On the evening of Tuesday, September 2nd, Shareena, Lea (our housemate and Shareena’s best friend) and I packed up Shareena’s 2002 Honda Civic with as much of Shareena’s stuff-to-Chicago as possible. Upon completion of this monumental task, we were left with just a bit of clothing that Shareena had to ship and the whole car was full (minus the driver seat and enough room in the passenger seat for me to see out the passenger side mirror) and a little bit over the 850 lb suggested capacity of the car. We went to bed feeling pretty good…

On early Wednesday, September 3rd, after a fitly night of virtual non-sleep, I departed from Berkeley for a fun filled two and a half day road trip to Chicago. Right from the start, I notice that the frame of the car was sitting a bit low at the rear wheels…so I decided to take it easy on the car at first…hoping that the fact that we did not adhere to the 850 lb capacity was not going to ruin my trip before I make it to Nevada.

At about 60 miles to the California/Nevada border, I took my first break and examined the car. Everything checked out ok, though I was still a bit worried about what prolong “lowering” of the car via extra weight might do to Shareena’s car in the long term. But I figure, as long as I am still going, I will not worry about it too much.

Part Two, coming tomorrow (or the next time I need a break from work)

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