Kate Taylor's Yoga Site

We finally kicked off our road trip on Monday afternoon, beginning what we hope will be several weeks of exploration from Savannah to North Dakota.  We have two known destinations – Reiserstown, Maryland for a Qigong conference and then on to Towner, North Dakota, where we need to pick our pups up from “doggie summer camp.” I need to be back in Savannah by August 27^th so I can catch a plane out to Redlands for Labor Day weekend, but other than that, we don’t have many constraints.

Since we ended up leaving 4 days later than planned, we decided to bee-line it up to the Durham/Chapel Hill area the first day.  About 150 miles into the trip, we heard a thunk and the car lost all its get-up-and-go.  After experimenting with the acceleration a bit, Brad decided that the Turbo on our beloved Volvo had given out. Our trusty iPhone allowed me to Google for Volvo dealers in the area and we figured out there was one in Chapel Hill. Bingo. We crossed our fingers and kept on driving, arriving in time for dinner, but having missed my first planned yoga class at Ride the Breath.

We had a great meal at The Lantern in downtown Chapel Hill, and then headed over to our “Hotwired” hotel room for some sleep. We decided that getting the car fixed was our first priority so I decided to do my practice in our hotel room and then head up to the dealer by 8:00 am. We drove up the highway a few times looking for the dealer and kept wondering why we couldn’t find it. Then I noticed what looked like a lot “formerly known as” the Crown Volvo dealership – and indeed it was – the dealership had closed less than a month earlier.

We ended up driving over to Cary and dropped the car off at the dealer there and walked over to a place the service manager recommended for breakfast. After about an hour the car was fixed (under warranty!) and we were back on the road, with Turbo. Next destination:  Satchidananda Ashram in Buckingham, VA, a.k.a. Yogaville.