Let's see. By the time this posts, I should have picked up Weer'd Beard and have started west. In a few hours, we'll be meeting up with Dennis of Dragon Leatherworks and continuing west to Pittsburgh. Google maps puts the entire trip at 601 miles, giving an estimated time-of-travel of 10½ hours. Figure another hour with stops, we should be pulling into town with just about enough time to drop off our bags to make Unc's shindig...
And y'all will love this. I'm renting a car, considering that gas is $4/gallon and the Dodge Earthf**ker gets about 12-14 MPG on the open highway (15 if I take it easy, but with a 345 HP Hemi, that ain't gonna happen). I chose the "intermediate" class, which consists of Corollas and Sentras and such, cars that all get 30 MPG highway or better. In the "Comments" section, I wrote down that I did not want a hatchback - a 1200 miles journey requires multiple stops, and I'd rather folks not see all the suitcases in the back.
So what does Hertz give me? One of these:
THEY. GAVE. ME. A. FREAKIN'. MINIVAN.
Yeah, yeah, I know, it's a 5-door hatchback, not a minivan; blah blah blah. It has twin sliding doors and seating for six. It's a minivan. On the plus side, I can run a nice side business shuttling people to and from the hotel and convention center...
Me, a minivan, and a 1200 mile road trip with Weer'd Beard - this is gonna be EPIC.
That is all.
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I seriously don't understand the stigma associated with a mini-van. Kinda seems anti-family if you ask me.
But then again, I live in an area where BMW is associated with fascist assholes.
*sigh* just give me a call if you need to get bailed out.
Do you half a pack of cigarettes? Is it dark out? Are you wearing sunglasses?
It's the Dad life!
http://youtu.be/fZa7hU6tP_s
SWAGGER WAGON
http://youtu.be/ql-N3F1FhW4
The most interesting thing about that is Toyota actually made that video.
I made on offer on one of these not to long ago. The dealer wouldn't come down.
I'm still in the market for a car that seats six and gets better than 25 mpg. The Mazda5 is it, for now.
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