Car Ownership

For most, buying a car is one of the most expensive investments you can make during your lifetime. Whether leasing, financing or purchasing it outright, your car is a long-term investment, deserving of the best possible care. When you’re on a tight budget, investing in the regular maintenance of your vehicle can be overwhelming. Even seemingly impossible. But when you weigh the potential negative outcomes … Read More

In the last two weeks of 2016, we put more miles on our Ram 1500 Sport than we did in the prior two months of owning it. Our annual trip to Iowa is nearly 1,500 miles, one way and this year proved to be quite a challenge. It started off uneventful enough. The biggest decision we had to make on the way there (other than … Read More

The second Monday in January is National Clean Off Your Desk Day. This year, it falls on January 9, which just happens to be this Monday. Many in the workforce these days spend more time in their vehicle than at a desk, making cleaning out their vehicle tantamount to cleaning off their desk. And what better time to accomplish such a task than the very … Read More

I have to admit, before meeting my husband, I never gave my windshield wipers a second thought. And the reservoir for windshield fluid was something that got filled when I took my car in for an oil change. On our first extended road trip together, I was snoozing in the passenger seat when he decided to pull off the road, making a pit stop at … Read More

It’s been just over 20 months since I sat down for a Fast & Furious marathon, before going to see Furious7 on its opening weekend. Time flies faster than Dom’s Challenger falling through the air when he drove out the back of the airplane. Just this month, the trailer for Fast & Furious 8 (yes, 8) was released. With well over six million views in … Read More

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In a few days, my family will head out to Iowa to spend Christmas with my parents. It’s roughly a 22-hour road trip. With two 70-pound dogs, a cat and a 10-year-old. I’m pretty sure my husband and I have lost our minds. These are the things, though, we do to be with family. Besides, I love going home for the holidays and I almost … Read More

Have you ever dreamed of leaving everything behind and traveling the country? Or the world? I think it’s something that a lot of people dream about, whether they admit it or not. For some, once retirement rolls around, they make it happen – sort of. They buy an RV, pack it up for a nice, long, trip and hit the road, returning home as the … Read More