This is the story of my trip to Chicago on 9/26/2010 May seem fictional but...sadly its NOT. On the week of 9/19 we got word that my Grandmother, who has been in bad health with cancer, was not doing well and was given 3-5 days to live by the doctors overseeing her care. My family, having just lost our father about a month ago, wanted to go see her one last time and if the circumstances would have it, stay for her funeral. So we decided to drive out from Phoenix to Chicago on 9/26 (Sunday) there would be my mother’s Astro van and a Nissan that I would borrow from my friend, to get us there. We took off with me driving the 2006 Nissan Sentra 4 dr. Having my mother in the passenger’s seat, my 5 year old daughter, 7 year old niece and 19 year old sister in the back seats. We left the valley with out a hitch, stopping about every 2 hours to stretch. We drove about 7 hours at which time we were about 60-65 mile from Albuquerque, NM It was about 3pm when I told my sister, “You take over driving so I can rest up for driving at night” Due to that the seating arrangement had changed, My older sister driving, mom still in passenger’s seat, me right behind driver, youngest sister in the middle and 11 y/o nephew on the other end. We decided to move the little girls the Van that was following us. This is where things get crazy---

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