Shopping Interrupted

We were reading some travel brochures of the area and Carole was intrigued by the brochure about Jackson Street in the town of Harlingen . . . an historic old downtown area with a lot of restored buildings known for lots of neat shops including home decorating stores, antique shops, and art galleries. Carole's kind of place!

So off we went to get Carole her "shopping fix" for the week. She immediately located an antique store, but when I parked and turned off the Blazer, it sounded strange. I tried to re-start it, but the battery was dead.

A dead battery didn't slow Carole down. She went into the antique shop while I called Good Sam Emergency Road Service, then waited outside until they arrived to jump start the Blazer. Carole found a couple of hammered aluminum serving trays which she felt she could not live without.

With the Blazer running and Carole's new trays in hand, we set out to find a store to have the battery checked. As I suspected, it was shot, so we had a new battery installed at AutoZone.

Back on the road, Carole was too "bummed out" to return to Jackson Street to resume her shopping, so with our "Shopping Interrupted", we left Harlingen and returned to "The Bus" . . . but at least with a couple of new serving trays, Carole had her "shopping fix" which should hopefully last her for a few days.