Next Thursday (9/24), I’ll be riding shotgun on a trip from South Florida to Alexandria, VA in a ’94 Jeep Wrangler. The last two attempts had to be aborted when the vehicle balked at the exercise. My son, John, will occupy the driver’s seat. This is the first road trip we have undertaken together in more than twenty years. We will fly back from the DC area on Sunday.
My son, Morgan, bought the Jeep during his last visit over Labor Day weekend and had to return home sans vehicle when the voltage regulator failed. Lacking that control, the alternator delivered an excessive charge to the electrical system, which caused a fuse failure. Absent a complete charging circuit, the battery was slowly drained. That caused the engine to fail.
Our arrival in Alexandria will signal the beginning of a long weekend that will be limited to a father and his two sons, a once in a lifetime experience. Morgan left South Florida nearly 10 years ago when he went off to college in Orlando. After graduation, he made several moves as he went from St. Petersburg to Tallahassee and ultimately to Alexandria, where he has lived and worked for the past year.
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