Hello from the NJ Turnpike!! Don't worry Kevin is driving. We're on our way home after a nice dinner with friends and some grocery shopping at Wegman's.

Update (1am): Well, things turned interesting after I finished posting. We got through the Turnpike, over the GW Bridge, when coming down the bridge ramps, Kevin realized that his clutch was no longer engaging. The pedal basically went down and didn't come back up. We stopped and put on the flashers. Kevin quickly assessed the situation and hopped out so he could push the car through an intersection and onto a safer part of the road.

Once we got to our new position, Kevin assessed again what was wrong and it was quickly apparent that we needed a tow. So while Kevin called his brother in the hopes that he was home and able to drive out and meet us, I looked up tow truck numbers. After Kevin dealt with a false start, I got through to the emergency line for the service station that typically does all of our car maintenance. We got someone through that who said it would be about 45 minutes.

Fortunately the car was still running fine so we had heat and didn't have to freeze. Kevin's brother and friend showed up after about half an hour, so we could transfer our groceries to their car. About 20 minutes later the tow truck showed up. We followed the truck back to the service station and profusely thanked the guy for rescuing us. Then Kevin's bro dropped us and our groceries off at home and we profusely thanked him for helping us out.

So now it is a little after 1am, our groceries are put away. We're both a bit wired from the experience, so I'm blogging and Kevin's playing some games on his phone. Keep your fingers crossed that the car problem is minor (for most of December Kevin's car was at the service station because he needed the speedometer replaced which could only be done by sending the parts to California, where they were fixed and sent back, but didn't work, and so had to travel back and forth again. A few things Kevin quickly read online suggested that sometimes clutches can have rusting problems if they aren't used regularly. We did have that huge snow storm while Kevin's car was at the service station. So hoping for just some rust that can be easily fixed, and not a major repair!!)