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more adventures!!!

This morning we woke up early to take the car to a local garage before everything was closed for the 4th. It was 7am. We got the car in and the guy replaced the fuel filter but thought it could also be the fuel pump but we'd have to go back to Wichita to the Volvo dealer. We decided that it was the filter and decided to move forward if it still was bad, we were hoping to go north to a Volvo dealer in Colorado Springs. We made it almost 200 miles before it conked out just before Dodge City, KS. We actually found a garage that was able to test the fuel pump and it turns out that is the problem. The mechanic didn't think he could get a fuel pump even after the 5th. P was so frusturated by that time, we found a car rental place and were lucky enough to get a minivan because the people that reserved it didn't show up by their deadline. She got it for a week so we're going to take it when we go to AZ and Las Vegas where it's hot and we're not going camping. Once we return the minivan to Dodge City we're going back to CO and heading up to northern Colorado and camping. I want to see the Celestial Seasonings factory and the Rocky Mountains. We'll go home via the Black Hills and see the heads (Mount Rushmore and etc) and stop by my families "reunion" near Brookings, SD.

Tomorrow is P's birthday !!!