03/06/08, 10:45pm…Windchill returns home…

March 6th, 10:45pm: Well it was a long, arduous journey back. The hoped for peaceful, uneventful return trip was anything but. After having to buy two new tires and rims this week for the trailer and installing late this afternoon before leaving Anoka, I hit a bump on the way back and it shattered the leaf spring. Of course this apparently can only happen in the cold when you have aren’t dressed for it (it’s 0 right now as I write this) so there alongside the road Rachael and I had to tie up the remains of the spring so it wouldn’t drag and drive back at 10mph. After laying on the cold ground tying that thing up, 10mph with a heater going wasn’t so bad. The trailer’s currently abandoned on the edge of town similar to how they had to ditch the lunar capsule or whatever that was on Apollo 13…

BUT – the good news is that as of 9:30pm this evening Windchill was returned home to Raindance. It felt good to turn into the driveway knowing that after such a long journey and all its accompanying adventure and mishaps, he was finally back where he belongs. I know there are a lot of people waiting and watching, wanting to know when Windchill came home so I’m going to post this now to let you all know.