I admit, as a long time Prius owner, MPG matters to me. So from time to time, I’ll the results here. Since the installation of the roof rack (post coming soon), I’ve had this feeling that the MPG has taken a hit. No surprise. I expected it. Today we did a 160 mile round trip. […]
We love road trips. That’s obvious, right? Since we’re to this part of Calfornia we’ve been doing day trips to explore. 251 Miles 38MPG Morro Bay is beautiful. Morro Rock is amazing. The drive is mostly boring crossing the San Joaquin Valley. About the only surprise is you cross the location where James Dean was
I suppose if you want to do everything, literally, everything, possible to maximize profit in your namesake business scenes like the ones below are understandable albeit disgusting. At a recent NASCAR event in Japan, Toyota’s Chairman, Akio Toyoda, showed up wearing a MAGA hat and a trump/vance t-shirt. It’s not unreasonable to assume that, given
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I have mentioned, more than a few times, that storage in the 2025 Corolla Cross hybrid is limited. So a lot of the products that we have invested in are things that will help us in this regard. After looking over the Cross doors carefully I searched and found this… Please use this link to
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Like so many of our trips, this destination was inspired YouTube videos (mostly watched by Kimberly) and this case, we hit the jackpot. Nestled at the foothills of the Sierras, at an elevation of 2667 feet it’s not a mountaintop destination but it feels like it is when you are there. Aside from the apparent
One of the reasons we relocated to Bakersfield was to give a us new home base to road trip from. San Diego is a wonderful place and I very much lived there on and off since high school but to go north you have jump the LA hurdle and that gets tiresome. Our new place
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Kimberly is always losing her sunglasses. One way to prevent that is to provide a dedicated place for them in the car. So I ordered this from Amazon… Please use this link to purchase this item from Amazon and then Amazon tosses us a few pennies. It costs you nothing and helps support the site. We
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We love the desert. I grew up in San Diego with friends who owned property and loved to play out in Borrego and Ocotillo. Since moving to California Kimberly has developed a love for the desert that I understand. And yet neither of us had visited Joshua Tree National Park. So we did and it
Kimberly picked these out and I saw the photos when she ordered it and they looked nice. No matter what I thought, it was the style she wanted. When we got them they looked just as they should. The black highlights in the frmae glittered like hematite. As we’ve had on the car for a
LOVE THIS! Seriously, we love this cover. Let’s keep it simple. -It was a breeze to put on and it’s stayed on through heavy use. -Seen little to no wear on the cover. Obviously, the fabric underneath is still new. The dogs stand on this all the time (you can see the footprints) and they
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