Well, you know...

This is the first road trip I've ever taken when I had the car looked at before we left. And also the first time the mechanic said there was nothing wrong! Drive it to Michigan! And so we did.
We drove to the church yesterday and I mentioned to Mark that the steering wheel was kind of shaking and feeling a little funny. He couldn't feel it as a passenger, and we just shook it off. When we got to the church, the air had a really weird smell. When we got back to the hotel, THAT air had the same really weird smell. Curious. Was the smell following us?
Mark smelled around the tires and figured out it was actually us that was smelling. Duh. He drove to WalMart, where they could not look at it and would be closed Sunday. But he talked to Sears and they'd be ready to look at it first thing in the morning.
After some detective work it was determined that a brake pad had gotten stuck, causing so much heat that the rotor warped and the calipers fused together. Nice.
Of course there are no calipers to be had in Saginaw on a Sunday morning. They did have everything else, though, so they were going to try to get the calipers apart and see if it was drivable then. They used compressed air and mechanic mojo and got them apart, and cleaned them really well. Everything else was replaced.
They are 100% positive we are safe and able to get home. That's from the mechanics at the Sears in Saginaw, if that ever needs to be documented!
We'll be making our way home shortly and I'm sure it will be uneventful. Hm.
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