Good morning, I’m on the road today. I hope you can join me for a quick chat.

Where are we traveling to? You ask.

We have some long travel ahead. First, we are driving 3 hours from Monument Valley to Farmington, New Mexico to get a new sim card for my phone. When I arrived in Monument Valley yesterday after driving for over 8 hours, I found my phone in international roaming. It shouldn’t happen since I never left the state. I asked the people around if their phones were working, they all said yes.

So I decided to call my phone company aka my internet provider, who is typically easier to reach by going to a physical store than by phone. The AI just wouldn’t route me to anyone. I was just about to scream my head trying to tell it my issue had nothing to do with my home internet. Finally, I got a live person and I decided to give him a piece of my mind. “Do you know how hard it is to reach a live person?” I said.

Instead of helping me restoring my phone’s signal, he rendered my phone useless by taking away all service. After 45 minutes of waiting on him to return my call on my other phone, I decided to try again. Turned out, perhaps for my rudeness, my phone was suspended. The second agent was a little more helpful. She ran a few tests and told me my Sim card was unresponsive and recommended me to go to the nearest physical store to get a new SIM card.

So here I am, on Saturday, Christmas eve-eve, driving nearly 3 hours from Monument Valley, Utah to Farmington, New Mexico.

I am also frustrated that my aunt and uncle have decided to tag along yesterday. They have no clue where to go unless I provided them with directions and instructions. They’re also someone who are adamant on 3-square-meals a day and would make someone eat even though they are not hungry. Ever since the scammer mess on Monday, I can barely eat and sleep these days. The nightmares about overdrawn checking accounts and fraudulent credit card transactions haunts me every night.

Meanwhile, mom only talks to me when she wants something. I don’t know why I’m so eager to help. It is not benefiting me one bit.

It’s been a very frustrated and trying week to say the least. I just wish everyone would leave me alone. No more relatives demanding stuff. If you want to travel, then go, don’t ask me to plan it for you. If you have mail that needs reading, ask your child, don’t ask me, I’m not your child. Why does everyone come to me instead of figure things out themselves?

In the meantime, I will share a few images I captured on the road yesterday. Hope you enjoy.

#weekendcoffeeshare is hosted by Natalie of Natalie the Explorer. I appreciate you stopping by. Until next we chat. 🙂