It rained.
That doesn't sound impressive to you, does it? I understand that rain elsewhere is a somewhat common place happening. But for us here, where even the normally scare rain has been even sparser for the last four years, this is noteworthy. Even surprising.
But then what happened?
We bought a car.
I also understand that some of you purchase cars. In fact, I've heard that lots of people buy cars. But I think our purchasing a car is at an excitement level typical for click-bait articles. So you get to read about it.
Cyndi told me she no longer felt comfortable driving the truck because she couldn't simultaneously reach the brake / clutch and see over the dash. And since I'm going to rely on her driving me back home after my cataract surgery, I figured we needed to do something.
I don't know that I need cataract surgery but since everyone else in my family has had cataract surgery, I want to get in on the fun too.
So we drove to Santa Fe to "just look" at some cars and try to find one that fits Cyndi's size. It turns out she fits into a compact car just fine. After a couple of dealers, we found ourselves at a Toyota dealer and a Corolla Hybrid AWD seemed just right. The dealer offered us $22k trade-in on the truck (which cost us $25k 12 years ago) and I said that was good but we hadn't brought a checkbook with us and would have to return at a later date.
I guess the dealer figured that once we got home, we'd buy the car online and they didn't like that, so they "incentivized" us and also offered to drive up to Taos (70 miles one way) to pick up our check. Fine with us. We drove home in the new car.
Here is a comparison of the two vehicles. The pic of the truck was taken when it was shiny and new (and frankly it still looked like that ... at least after I washed it). Cyndi hasn't changed size in those years, so you can compare the two vehicles (btw, the Tacoma is considered a small truck here in the USofA).
