Going On The Road with Monte & Rose

August 19, 2014

Wilmore, KY

The reason we came to Wilmore was for me to meet and for Monte to get reacquainted with friends he hadn’t seen in 16 years. Bob and Jill had been members of the same church Monte and his wife, Ellen attended when they were all young with small children. The two families became very good friends. Bob and Jill moved to Wilmore so Bob could attend the seminary school.

In the short time I had spent with Bob and Jill last night, when they invited us in for pizza, I began to feel like I had known them a long time. I also met Bob’s 91 year old father Paul who lives nearby and comes for dinner a few times a week. Paul had worked for Chrysler for many years and offered to follow Monte over to the dealer in the morning so they could look at our truck because Monte said it was making a swooshing sound.

Monte left before 8am, following Paul, to the local Dodge Chrysler Dealer a few miles away, in Nicholasville. When he arrived at the service center, he was informed that they would not be able to check out the truck until tomorrow. Paul and Monte walked around the lot with a salesman who showed Monte a few brand new trucks. Just for “fun”, the salesman worked up a price order confirmation. To be able to give a quote on a trade in for our truck, they had to evaluate the value of the truck. So all of a sudden they had time today to diagnose what was causing the swooshing sound.

It turned out that the problem was a crack in the boost hose that would cost around $250 to fix.

The final total on the cost of a new dually truck with all the bells and whistles was reduced by $20,000 after the $12,500 trade in value of our truck, available rebates and Paul’s friends and family discount was applied.

When Paul dropped Monte off, he filled me in on all the details. After a pros and cons discussion we decided it just wasn’t the right time to make such a big ticket item purchase so Monte called the service department to okay the repair.

After lunch we took a ride to Nicholasville because I wanted to pick up a couple of items in Walmart. But first we stopped at a wine and spirit store. Kentucky does not sell wine in grocery stores.

We really enjoyed the ride into town past green pastures and rolling hills

To our surprise, we discovered that Walmart has a walk-in clinic. Monte has been suffering with what we guessed was a sinus infection for a couple of months. Being stubborn about going to a clinic he has been miserable. When he inquired about the cost at the clinic he found out it wouldn’t cost him anything because he has Medicare. He was diagnosed with acute sinusitis and prescribed Augmentin.

While the prescription was being filled, we got a call that the truck was ready so we picked it up. Monte didn’t have his GPS in the truck so he had to follow me back to the Walmart to pick up the prescription and then back to where our rig is parked.

As a thank you for providing electric to us, we invited Bob and Jill out to dinner at a restaurant of their choosing.

The route Bob took to the restaurant took us on a winding road with hairpins turns past beautifully green manicured lawns.

The restaurant Bob chose, the Beaumont Inn Owl’s Nest, is one of those quant little out of the way places and a nice change of pace from a chain restaurant.