Thursday, December 31, 2009

New Ride . . .

. . . for the new year.

It may be silly to take a brand new vehicle to drive around on the narrow streets of Naples, Italy, but I was concerned about our Explorer's reliability for another three years with no Ford repair shops around.

The Escape is smaller, gets better gas mileage, and will only be used on road trips. We'll be looking for a beater for daily use when we get there. My report date to Italy now looks like about 15 APR.

We pick it up tomorrow.

1 comment:

Punctuation said...

Nice!

Plenty of torque and ground clearance for trips around beautiful Italian rockscape, er I mean landscape.

So it's starting to get VERY close and real now then. I'm really pleased for you and Mrs Bulldog - a brilliant adventure, honest.

I look forward to visiting and sampling some of the newly acquired pasta-making skills when the time comes!