Traveling to Washington: Sure Hate to Break Down Here

A normal venture from Traverse City to Washington takes close to 10 hours…Our season opening bus trip took close to 16…The plan was to arrive in Washington in the morning so we could rest all day before the game…Well, while driving outside of Toledo, the bus stalled on the highway…Most were fast asleep but woke up when the bus began to coast…Mitzie, our bus driver, attempted to restart on more than one occasion only to get it going for a few moments before shutting down again…Mitzie was able to maneuver the buss off an exit and into a parking lot where we waited for assistance as she called around at 4am…Assistance did not arrive until shortly before 6am…Cahill, Kira (The trainer), and I walked over to the nearby Fairfield Inn to grab some food…Upon return the bus was running as the problem had been diagnosed, but we had to drive to the garage a mile or two away…There we sat until near 10am before beginning our adventure again and arriving in Washington about 2:30pm…The reason for taking so long at the shop was that they needed the parts to arrive…Apparently a hose had a leak in it that caused the system to send a warning signal to the bus and shut down the engine…That was way over my head, but I, as did some of the players, was able to sleep while the bus was getting worked on…There is still no such thing as good sleep on a bus and I’m looking forward to sleeping in on Sunday…