The deed is done! 2 years and 3months of our car hiatus is over. We hemmed and hawed, paged through Consumer Reports, and obsessed over what we should get...they are all so much more expensive than the last time I looked in 2001! It needed to fit some band members and a cello, fit a drum set (just in case), move a baby and a cat with room for 2 weeks worth of packing, among various other hauling expectations for the next 10 years at least. We settled on a 2009 Subaru Outback wagon. My friend Laura's parents swore by them and drove them into the ground, Doug was the first to start batting around that avenue. Also in the possible running were the Honda CR-V and Toyota Rav-4. We had a hard time finding available used ones that hadn't been in accidents on the Carfax report. There are a lot of accidents out here! Everyone is in such a hurry, so impatient. The other issue is that used cars are in high demand since the hurricane. They are going out as soon as they come in. The dealer said they've been super busy with people all they way up from Jersey searching for cars on our dry land up here. Time to start looking over the craigslist baby department, I've seen some great deals on really nice things.
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