I have heard it said that the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. I am sure this is a sage saying and one that I truly believe. Really, if you don’t step out, you will go nowhere.
Our journey to Nogales was not a thousand miles, but significant nonetheless. We started out on Sunday after church, planning to go as far as we could before we got tired or some other impediment got in our way.
Tiredness set in about St. George and we finally stopped in Mesquite for the night. We got up and ate breakfast to go on our way to Nogales that day. We got outside of Las Vegas and were just entering Boulder City (and over the Hoover dam) when our car stopped running turning a corner toward the dam.
I was able to pull the car over to the side and restart it, when I noticed the check engine light had turned on. We drove to a gas station to check it out and determined after visiting a auto parts store that we needed to have Nissan look at it.
We returned to Las Vegas to a dealership on that side of the town. There they told us we could get it fixed, but not until the next morning. We realized we weren’t going anywhere so left it for the night and holed up in LV.
We finally got back on the road the following day (Tuesday) and arrived in Nogales safe and sound. We did arrive later than we had hoped, but we did arrive.
This sort of messed up our schedule for our stay in Arizona, but we were glad that the car had a problem so close to a large city and not out in the Northern Arizona desert.
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