Christmas time for us
means hitting the road…about 800 miles of it!
We’re headed down to Charlotte, NC to spend the holiday with Brett’s
family, so you might notice that I Heart NY Y’all may become I Heart NC Y’all
for a little bit.
Since we’re
practically blood relatives of Clark Griswold, it’s no surprise that our
Christmas Vacation has only had one bump in the road…so far.
About an hour outside of Charlotte, the
weather conditions turned foggy and visibility dropped. We were just driving along our merry little
way when-BAM-we hit a huge alligator in the road! Oh, I forget…y’all don’t call them alligators
up here. Ok, it wasn’t a real alligator
(but that does happen sometimes…usually in Florida) it was a huge tractor trailer tire!
Brett was able to swerve the Prius at the
last minute and managed to avoid hitting it head on, but clipped it with the
passenger side bumper and it went under our little tire. It did not sound good.
When we pulled over,
it looked even worse.
There were tons of
wires hanging off the wheel well and the bumper had seen better days. Fortunately, the airbags didn’t deploy and no
one was injured. The NCHP was great to
take a report and went out to look for the piece of tire blocking the road.
Our new New York
insurance Geico hooked us up with an appointment for repair with a Charlotte
body shop, so it looks like we’ll be all fixed up by the time we have to head
home. Flow, the Caveman and the Gecko
can duke it out over the $500 deductible were gonna have to fork over for this
little boo-boo.
The last time we
drove to Charlotte, we had a little car v. deer incident so this is probably
our last cross-country trip for a while.
The new Southwest merger with AirTran couldn’t come soon enough for
us! We’ll take two tickets from ALB to
CLT direct please!
