So I started my trip about 1 month ago, escaping yet another snowstorm with a fantasy that I could somehow drive from Minneapolis to OK City in one day, even though I did not leave until 4pm. Clearly delusional I set out into the snow and drove for about 250 miles. Then I noticed a little red light flickering on Carvatti's instrument panel. Carvatti is my 1996 Volvo 850. She has about 140,000 miles and I had just charged her unreliable battery and added oil before I left. Now I watched as the little red light flickered on and off, finally staying on long enough for me to see it was my oil light!!! OOPS. Now I know that when the oil light comes on, it usually means you have NO OIL in the engine. Which means the engine can SEIZE UP, and you car in finished. Now luckily I was right near an exit, so I pulled into one of the many gas stations that has had the pleasure of taking my money and opened the hood---and guess what??? Bibeau had left the CAP OFF the engine...so the was freaking oil everywhere. I put in FIVE quarts! FIVE! Yes, highly annoying. Not to mention all the oil I had to wipe up from everywhere. (this oil later dripped onto my Uncle Norm's pristine driveway at the Gated Golf Course retirement community in Tuscon)
Then I came to terms with the fact that I was NOt going to make it to OK City in one night, no matter how much of Young Living's energy oil I sniffed. Nor was I about to try to sleep in Carvatti at a rest area--although I tried. So I slept at a Super 8 motel for 5 hours and ate a free waffle before taking off into yet another storm...
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