{"id":1250,"date":"2014-05-14T09:24:39","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T14:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maryahernartist.com\/art-blog\/?p=1250"},"modified":"2015-08-19T08:12:22","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T13:12:22","slug":"choosing-new-car-artist-gardener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maryahernartist.com\/art-blog\/choosing-new-car-artist-gardener\/","title":{"rendered":"Choosing a New Car for an Artist and Gardener"},"content":{"rendered":"

I finally bit the bullet and bought a new car to replace my 1996 Nissan Pathfinder with 200,010 miles on it. I called her my gardening car since I could pack so many plants in her. She also carried my Art to many, many Art Festivals over the years. By giving her up I felt almost the same sense of mourning as I did when I lost 4 trees in my woodland garden to Hurricane Sandy. This car had carried my Art and me safely throughout six states worth of Art Festivals<\/p>\n

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1996 Nissan Pathfinder pulling my trailer filled with Art to one of many Art Festivals<\/p><\/div>\n

But it was time. The rust, the rattles, the pervading sense of being stranded somewhere if the trusty ‘ole car decided to bite the bullet. It was very hard to find the right replacement vehicle. I took tape measuring to all the dealerships in search of the perfect match. To my dismay I discovered that all the SUV’s have been pumped up on steroids since I was last in the market. Too many rows of seats and driving around in a McMansion didn’t hold appeal for me.<\/p>\n

After much searching I finally choose a RAV4 by Toyota. It fit the dimensions of my large paintings but wasn’t too over sized for day to day driving. So I\u2019ve downsized slightly in order to have a fully flat surface for transporting plants & Art. The back seat is a bench style while most of the larger ones have bucket style seats.<\/p>\n

Oh, and I was able to get it in green. Not a color offered very frequently anymore. One of the things that was a big pleasant surprise since I hadn\u2019t had a new car in decades, was all the new technology built into cars nowadays. The new toys helped with the sorrowful transition I felt on abandoning my old friend.<\/p>\n

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My RAV4 holding an entire Art Exhibition of 32 Paintings.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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