Oct
02
2010

Mission Cottonwood - Fail

Thanks To Quicktrip

(Add / View Comments) (0)Saturday, October 2, 2010 - 07:30:45 pm
(Posted Under: This Desert Life This Desert Life)
So today was supposed to be spent up in Cottonwood - up in Northern Arizona once again. Today to see Tramps & Thieves and Stephen Ashbrook. Yes, the Gin Blossoms were billed. No, we weren't going to stay for them.

Despite the late night last night, everything was going to well to plan. I got my ass out of bed very easily, didn't putz around, and we got out on the road in a decent amount of time. Given our tire pressure concerns last week, I decided that we should top off the tires before getting out on the road. Preferably with free air, unlike absolutely every place we tried in Prescott. We first went to the Quick Trip on Baseline, and spent a bit of time before discovering their air pump was fucked.

So we went over to the one on Priest. A little behind on time now, but still doing okay. Over here, things didn't go much better. Actually, they went much worse. Unbeknown to us, this air pump was also fucked - but rather than just not filling up the tire, it was letting air out. Of course, we didn't realize this until too late. Too late being the front right tire being at around 10 PSI - otherwise known as virtually flat! This left us in a position of having to call roadside assist, and wait for them to arrive.

The "within the hour" ETA wasn't pleasing, but I still had some hope that we'd be able to get it sorted out, and not miss too much of Tramps & Thieves set. We waited around inside Quick Trip, basically to get out of the Phoenix desert heat. Though, it wasn't really that much cooler inside. As the time got past midday, my hopes of making it to Cottonwood were fading fast.

In the end, roadside assist showed up a little after 1pm, and technically not "within the hour". And of course, it took 5 minutes to inflate the tire! But all hope of getting to Cottonwood at this point were gone. We could have still gone to see Stephen, but a 2 hour trip there (and back) just for that seemed kinda ridiculous, especially since he's playing Martini Ranch soon. So we gave up, and limped off to our auto place, to get the oil changed, and have them check all of the tire pressures.

But y'know, not all was lost - at least Emmett hadn't called with a confirmation on getting us on the guest list. At least we didn't have to have the uncomfortable conversation about not being able to make it. Of course, right before we got to the auto shop, five minutes before they were going on, I got that call. Great! [wink]

Anyways, there was a wait to have the car looked at, so we cut all our losses and went over to Four Peaks for lunch. That was the saving grace of the afternoon. Nice lunch, I tried the Beer Bread Meatball Sandwich, which is arguably the first time I've tried something different at Four Peaks. It was definitely a great day for eating out over there.
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