6 September 2012 — Thursday
Steve’s report on Donna’s take-off today:
Donna is up and at ’em at 6:06 this morning, taking off with friend Bob, who flew in from Columbus, Ohio two days ago. They left at 7:10.
A little excitement getting going. The Toyota Avalon wasn’t starting quite right, despite a thorough once-over by our trusted, longtime mechanic and a make-sure trip to Toyota’s service department. We finally called Toyota’s service manager a week ago, and after 36 hours they found the problem. They took a week to fix everything, complicated by the Labor Day holiday. We picked up the car at 2pm, which blew the trial packing Donna had wanted to do over the weekend. Talk about down to the wire!
Toyota replaced the fuel regulator, fuel filter and fuel pump. To replace the pump, they remove the battery. So yesterday when I came home at 4pm, the satellite radio didn’t work. Three calls to Sirius but no luck. So 90 minutes later, I finally find a paper that tells how to reset it — 45 days on the road and no tunes is not a good way to start. I fixed the satellite radio, we packed the car and got a good night’s sleep.
The 66 Trip Blast-off this morning was a piece of cake.