(exit 31A off I270 Southbound, fredrick, MD)

i wish i'd taken a photo of the front of the car, which was covered in black goo that exploded out from under the hood in a violent eruption as we caravanned (caravaned?) back towards the city from the farm. up till that point, it had been an absolutely lovely day of fun things with the girls. nasa rockets, road trip car games, horses and carrots and berry picking.

then disaster struck. fortunately, we were calm and lucky. after a series of misadventures wherein alfonso, jasmine, and nia spent one hour in the toyota on what was supposed to be a 3 minute bathroom run trying to get back to the offramp where i was sitting on my broken down studebaker, we were finally reunited just in time for the arrival of the tow truck.

we weren't sure what happened, but it turns out the thermostat got stuck and the radiator spewed its disgusting black guts all over my pretty white car.

but it was all good sunday fun.