We were excited for our big road trip to Anaheim for the 3-day long America’s Best Food event. We had to prepare what we needed to bring as far as chocolate goes, so we were up until midnight on Wednesday packaging bars and putting them in the coolers. In total, we had five coolers and a couple of bags for table displays and such.
At 4am we were on the road.
My assistant and I were quite tired from the night before but we were excited for what was in store for us. With five CDs in the CD player and two bags of snacks in the car, we were on our way. Danna slept most of the time which left me a little restless. As we were driving on I-5 I thought that the monotony of 250 miles of straight driving on a two-lane highway was the worst that could happen; but apparently not! As we approached the Grapevine just outside of LA, our car decided to shut down. I revved the engine, but the car kept going slower and slower until we found ourselves on the shoulder.
The noon sun was slowly rising and it was turning out to be as hot as Spring Break in Mexico. And we had five coolers filled with chocolates! My insurance insisted that I find out our exact location before she dispatched a tow truck. After 20 minutes on the phone trying to figure out our location, Danna pressed the ‘help’ button on our newly bought Tom Tom/GPS (I guess someone should have read the instructions.) and told us exactly where we were.
About a half an hour later, the tow truck came and drove us 97 miles to Anaheim. Here’s our car sitting pretty on top of the tow truck bed.
I hate road trips!
Marcus said,
August 21, 2008 at 3:49 am
Cranky American car! I rented an American car that broke down too, like yours. Hope you safely made it to the show!
Aubrey Mendoza said,
August 21, 2008 at 7:17 am
Good thing you had a TomTom!
tom said,
December 18, 2008 at 6:05 pm
your blog came up when I googled my name plus america’s best food plus chocolates. i thot your chocolates were interesting-especially the red bar! so different, almost not like chocolate.