Camping “fun”
Wow, long time since I’ve updated this page.
We went camping over 4th of July week-end. Left the house about 11:00 AM to meet my brother Gabe and his family at the campsite at about 12:30. At about 12:15, literally 2 miles from the campground, we were hit by a little old lady driving a Ford Taurus. She was trying to pull onto the highway from a little general store, and apparently didn’t see the bright black minivan with roof-top carrier and bike rack barreling toward her at 40 MPH. She pulled out quickly and hit us square on the right rear side of our van, sending us sliding sideways in the road. Bringing forth the knowledge gleaned from many years of watching Dukes of Hazard every Friday night, I was able to bring the slide under control quickly, and after Kathy and I determined everyone was OK, we exchanged information and called our respective insurance companies (is there any one left in America that doesn’t carry a cell phone with them at all times?)
Camping was great fun, we all had a blast.
The following week, we took the van to her insurance company’s adjuster. He stopped counting damage when he reached $3300. They estimated our van’s value at around $2900. Since the van still drove just fine (I had removed the bent piece of body trim that was rubbing the tire, replaced both rear tires with new rubber, and installed new glass and vacuumed out the shattered cubes of safety glass), we decided to keep it. After deducting their salvage value, and adding the DMV paperwork fees, her insurance company gave us a check for $2602.
Add comment August 3rd, 2003