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Red Accents

We wanted to spiff up the new car. So Kimberly and I perused lots of places to find cool little things to personalize the vehicle. I found this and it was exactly what Kimberly was hoping for. The little aluminum knob surrounds come in different colors. They also have small patches of double stick pre-installed […]

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Lake Isabella

After watching some rather well edited YouTube videos we made one of our first trips out a drive to Lake Isabella, located at the extreme southern end of the Sierra foothills. Because of some roadwork, the normal route, one of the most beautiful drives in this area, we closed. So the nav routed us through

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Add On Storage Space

One thing about the Cross, it lacks storage space. The center console is tiny and the single glove box doesn’t have a lot of usable space. The side pockets in the doors are small and again, like the console, not the most accessible space ever invented. Please use this link to purchase this item from Amazon

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Keeping It Clean

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 travel with two dogs. We take them to the dog park at least twice a week. We take them most everywhere we go. We also like road

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Air Caps With Paws

We bought these because, well, Kimberly wanted them and since it is a shared car, she gets to pick out stuff for the car. And of course she does. So she chose these since the accent color of the car is red and we both love our girls. So we got the ones with dog

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Doggie living room

As you have probably surmised, we travel with our dogs…a lot. So adapting a new vehicle to our needs, that one in particular, was very important. We used to travel with them in our previous car, a Prius. They basically had a couple of beds in the back seat and that was the extent of

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Welcome Home

The proud new owners with their newest baby, a shiny new ’25 Cross hybrid Nightshade with a red bow. Thanks to Capistrano Valley Toyota for their work. It was a pleasant sale experience handled remotely, online, for a half an hour on the phone and then twenty minutes at the dealership to pick up the

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