Saturday
I've reached the point that I no longer know where I am! John couldn't remember what our hotel room number was!!!
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Used our $20 credit towards dinner. Great bartender, a great believer in doom and gloom.
We left at 9:30 planning on getting an early brunch on the road. It was rainy and heavy traffic until we got through Chicago.
Monday April 8 Toledo OH
Monday Mural taken in Las Vegas March 2024.
John slept until 10:30!! We ended up having grilled cheeses in the hotel.
Tuesday time to head home. Breakfast was terrible in the hotel. $4 for cold coffee. Nothing on the continental menu available. We ended up with scrambled eggs (okay), bacon (greasy) home fries.
The bridge is one of the few privately owned US–Canada crossings; it was owned by Grosse Pointe billionaire Manuel Moroun, until his death in July 2020, through the Detroit International Bridge Company in the United States and the Canadian Transit Company in Canada. In 1979, when the previous owners put it on the New York Stock Exchange and shares were traded, Moroun was able to buy shares, eventually acquiring the bridge. The bridge carries 60 to 70 percent of commercial truck traffic in the region.
Wednesday was a sunny brisk day and we only went for the groceries we needed. I made a pot of vegetable soup from my freezer stock and added a can of chickpeas.
Thursday rainy and miserable as John set out for the car dealership. I picked up some essentials and then spent 3 THREE TRES hours on the phone with Telus, our cell phone providers.
Okay, it was two hours on a chat with the most stubborn or least empowered service agent I ever encountered. My issue - when we entered the States they sent me a text and email offering my $80 PPU Easy Roam for 30 days which I accepted as otherwise the charge is $15 per phone a day!!
Our bill was $700!!! I explained that I believed the offer applied to both phones as it is one account. John had been charged daily roaming fees.
She countered that it was a "special" offer only to "selected" phone numbers and proceeded to use a lot of corporate gobbledygook like "as a consumer myself" and how much the poor corporation had to paying to the roaming networks blah blah. I told her I didn't care. My issue was a badly worded "offer". She offered me $30, "the best she could do and would be dinged for it, but I was a valuable customer".....
When I said I wasn't satisfied she finally offered to get a Loyalty agent. She set up the call, Maximo spent ten minutes with me to ensure he understood my issue, he did. Then said he would call me back when he reviewed the documentation. He called back about an hour later, said he fully agreed with me and would issue a $360 credit and charge me the $80 for John's roaming.
So I made a $100 an hour while doing other things during the chat and waiting for phone calls.
We got unpacked and one load of laundry done.
Friday rainy and foggy. John used the golf simulator. I had planned to get a hair cut but will wait until Monday. I ran out for some weekend items, lemons, limes, turnip, half and half, red onion and Brussel sprouts as a substitution.
It is the Masters this week so John was glued to that.
COOKING
Saturday Naperville Caesar salad with steak and fries - best steak on this trip
Sunday Toledo cheeses and crackers
Monday Toledo Spaghetti Warehouse
Tuesday HOME! curry chicken.
Wednesday potato chip crusted halibut and broccolini
Thursday lamb chops, mashed potatoes and broccolini
Friday steak with onions, green peppers and mushrooms, chimichurri
WATCHING
We started American Rust season two. It features a favourite actor of mine, Maura Tierney (The Affair).
READING
I finished The Only Suspect, it is a slow build up with lots of twists, but the main one blew me away!
I started I Invited Her In.
2024 Road Trip
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