Which Would You Rather Drive?

This is my final post on our move. Although in the weeks to come, I’ll be sharing our remodeling project in our new house. The ups and downs. The joys and sorrows.

The question in the title of the blog has to do with the photos below. Here is the Penske rental truck we used to move all the smaller household items from Florida to Arizona. The bigger items like our office furniture, dining, living room and bedroom furniture were moved my a moving company. When it came time to start the trip, we had decided how we were going to drive. We had the truck and my husband’s Porsche, the car in the second photo. Which one would you choose? Which one do you suppose I chose?

 I chose to drive the truck. Do you wonder why? The Porsche has a standard transmission, and although I can drive a car with a manual transmission, I am not used to doing so on a regular basis. I knew we were going to have to drive through some big cities, and I didn’t want to be driving a car with a manual transmission in lots of traffic. After all, we’d been living on an island with relatively light traffic. So I drove the Penske truck nearly 2,000 miles. Once I got used to the mirrors, I didn’t mind driving it. The biggest shock was filling up the gas tank. Since my husband could drive his car faster, he was usually ahead of me. We kept track with cell phones and met each evening with my husband telling me which exit to use to find the hotel where we would be staying. During previous moves before the popularity of cell phones, we wouldn’t have been able to do that. How did we live without those cell phones?

Which one would you chose? Why?