Day 39 - On the hunt for a truck

Day 39 was “trying” to stay the leash. Ed came back and met us in the morning.
I explained our exit strategy and he was good enough to help us track down a suitable U – Haul truck and drove us to pick it up. It was not as easy as that. UHAUL had some surprises for us. To cut a long story short, UHAUL on the phone were telling us that International Drivers licences were fine for renting a truck, while the local agent was saying it wasn’t. We had to go to a different UHAUL agent to get a truck after much debate and time loss. We where stuck having to rent UHAUL because no other rental companies had any trucks left on a Friday afternoon. The plan just came off. Without a truck we would have had to leave the trike and fly out from Richmond to Chicago and pick the trike up later.

We picked the truck up and loaded the Trike that evening. Ed knew the local town manager and he came down to the airport and we lifted the trike base into the truck with no dramas. The wing went in and we tied him down properly. It was getting late and after saying our thanks and goodbye's to Ed we stayed our last night in the airport terminal and prepared to head out in the morning. The flying was over but we still had some interesting country to cover back to Chicago.