Thursday we are headed to Arlington National Cemetery. Three lanes of traffic doing the stop and go thing for miles and “bink” the low air pressure light comes on. No berms, few ramps, and aggressive traffic everywhere. Finally get off the expressway and into a residential area to survey the tires. All seem OK. Well it is cooler that it has been for months so maybe it is just one a little low. A quick stop at a station to put $1.50 in a pump and all is well. Turns out all were a little low but one was at 27. So back on our way, into the fray. It really should not take over an hour to go 19 miles!!!

Today our plan was to visit the Goddard Space Center. All loaded up and “click” nothing. The battery is done. Not many people around in camp who are up and the car has the motorhome parked in so the jumper won’t reach from the motorhome to the car. Pulled a battery out of the trailer to use for a jump start. Lynn did some research while I got the car started and it is off for a new battery. Ordered the new battery online with pickup in the store. When I arrived, they said “Oh we don’t have any in inventory and won’t until Tuesday”. As I was giving him grief for why I could buy it and drive straight there to pickup and not get one, the manager corrected him and pointed out my battery sitting there ready and waiting. With a not so quick change in the parking lot we were on our way. It certainly could have been worse. It could have happened yesterday when we were miles back in a Wildlife Refuge or while we were in town. At least we were lucky even if the MegaMillions remains unclaimed.