The Monday before this one (before I fell ill) I discovered a Check Engine Light lighting up my life. I went to AutoZone to see what the code was – “Low Emmisions leak – very small.” This is apparently the infamous Mazda6 “loose gas cap” code – so I decided not to do anything about it until my next oil change/service (in a few weeks). Yesterday – the CEL vanished.
Good thing too – it was bugging me that I was going to drive to San Diego today with a CEL (“very small” or not).
On Saturday we woke up dark and early before the sun in order to catch our Uber to LAX before 7am. We were flying southwest and had checked in the day before right at the buzzer, the instant we were allowed to, but still ended up in C group. When we finally lined up we […]
Our train arrived in Paris after sunset and we tried to use the “easy” subway system we experienced in London and Brussels but were quickly stymied by a glitchy machine that wouldn’t keep English selected past the initial screen. Kind of a problem for figuring out what to buy. Belgium even had a guy walking […]
We reached Brussels before sunset, perfect for checking out the Bourse Christmas Market. We’d picked the right lodging in some ways and the worst in others. The hotel was right next to the market and the hub of the city, but it was also somehow very loud at night with clanging and banging and strange […]
