October 25, 2009
A new set of wheels

Even before Paul and I were married, I purchased a 4 door Saturn Sedan as my vehicle. It was a dependable little car (5 speed) and we have been driving it ever since. It got wonderful gas mileage for our commutes to and from work. However, it now had over 160,000 miles on it and we were beginning to wonder how much longer the good old reliable Saturn would continue to be reliable. The other issue we were facing was that this vehicle would not hold our entire family.

We began researching and looking for a new car - no hurry, because there was nothing wrong with the Saturn. We decided that we really like the Ford Freestyle. It is a 6 passenger car, and still gives us the gas mileage we need for commuting. All of the rear seats fold flat - for those occasions when Paul has a greater than normal quantity of wheels to take to work with him. The fact that it would hold all of us would allow us to put fewer miles on our Yukon and hopefully, it will last longer for us as well.

Once we made our decision of what to buy, we made our wish list of options, mileage and price and just waited. We knew we had time to wait for the right one to come around and after several months it finally did.

Our new-to-us 2005 Ford Freestyle