Blog Day Planner

Dusting the Pages of my Blog Day Planner

I’ve been offline for a month until yesterday, which is something an online writer never plans to see happen. There were extenuating circumstances in this case. My husband and I were stranded in the Santa Fe National Forest when our transmission went out.

We went to attend a peace and prayer assembly and made it to the 9000 foot elevation mountain top when it happened. For the last couple miles as we tried to ascend the mountain road, the van spewed and sputtered spilling out billows of black smoke through the tail pipe until it died in place. We managed to get it parked after several attempts. Frustrated, we left it there and walked about four miles to the gathering entrance.

A few days later we found a parking spot at the top of the hill with everyone else. Our friend Badger helped hold the spot while Raven hiked the few miles to the van hoping to bring it closer to where we were camped. At this point in time, we did not know the transmission was out. We believed the carburetor needed a major adjustment due to the high elevation.

The van fired up without too much trouble and started to climb the hill, but it died in the middle of the road unable to shift into lower gears to make the climb. Raven flagged down a passing motorist who towed our van with his SUV into the parking lot. Folks had to push the van into the actual parking spot and the realization hit home. Our transmission was out!

Here we were on the mountaintop without a transmission and without knowing how we would replace it or where the money would come from to buy another one. We didn’t even know how we would get to Albuquerque to find a transmission or if there were other mechanics to assist with the installation.

We spent an interesting month on the mountain. The good news is that we got another transmission, had it installed and drove off the mountain in our van.

There are other interesting stories to tell from our month long stay in the New Mexico mountains. Watch for those stories on my other blogs like The Midnight Writer or The Midnight Writer’s Journal or The Midnight Writer’s Freelance Quest. Till then, I have to roll up my sleeves and get busy on my blog planning. Want to get to work with me? Let’s swing into full action rocking the cybersphere with some fantastic blog improvement plans!

Have fun and keep on blogging.

The Midnight Writer

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