228. Getting Through Big Challenges {LC's Journey 31}

I'm definitely going to tell you more about Colorado with Sandy, who has so much wisdom inside her, and the way she perceives life is so beautiful. I know you're gonna love it. We were scheduled to do a discussion, a chat, but she got sick, so we're gonna reschedule that, and I'm gonna keep moving forward through this story, and then I have more runes for you, I have more Sam for you. We've got great shows coming up. Thank you for joining me on this helter skelter journey with lots of twists and turns and maybe some shortcuts and maybe some scenic routes. I'm a pretty firm believer in. The car. Being a symbol for forward movement. So. After it broke when I was leaving Colorado. It was fine. In New Mexico. Although when I drove up to Taos to visit. One of the famous Kundalini yoga teachers. The air conditioner stopped working very well for a little bit. It was quite muggy. And it felt like humidity was coming out of my events. However, it was only a short period of time. And after I stopped the car and started it again. It worked just fine. In fact New Mexico. Was a really integral period of time. For me. I didn't like it. I don't like hot, hot, dry, dry desert desert. Apparently. I loved Colorado and I loved Utah, but New Mexico was a whole other level. Of hot and dry. It's just not my thing. I was. Where Kundalini yoga sort of took root and This is a practice that has been absolutely integral to my personal growth. My confidence courage. Self-worth all of the things. It's gotten me where I am. Anybody asked me. What has been the most important? Thing you've done for personal growth. I will hands down without a blink of an ice. They Kundalini yoga. Kundalini yoga gives you. You. I let it give. Give me me. And I still had a lot of challenges to face. But I believe that I've been able to get through those challenges with more ease. And also quicker. Because of Kundalini yoga. And. There is an aspect of Kundalini yoga that feels old school culty. I don't. Engage in that part. I do the practice and that's it. However, it was interesting to see. The roots of it and how the old school cultiness does exist. Not in like a. Dangerous way necessarily. I don't feel like anyone's stuck there. I believe if anyone is stuck there, it's because of the perception they have in their own mind of what needs to be. The dogma. Honestly, anything can be dogmatic. I was able to see that. And I was also able to see. My value in the work that I was doing. And how it wasn't being honored. And it would never be. I had conversations. And agreements about. That. But I also started to see that change was definitely not inevitable. And nearly impossible. I'm going to segue now into. Getting out of Dodge. Citi. Kansas. I get along really well with my mother. So she decided to fly from Minnesota to Santa Fe. And we would stay a night in Santa Fe and then take a road trip. Up to Minnesota, which was my next stop. And a two day drive. If it's me, three-day drive with my mom and me. It was really nice to have her there. We had a really nice time. In Santa Fe kind of just Looking around, but I was really ready to get out of New Mexico. And we did. So I drove about a hundred miles. Got some gas. We switched moms started driving. Maybe 20 minutes down the road. At. Four 30 mountain time. Five 30. Central time. All my lights come back on. It's 104 degrees Fahrenheit. We're in the panhandle of Oklahoma. Literally. In the middle of. Nowhere. You think Vermont has no people. Of course you don't. You've never been here. Oklahoma. No. It's there's nothing. I'm going to go ahead and read my journal entry about this part of the adventure. I will anecdote it a little bit. But here it is. No one is thrilled when their warning lights come on in their car, especially after you paid$2,707 to fix it last week. Seriously. One week and maybe five or 600 miles later after driving about 200 miles from Santa Fe. Okay. I guess it was 200 miles, not 100. East with mom and gassing up. Lots of lights came on again. Thank God. Mama's here. We finally get ahold of somebody at a Toyota dealership in Texas. He said, basically to drive it to a place, we could get a diagnostic run. I called Rosa at a truck shop. She gave me two names, monster Mike and Andy. I called Mike he's in Denver fixing something. He has a mechanic that can work on Prius's. He even owns a couple of them. But he's also in Denver with monster Mike. Okay. I call Andy. Soft voice heard my plate. We're trying to get to Minnesota. We don't live anywhere near all my stuff is in my car because I just left Hawaii. Andy. Usually works on Fords, but he can hook it up to his computer. We get there. He comes out with his diagnostic scanner. Hooks it up, walks around my car. Is this a hybrid? Oh, my God. He's the sweetest man. Gentle kind generous. But also like, Doesn't know a Toyota Prius is a hybrid. There's no code on the scanner. There's no code. There's no code. I don't know why the lights are on. They shouldn't be on with no code. Oh, here's a code. POA 93, not my favorite combination of letters and numbers, but at least. I got a code. POA 93. Here's what it means. If the water pump is running, which it was. And if the fan is running, which it was then. Placed inverter with converter assembly. I have no idea what that means. I don't think Yanni really knows what that means. I mean, I think he kinda knows what it means, but it's not like he's going to do it. He doesn't even really know. What a hybrid is, so he's not going to work on one. I get a whole and also he wouldn't take any money. He was just so kind. I get ahold of a guy called John Piper in liberal, Kansas. We were going to stay in liberal Kansas because my mom thought it was funny. He can take a look, but it doesn't sound promising$200 minimum just to take a look. It doesn't work on hybrids much because who has a hybrid out there? No one. I did. That's it. As we slow to make the turn up to liberal, the brake light comes on and screams at us. Gaiman is straight ahead. Guymon, Oklahoma. So slowly we go forward. My mom's starving still at this point. Thank God. Because when I'm driving and shit happens with my car, I am not in a good place typically. I did get used to my alternator, stop working a lot. So I got kind of like, okay, when that stuff happened, but I think my brake light screaming at me turning on when I'm trying to take a turn, I don't think I would handle that very well. Anyhow. We find a room in Gaiman and by the wait, this is like, The nicest hotel room, my mom and I have. Over been in as just like a normal. I don't know what it was, but it was just like a normal hotel, like a best Western or something. Holiday, and I don't know. But it was a suite and it was so nice. Like I wish we had more time there. In the morning. All I hear and feel and get inside, you know, like that inner voice is go. I don't think anyone in Guymon can help. I also didn't even really complete the thought stay or go. And I just kept getting go. I just felt, Nope, go. So we did, we drove 120 miles to Louis Toyota in Dodge city, Kansas. The only light all morning was check engine. Nothing else came on. It was not blinking so we could drive. It's fine. Uh, we did not turn the AC on because that was also not working. Did I mention that in the hundred frickin four degree weather? Yay. I kept telling GG. My car, if you don't remember. We were taking her to the hospital or rather she was taking herself there. So I'm sitting in the waiting room. Now, the thing I love about Toyota dealerships. It's the very chill, relaxed all as well. No pressure. What can we do for you kind of atmosphere? You know why I love Toyota as far as cars go. Other than that civic, that I really loved the F they feel closest to home. Anyway. I'm not sure why it's taking them this long to run a diagnostic. But when I called Alfonzo said, he's got only one mechanic today, but he doesn't have much going on, which is hilarious. Because if you've ever been at any other Toyota dealership, They have things going on. Thank God. There's even a Toyota dealer in west Kansas. That's basically the events I'm so grateful. I'm not alone. But I do wish mom didn't have to deal with this. She's driving like a champ though. I almost can't believe now how calm I've been through this whole thing. Even Colorado Springs, I just found a guy hotel got help. Waited, paid, drove. New Mexico wrote a song, asked to receive what I need. Got mom. I drove stopped switched drivers. Twenty-five miles lights came on Started calling the last and the next city, nothing finally called the dealer in Texas. Helpful. I just kept calling and saying what I needed help with and knowing that things are always working out for me, I might've shed a tear or two, but I think I was, and I'm just too tired and the situation is happening. I get this experience. What am I going to do? Get pissed and pushed back. That's a worthless waste of energy. This is happening just like Utah. And Colorado happened better to enjoy the ride and see how the happening unfolds. Believe it or not. I'm super tired. I mean, I didn't sleep well last night, I'm reading bliss brain by Dawson church. He starts it with a story of escaping the fire that took his neighborhood minutes after he and his wife got out. This isn't a fire. So what actually happened is mom and I stayed in Dodge city for two nights. There's nothing to do there. I think we ended up buying boggle or something. I worked. The fixed my car completely. The cooling system was cooling the engine, but not the hybrid system. So while my car was still working and I would've kept working, it would have totally destroyed the hybrid system because the guy in Colorado Springs didn't do the thing he needed to do after he. Quote-unquote fixed it in order to fully fix it. So I ended up spending another$700. I did not care. I'm like, thank God. Just fix my car. And we did make it up to Minnesota. There is a lot more trip to have. Before making it looping back around to Minnesota. Twice. Oh my God. Wow. What a year and a half. That was. But let's just take that. Final lesson of this is happening. What am I going to fight it and push back? No, that's a waste of energy. Being in the experience.