Rough Sledding ... Friday 17th May 2013
Some days most things go smoothly, other days not much goes
right. Sadly, today was one of the
later. We set off to go visit
Jamestown. As we arrived in the National
Park, we got a little confused about the location of the visitors center and
wound up doing two U-turns to go back past the signs. This really wouldn’t have been a big deal
except that as we passed the large lawn-mowing tractor, a piece of debris was
thrown up and hit the side of the car.
We came to a stop and hopped out to look. The result was a large ding several inches
long with a lot of paint removed. I’m
sure the rental car company is not going to be happy about that. We reported the damage to the National Park
Service. We had to be interviewed by a
ranger who took a statement. She seemed
to think that we were making this up.
Even if all goes smoothly we are probably looking at a three-way fight
between our insurance company, the National Park Service or mowing company
insurance and the rental company. After
leaving the parking lot at Jamestown visitors center, we had a flat tire. It appeared that there was a hole in the
sidewall of the rear tire, adjacent to the damaged door. We speculated that the tire was damaged by
whatever hit the car door. The
“temporary spare” wasn’t going to be adequate for the rest of our trip so Mike
went to a tire place to find out if the tire can be repaired or needs to be
replaced. What an ordeal. I don’t think I’ll have many happy memories
of Jamestown.
Gloria
Car door scrape - we took the photo for factual purposes but quite like it as an abstract
Sad to read of your ordeal. I love Jamestown and the 'dig'. Hope you found some redeeming quality .
ReplyDeleteHi Charlotte, It was lovely down by the water and very interesting to wander around. The archeology museum was fascinating. It's just we were all a bit bummed out over the incident with the car.... I'm sure we'll get over that and remember the good parts!
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