When Big Is Useful

While I love Newt, my new truck, driving her around every day is a big pain in the butt. There are parking lots that I simply cannot squeeze her into. Most parking lots in fact. She also consumes a lot of fuel. Juke was much more fun to drive, and I could park that thing ANYWHERE. The thing with being tiny and fuel efficient though is that you're, well tiny. Tiny meant going to the feed store took a lot of planning because nothing but me and the feed were going to fit.

Juke was very cute and very small.

Newt's not tiny, and anything I can think of buying fits with no trouble. I didn't realize how used to "planning" I was until this weekend when I suddenly decided to go to both the feed store and the grocery store on my way home from the barn. With Juke, there simply wasn't room for a few bags of beet pulp, rice bran, shavings, and a loaf of bread. Forget two cases of water, some Gatorade, a watermelon, and a week's worth of meal ingredients.

With room for more!

As I was leaving the ranch, I started making a list of where I wanted to go but hit a mental roadblock with a big STOP sign when I added in the grocery store. Then I remembered that I was basically driving around something the size of an aircraft carrier and gleefully realized that all the stuff fits. All of it! And then some.

With even more room to spare.

I may hate walking from the very end of the parking lot or from the other side of the street, but I sure do love having all of that room. I also love the huge fuel tank and all the towing power that comes with such a big truck.  

Newt may be an expensive daily driver, but she's got her uses. I think I'll keep her.