> Does anyone *not* have a "we broke down on
> the way to/home from summer/winter
> camp/retreat/vacation" story?

I have one! I have one! :-)

Slightly scary, though. We were a christian choir on our way to a general assembly of a home mission organization to perform. We were in an old bus on a road over a pretty steep mountain with a pretty long tunnel on top of it.

Just a few hundred yards before the tunnel, though, I noticed smoke coming out from the engine (located in a "box" next to the driver in the front of the bus). We stopped the bus and got people out of there, while the amount of smoke growed steadily. A few minutes later flames started coming out of the front. Someone had a cell phone and called the fire dept., but they were way down at sea level and took almost half an hour getting there, and by that time, the bus was almost totally burned out.

Everyone was OK, although some people got some shock reactions. But if it all had happened just one minute later, we would be in the middle of the tunnel, and *that* might not have ended that well...

Travholt.