I was already regretting our trip.
My boyfriend and his family were taking a road trip across the road to see the country.
They decided to invite me along, and generally, I love road trips, so I was excited to go. However, the path we were taking was directly through a desert. I originally didn’t think much of this, and thought it was going to be a quick drive through and that would be that. But unfortunately, that was not the case. The first 10 minutes or so in the desert were bliss. The van we were traveling in still had its air conditioning going strong, and I really couldn’t tell the difference. But for whatever reason, maybe because the A/C was faulty or maybe because the cooling unit was not used to such intense heat, the HVAC machine shut down only 15 minutes later. This was definitely concerning, because within minutes the van began to heat up. The van went from being peaceful and quiet to everyone getting snappy real quick. My boyfriend’s dad looked up some nearby HVAC places, and thankfully there was one only a few miles away. We drove there, only to be greeted by the A/C professionals, telling us they don’t repair air conditioning in vans. Apparently those A/C workers only repair residential HVAC units in people’s homes. There was another cooling corporation 10 miles away, and my boyfriend’s dad called to make sure they repaired A/C in vans. They confirmed they did in fact repair van HVAC units and so we then headed off in their direction.