They got around to getting started about 9 am.
At least they served a free breakfast.
Pam went and did some more shopping. Then she came back to pick up Lon to go to lunch. The vaguely suggested completed time of around 12 to 1 looked very much in doubt.
We looked for a restaurant and found this place by accident.
Turns out that it was featured on Guy Fieri's; Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. It was packed. They had a blues artist playing. We could really relate, we had the blues.
Back to the repair garage for more waiting. At 2 pm, Tim finally came and said "good news, bad news". The left side was done and that was the main culprit. It took so long because of the rusted condition of the lower ball joint which was close to seizing. He offered to let us go and take the new right side parts with us for future installation or we could have them finish it up doing the right side. We opted to have them do the right side as long as we were here, they had the parts and tools. No sense kicking the can down the road. Besides if we stay here much longer we can go next door and watch the Utah Jazz play. When does the NBA season start?
We took this as another good sign.
Then Tim came in and said it'd be just another 5 minutes or so. I went to settle up the bill and found where the end of all those rainbows were - at the cashiers office - and the gold wasn't ours. Well, it used to be. While Pam appeared quite content, it was finally time to roll.
We departed SLC at 5:30 pm in a rush hour traffic jam for Moab to catch up with J,G&H. It rained most of the way. Night fell with no moon and overcast, winding, twisting, mountain roads and no street lights. We arrived exhausted at 10:45 but happy to be on the road again.
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