The TOAD has landed

Today Mona and I made our first purchase toward our life on the road. A 2010 Honda CR-V ELX, a highly recommended vehicle for towing behind an RV all wheels down, and a pretty nice ride all around, though not quite as smooth a ride as the 2006 Pontiac Montana Van she'll be replacing.

As soon as Mona no longer needs the van for book store deliveries (settlement on Gently USED BOOKS looks like it will happen on schedule the first week of December or sooner) the van will be consigned to a good local dealer to sell for us and this will be her car.  I'll still drive the Chrysler Town & Country van for now.

The CR-V completes it's morph into a TOAD when we add the front base plates that will attach to the Blue Ox tow bars on the RV when being towed, a secondary stone catcher, or a hood bra,  to supplement the RV's rear stone flap, an auxiliary brake and remote tire pressure monitor system to keep this amphibian safe at all speeds.

PS: This will be the smallest, cutest vehicle either of us have driven since tooling my mom's 1966 blue VW bug down the PA Turnpike toward weekends at the Minnich's in Leechburg.