Drive on

Good news!

The donations keep on coming in, and I'm starting to get some things finalized. I want to make up a flyer/poster/card thing to maybe strategically place around. Since I like to obsess about details, and I consider it a good quality, I wanted to 'sample' drive some examples of the cars I was thinking of renting while in California this summer. In order of preference they were a Corvette, Mustang, and Camaro, all convertibles. They're all convertibles, because I've always wanted to drive a convertible on the PCH, and it ties in to the whole 'solar powered' part of my personality. So, after doing a quick search on cars.com, I found a few samples of Corvettes and Camaro's, the best selection being at a certain dealer in Ankeny. So I headed there to the used (Excuse me, 'Pre-Owned') side, and told my story, what I was doing and why. It was cold out and I had to pee, so maybe I was talking a little fast. Anyway, they brought me inside, the salesman talked to his manager person, which I thought funny. All I wanted to do was sit in them, and possibly drive them a little bit to see how rough the ride might be. After what seemed like a long discussion, they came back out and said I couldn't even sit in them.

So...I went to another dealer lot, still gave my spiel, but I didn't ask to drive one until after I had sat in the Corvette. They said no, because I wasn't a buying customer, which I was fine with, because he at least gave me a reason. Anyway, I decided that a Corvette is not the car for this trip, and probably not for me at all ever. They do say never meet your heroes. I'm an American, so the Corvette was one of my cars that I've always wanted, before my tinkle was fully developed so to speak. The 2nd dealer also said that I wouldn't want a Camaro, either because the sightlines are so terrible on it, especially in the blind spots. Which wouldn't matter as much on the PCH trip, but driving in and around the cities, it could become an issue. He also advised me that if I wanted to drive one, go to the new dealer lot, they are a little more liberal with the test drives. So, now I'm back to a Ford Mustang convertible, the Mustang shares an anniversary this year with the PCH itself, so there's that. I'm also trying to figure out if I want to ditch the convertible plan and go for the 'Grand Touring' type car in a sedan/coupe and such.

So, some things to do, but for the first time I actually feel happy in my job, and my life for the first time in my memory.