Living and laughing with a disability - cerebral palsy; ordinary life, extraordinary circumstances.

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Where's the diesel?

We drove Jet White down from Gresham to Anahiem. We arrived last night after two days of driving. We spent Sunday night at a nice Best Western in Lodi. We were on the Santa Ana Freeway (I-5) nearing Anahiem when our fuel gage hit empty.


We exited the freeway and we were in Norwalk, CA, searching for diesel. We found a few gas stations, but none had diesel. Most of the station attendents here are Spanish speaking, but we were eventually directed to a station with a diesel pump. We found it. It was full of cars. To get to the diesel pump from the one street I would have had to drive over a curb. I had to go around a large block to get in. We were only allowed 15 gallons, but it got us back on the road.


Did I mention that we were all hot and irritable? That made our adventure even more fun!


The attendent did not understand my request for directions to I-5. I should have said the Santa Ana.


We eventually found I-5, missed the exit for CA-90, turned around, and made our way to our motel in Anahiem Hills.

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