We got the Astro back yesterday. American Auto Air & Repair in Reno called me at about 3:40 PM yesterday to tell me that the Astro was ready to be collected. As soon as we could, Lisa and I piled into the Rolling Stone and headed for Reno, with a deadline of their 5 PM closure. (They're not open on weekends.) Fortunately, we got there with about fifteen minutes to spare. Had we hit any significant slowdowns, it might have been a different story. The problem with the air conditioning was the the line that feeds to the rear AC unit had sprung a leak. The additional problem was that when they replaced it, the line kinked and broke, causing the newly-recharged coolant to leak out again. They tried one more time and it failed the same way. GM doesn't make this model of auto AC anymore, so it's nearly impossible to get the part. The only thing they could do was cap off the lines to the rear AC unit. So we have AC in the front of the van but not the back. It's a good thing that we rarely carry passengers. This morning, I took the the Astro to the car wash. It had been nearly a year since it was last washed, and the weeks it spent in the shop had been most unkind to it. After cleaning it up, I got it refueled. While it's more fuel-efficient than the RV, that doesn't mean it was cheap: $125 to refuel, and it did not quite top off even at that. However, unlike a bunch of brain-dead idiots, I don't think that the President of the USA sets gasoline prices. My ire is directed at profiteering oil companies. Anyway, expect us to make quite a few trips to Reno over the next two weeks doing Westercon shopping.