We spent rather a lot of the morning troubleshooting and hunting up mobile repair units (overnight, morning, and poking at it did not solve the problem. After many, many phone calls we got a vague, see you "late next week", a firm "see you Saturday", and a number of if you can drive it it, we can get to it around May 22nd (or 25th).
So feeling that we were not going to be stuck there forever, and with very gracious hosts, we got some work done and Maggie helped groom the horses.
I scheduled a Lyft way ahead of time for our next dinner appointment in Austin with the nephews, but the Lyft driver bailed on us, 10 minutes out. And then there were no more cars.
Earlier in the trip it was easy (and inexpensive) to rent a car when we didn\"t want to drag the RV around. This has changed. Rental cars, if available, are now expensive. It also turns out that "if available" mostly means not available. Try again in a week or two. Apparently during the plague, all the rental companies sold off lots of their fleets to raise cash, and now don\"t have cars, can\"t buy new ones (chip shortage limiting car production) and demand has soared....
This also applies to Uber and Lyft we have discovered. much harder to find and more expensive as lots of drivers left, and now suddenly there is great demand.
Still stuck in the front yard....
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