We got a car. It's been about 9 months that we've been on one car.

The piece about only have one car hasn't been so bad. Laurie can do all of her work from home and we are walking distance from a number of grocery stores, the Capitola Mall, and OSH. We often walk to those places anyway because they are so close.

The piece about giving one car, a car that we like a lot, all of the miles is what hurts. We've put something like 40,000 miles on our Miata since last summer. Not an insignificant portion of those miles have been on very rough dirt roads with signs that say "high clearance vehicle recommended."

So we got a 1997 Jeep Wrangler Sport. It came with both a hard top and soft top. It also has the locking "trunk" area, side steps, AC, ABS, a bra (not on it yet -- but given to us), center console, tilt wheel, and cruise control. The front seats recline back far enough to sleep and the rear seat can be removed for more road trip room.

About the only problem with it is a rip in the drivers seat vinyl. Some tape and a couple of seat covers should solve that problem.

Oh... the other problem. Laurie won't let me drive it until tomorrow! Doh!

Pictures will come later. And I still need to get pictures of our holiday tree up, too.

Posted by Shane on December 7, 2004 8:32 AM | Permalink