Archive for November, 2014

Minivan Update, Part 3

Now that you loyal readers have endured two blog posts of my minivan-buying adventures, here’s your reward: photos.

Before:

image of minivan with rusty wheel wells

After:

image of minivan with shiny wheel wells


Before:

image of back hatch of old minivan

After:

image of back hatch of new minivan


Before:

image of front of old minivan

After:

image of front of new minivan


Before:

image of dashboard of old minivan

After:

image of dashboard of new minivan


The main downside of the new minivan is that we can no longer play cassette tapes. On the other hand, it has a hard drive, DVD player, and can stream songs from a phone via Bluetooth.

There is a learning curve with the Bluetooth/phone/vehicle interaction. For example, I was out somewhere and my wife was on her phone at home. I returned home and as I pulled into the driveway, the music stopped and some lady’s voice started talking to me. Bluetooth has a pretty decent range. I shut off the van and my wife’s conversation returned to her phone.

We are keeping the old minivan for as long as it will run. It’s good to have a backup vehicle, or a junk vehicle. Need to pick up lumber? Need to haul away an old appliance? No need to mess up the shiny new minivan or go through the hassle of removing car seats in order to fold the van seats down to make room. It’s like having a pickup truck. But it also seats 7 if you need it to.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.

2 Corinthians 5:17