Graf # 11

         What do you want to drive?  What do you need to drive?  What will you be driving through, over, around?  There are just too many options to choose from when selecting a vehicle to suit you.  What will best fit your wants and needs?  Now for me, I was thinking I wanted a nice big SUV or pickup truck.  Something that would be multipurpose, to get me around the farm to transport tools and supplies along with the usual casual driving.  Of course I wanted something big and obnoxious.  I think all of you men out there can see where I’m coming from.  It’s been programmed into us since the start.  Now I wish this dream could have worked out for my situation, but I just couldn’t see a vehicle that large fulfilling all of my needs.  There was one real tipping point in my search for vehicles.  And it was that I needed fuel efficiency, for the many miles that lay ahead of me between Aroostook and Penobscot.  I also needed longevity, a car that would last me through thick and thin, without numerous repair-shop visits on the way.  This led me, unfortunately, to my Corolla.  Not new and shiny.  Not beefy, lifted, and ready to adventure.  Just a Corolla.  Just a small, four-door sedan with an incredible track record for being long lived, and the ability to get some great numbers when pulling past the filling station.  But I have to say, on the really snowy days around here, I do regret turning my 18” tires in for 15 inchers.