Chris here, in Chula Vista
Part of sustaining the missionary project in San Vicente (SV) is transpo. Transpo down to SV. Transpo back form SV. Transpo of things down to SV. Back-and-forth. It's 150 miles from our US house to SV, but because of the two-lane roads thru the mountains, the military check[points (and subsequent searches), the bad roads and the traffic, the drive can be 4 hours one-way... and I am part of the transpo loop for Lori going down there.
Oh, yeah, didn't mention the border at Tijuana, which is a tangled mess on a good day, and a 2-hour nightmare on an average day.
Now add into the mix that the current ministry-to-Mexico vehicle we can afford to keep is a 1995 Jeep Cherokee (like the pic) with 126,000 (but way more engine hours)... and it's developed a liking for stalling out when it heats up from long idles at the border... the mechanics have looked at it, and are baffled...
SO... last Saturday, after a mind-numbing hour of crawling thru Tijuana because every downtown street was tore up and diverted... we get to the San Ysidro border crossing... and even though we have Sentri passes, we were stuck in line, not moving for quite some time...
and the Jeep stalls out...
and no-where to push off to the side...
SO, I push, and Lori steers our stalled 95 Jeep up to the border guard...
who kindly checks our documentation, and says we can 'push thru' (thanks, brother!)
SO... push into the bay just inside the inspection station, pop the hood, wait 10 minutes, de-pressurize the fuel system, and VROOM! Starts like a champ!
Just a slice of the dusty, grindy, what-else-ya-gonna-do life of missions...
Praying for the twenty grand needed for a newer/highly dependable vehicle that will survive Baja and not strand us...
Chris
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