New truck! (to us)
Nov. 19th | Posted by Nicky
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Well, it’s official. We have graduated to a family-sized vehicle.
It’s a (new to us) 2003 Honda Pilot, with about 100,000km on it. Leather, which should be good for wiping up kids spills, and plenty of room for kids and dogs and luggage and us too. In fact, it has a third row of seats that actual adults can sit in… so when we have people visiting we can all (max 8 people) climb into the car and head of to the winery/beach. The pilot has all-wheel drive and racks for the canoe. It also tows a trailer – we are planning on buying a dinky little RV for summertime travels and the week at Harambe Camp.
All these good things aside, I was having a little environmental guilt apleximy when we were looking at buying it. I mean, it’s huge. It has the best gas mileage in its class, but that’s in the “huge” class. But J rock has agreed to drive my little car back and forth to work every day… while I walk and bike to work. We’re going to do our best to drive it as little as possible. And in the end – we needed this truck. It’s not like we will be driving it solo to commute… we’ll be towing a trailer or hauling 2 dogs and 4 people around. *So I’m feeling a little better – but still pretty away that we’ll need to watch how and when we drive it.
It is still a nice vehicle!
I was hoping you would let us know what you bought. It sounds like you’re more conscientious than others so try not to sweat it – just enjoy your SWEET NEW RIDE!
Congratulations! Now you just need the kids to fill it! Hopefully that won’t be too much longer!
Yes, I think we’ll get a ton of use out of it -
our big exciting trip to THE DUMP is coming up this weekend!
Oh, the luxury of hauling your own cardboard to the recycling station….
Congratulations! A good babyhauling choice!