Katie’s New Ride

Katie’s 2008 Jetta has been due for it’s big 30K service for a little while now and we wanted to wait until we got her up to the bay area to get the work done. On Friday, I had to run to the office really quick and Katie came with. Not too much excitement but on our way back to the apartment, I remember that her car needed service and the VW dealership was on the way home. We swung on in, made the appointment for the very next day at 9:30a and proceeded to peruse the lot. Now, we love to fantasy shop… we know good and well that we have no intention of buying a car, right? Yea, that’s what we thought!

So we met up with a salesman, Mark, who reminded us of our pal Joe back in SoCal. We liked him immediately. We first had our eyes set on a used 2008 Toureg, but it turned out to be WAY too expensive for our taste. We wanted to look at other options and started to make our way down towards the Routan’s (VW’s mini van) and Katie started to lose it! She kept squeezing my hand and shaking her head… but I’m not getting it. I was warm on the idea, she wasn’t, so we moved on. Maybe after the second kid is born we’ll explore the mini van option, but until then, we’ll stick with the SUV range!

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Full tank for under $20

Under $20 for a full tank

This morning I traveled down to the Shell station of Lyons avenue and saw what I thought was an error, 87 octane for $1.69. This Shell station is always the lowest on our side of town and this morning they didn’t disappoint! When I first moved to LA, gas was around $1.65/gal and that was back in ’01. When I was in high school, it was $1.25… if it ever hits that low again, I will seriously consider making my classic car a daily driver.