Here’s my BMW, Sir, I’ll take the Eurovan!

This is what our driveway looked like at the beginning of September:

Then we decided that the VW Golf was just too small to be our home on the road. Initially we hadn’t even thought twice about it because its mileage had completely blinded us. We averaged over 50 mpg on our road trip down to Northern California earlier this Spring. We have been spoiled rotten with very infrequent trips to the gas station.

We started looking for the perfect road hog to be our new home for the next few months. We didn’t want to sacrifice mileage but we clearly needed a lot more room. The solution: A 1993 Eurovan CL.

In 1993 Volkswagen came out with three different models of the Eurovan: CL, GL, and WV. Each model comes a little closer to a camper. A camper would make us feel retired, we’d fit in at the parking lot of all you can eat buffets, and it was undeniably not the vive we were going for. And that explains why we chose the simplest model(that and we were able to keep our pocket book a little fatter).

Then one day it all happened at once. We had our eye on the perfect, or nearly perfect, eurovan and prudently decided to buy it even though we’d then be proud owners three vehicles. While we were on our way to pick up the Eurovan I got a call about the BMW. We returned home just in time for the prospective buyers to take it out for a spin. They were dazzled by all it’s BMWness and bought it right then.

The day after we drove the Eurovan home I removed the middle bench seat. I laid down in my new living room and thought it was very similar to the studio apartment I lived in for a few months in Capital Hill. Spacious!