This will be short. We were up early, said goodbye for our neighbors and were on the road about 9:30. Our destination for today was Zaragoza for two reasons. We had not visited it on our previous trips, and it had a brand new Costco to visit. We are still on the hunt for new tires for François and we were hoping this brand new Costco would have doors that he could fit in to change tires.
The drive over was smooth though a little more expensive than we hoped for. It looks like the Spanish are catching up to the French for the cost of toll roads. We found the brand new Costco on the edge of Zaragoza and headed straight for the fuel station. This was the cheapest fuel we have seen in years and was 40cents a liter less than we have paid anywhere in the last two years. That translated into €30 savings on a tank of fuel.
Ton kept me from making a disastrous mistake. In the US diesel fuel pumps have green handles and gas have black handles, these colors are reversed in Spain. I had the green handled filler for gas in the fill spout for François and was about to turn on the pump when Ton came flying over and intervened before I started, putting gas in a diesel engine would have caused a tow, and a lengthy stay in a garage to purge the system and change all of the filters. I am going to have to pay more attention going forward.
Unfortunately, it looks like none of the Costco’s in Europe are going to be able to take François but the guy at the tire center gave us a tip for a RV place that does tires so we will swing in there Monday and see if we have any luck. We spent the next hour happily perusing Costco and we now have a bunch of Spanish goodies in our cupboards.
Wonder if our text connection isn’t working this trip? I’ve sent three different texts with no response. It’s okay if you were just trying to ignore me but want to know that our comsac is operational.
Sorry for the miscommunication. Your texts are coming around bedtime for me, and then I forget to reply in the morning. I will get on my game from now on.