Well, folks, the travel blog is up and running again for a few weeks. On the 3rd of June we are departing from Sacramento to the green isle know as Ireland. We will be returning on the 2nd of July just in time for the 4th celebration. But, as usual, the travel imps had struck again.
For those of you who are regular readers of this blog, you will always see that the travel imps do something to make us a little uneasy, scared, angry, downright p*@!ed right before we plan on leaving to go any where. Let's preface this story by telling you that we had no idea that the imps were in waiting and if we didn't have so many places we go to and have vehicles at we never would have suspected anything wrong until the VERY LAST MINUTE! I'm talking about probably the night before we were to leave.
Anyway, we were busy getting clothing lists, itinerary, hotels, motorcycle rental, etc. together so that it would be a seamless trip. HA!!!! We keep a car (Karl's late aunt's car) stored in his cousin's barn up in WA so that when we are up there in the summer or if Karl had to go up there he/we would have transportation. Well, his cousin usually takes "the Beast" out once in a while and keeps the battery charged for us. This year they have been so busy themselves that they really didn't have time to do that so his cousin, Marilyn called and asked if Karl had any plans for the Beast. Ironically we were just talking about bringing the Beast down to CA so in case we needed a car that would fit 4 or more people. Our car only fits 2. So Karl decides to fly up to WA and pick up the Beast and drive her back down to CA. He makes his airline reservations, figures out what he will need to take, how long the trip will be to drive back, etc. Now this is around May 15/16 or so and he is flying out on the 19th. When we fly we always use our passports for ID instead of worrying about pulling out our licenses. He starts to pack a few things and he can't find his passport! We tear the house apart and can't find them anywhere. Panic sets in because we are leaving for overseas in 3 weeks! Immediately we wrack our brains on where we used them last and we both remember using them to fly to Texas, but can't remember seeing them after that. We did remember that we flew out of Phoenix to ABQ because our motorcycle was at the NM house. So we called a Blue Knight friend that lives in NM that watches our house and stores his camper trailer in our garage for the summer. We had that poor man go back 3 times to check places out that we thought the passports would be. Sometimes asking him to recheck places again. In the meantime, Karl takes off to WA and I start the process of getting an appointment to go to SF to get a new passport. He gets back from the drive and we start checking the CA house again for two days before we have to ride up to Boise for the Memorial Day weekend gathering of the Blue Knights. Our appointment was for 10:30am on the 29th of May. Since we were going down to SF to get them and they were on an expedite status each passport was going to cost us $190 - A PIECE! But there wasn't anything we could do. Now we are back from Boise, the 27th, and Karl thinks we packed them in a large plastic tub I keep for the afghans I crochet for the Children's Hospital, but it was emptied out already. Karl thinks he may have put them in a small make-up case we put his aunt's jewelry in and stored it in the gun safe. Nope, not there. Then as he is about to put the case back, he looks off to the side of the shelf and there, up against the side of the black safe, between some papers are the passports!
Now hopefully the travel imps are happy for causing us such grief and they will let us leave without any more problems.
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