Sunday, September 21, 2008
Suburban Life
This summer we did a big grand family trip to Nevada, Utah, and Idaho. The best rate we could find for a rental car for this period was $2000 for a minivan. Most of the cars I have owned have cost less than this. So I asked my friend Jonah to check out a Suburban I found on Craigslist that cost less than this. He was nice enough to check it out, negotiate on the price, and then leave it for us when we got there. It ran beautifully and had better AC than we could have hoped for. We left it with my brother to sell at the end of the trip. All in all, two thumbs up. (This photo was taken just before dawn at the Grand Staircase Inn in Cannonville Utah. We had a great stay there--highly recommended)
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Very smart. Especially if you have a network of friends and family to do your buying and selling for you. I think we spent about $1000 (or was it $1500?) to rent a minivan for a week in DC last June -- and we still took the Metro or walked a lot of the time -- and it did hurt to pay that much.
(But I don't know anyone in DC who could have purchased a car for us there ahead of time.)
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