Sand Addiction - August 2007 - (Page 8) Editor’s Mumble Talk about a long day. It is now 5:30 on Saturday morning in Bullhead, AZ. I headed out at about 8 o’clock last night for just a normal weekend in the water. Well, a three-and-a-half-hour drive turned into a nine-hour drive. This extended version could have been cut down by at least three hours if I had been better prepared. Between Ludlow and Needles my boat trailer popped a tire. Not a big deal, right? Just take off the old and put on the new. Unfortunately, I didn’t have a spare. So my next thought was to call AAA and get it handled. Well, they pretty much told me my best option was to leave the boat, hang out till the morning, and find a tire shop. I’m in the middle of freaking nowhere, it’s past midnight, and everything is closed. I’m pretty peaked by now. Publisher Editor Sales EDITORIAL Editor-in-Chief Creative Director Web & Graphics Office Manager Advertising Director Account Manager Contributing Editor Contributing Editor Contributing Editor Contributing Editor Dane King / Nick McFayden Charlene Bower Marci Gornall Dane King Cody Fletcher Nick Nicholls Heidi Clary Stacy Rye Nick McFayden Melanie Yumul Mike Lasher Jeff Beckley Shari Tatman-Scholte My sister’s and brother-in-law’s house is a little more than an hour away in Bullhead. He has his boat there and I was pretty sure the tires where similar. So, I opted to drop the boat, drive like the wind, take his spare tire, and head back. I know what you’re thinking, “Leave the boat, are you crazy?!” I thought this out; there weren’t many people on the road; it was dark so, by the time someone sees the boat, they would have already passed it; and what are my chances of a person that just so happens to have a spare tire that fits and is a thief? Off I went. I reached the house only to find out that the spare tire had a lock and chain around it. My sockets were too big to fit the ones that were on the trailer and there were no tools at the house. My next thought was to go buy some tools and jack one of my brother-in-law’s trailer tires. So… what’s open at 2 o’clock in the morning that has tools? That’s right, Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart had what I needed and everything continued as planned. I got the tire and headed back. Now to find a boat in the middle of nowhere that is as dark as it can possibly be. The good news is that it wasn’t that hard to find the boat. I marked the location on the Nav system in the truck and it took me right to it. I found the boat, got it all dialed in, and I was back on the road. I think it was around 4 a.m. when I was back on the move. Then, to top it all off, I was about 20 minutes from my final destination when I see a bunny on the road. I slow down, but not fast enough and I end up catching it in one of the tires and the carcass gets spread all over the boat. I definitely could have done without that. I was already mentally drained and now I’m depressed because I have to wipe a bunny off the boat. Advertising Information Please contact Charlene Bower at 909-794-4601 or e-mail charlene@pgimedia.net Subcription Help: 1-800-395-7760 HAVE YOU MOVED? Please notify us of any change of address. All subscriptions correspondence should be addressed to PO Box 461389, Escondido, CA 92046 or visit www.sandaddiction.com Sand Addiction Magazine, Volume #4, Issue #6, Jun/Jul 07 is published bimonthly by Platinum Global, Inc, (PGI Media). Newsstand exclusively distributed by Curtis Circulation Company, LLC, New Milford, New Jersey. All rights reserved. Nothing in this magazine may be reprinted in whole or in part without express written permission of the publisher. 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