Have you ever broken down in the middle of a long road trip?

I'm confused

Emotionally?

Yes. One in the middle of nowhere Utah and once in the Middle of nowhere colorado.

I called AAA

Road trip one time and my alternator failed. Thought it was battery at first, got jump, it failed later on. We were heading to San Antonio and it was getting late.

I hitch hiked to the next town, found a garage, bought an alternator. Went to a Walmart bought a socket set. Hitch hiked back to the car. (buddies just got high waiting for me to come back) I changed alternator on the side of I-10 and was back on the road in less than three hours after break down.

Had much better breakdown stories from growing up with the RVs. One time we had a water pump fail 50 miles from the nearest town. Another time a RV fuel line leaked and caught fire and we burned a good bit of the Grand Teton forest down. Then drove back from Wyoming in a rental car.


Last break down was current truck, bought it in Boulder. It had a bad battery. I had to walk a mile to a walmart and back both times carrying a battery.

I can do anything short of pulling a motor on side the road.

I was on an 8 hour drive last weekend. Gave me time to reflect about a lot of things. Had a good cry.

Yes, one time I was driving to California when I saw a sign in Scottsdale that said "Bras 50% OFF!"

I was so disappointed when I found out they were talking about pricing that it took me several minutes to collect myself and get back on the road.

From Ak to New Mexico- not really broke down but we had to stop in Yukon and in Wyoming- alternator and ck engine lite

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Couple of days later she saw on the news that some girl like 5 minutes from where she broke down got abducted that night and was brutally raped and murdered on a deer meat processing machine, or something like that. Lucky it wasn't her.

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Understate much brah?

Broke down in Montgomery, Al and then got robbed at gunpoint. frick that place!

When I was moving from PA to FL, the car broke down just south of DC. It was in the afternoon and I was lucky in that I was close to an interstate exit. I made it off the highway and then found a shop a few blocks from the exit. They worked on it until about 7 or 8 pm and then figured out that they needed a part they didn't have (fuel filter if I remember right). Parts stores were closed by then of course. So they took us to a hotel and said they'd get on it first thing in the morning when they could get the part they needed. We were back on the road before noon. We still had a long drive ahead because the movers were going to be at the new house the next day. So we had to get from DC to Tallahassee in a day but we made it.

tl;dr I wasn't a boss but the mechanic that fixed the car damn sure was.

Another time right after I graduated from LSU, I was living in Houston and drove back to BR for the Carlotta St. Halloween party. Started to overheat west of LC. I opened the hood and could see I was leaking coolant but it wasn't gushing out. I just happened to have most of a gallon of antifreeze so I poured that in. At the next rest stop added more water and filled up the jug. Had to stop pretty often to add more water from the jug and then replenish that when I'd get to a rest stop. Limped like that all the way to BR, stopping at every rest stop along the way. What had happened was that the water inlet had cracked so I found somebody to braze it and I was good to go again.