Road Trip

I'm ready for a road trip, but first I need a new car. I doubt this one would get me very far. Saw this machine at the Spencer Train Museum here in North Carolina. They have a nice display of classic cars - it's not just trains.

My husband and I actually went car shopping today. I'm looking for a small SUV. I drove both a Jeep Grand Cherokee and a Honda CRV. I liked them both, but the CRV gets better gas mileage than the Cherokee; much more practical.

I need to get something soon, my old Alero has 131,000 miles on it, and it's beginning to give us trouble. I already have a couple trips planned for the spring. The first is a trip to Charleston, SC, for the annual spring LWML Joy Event, and the second is my yearly trip to the Grandfather Mountain Nature Photography weekend. I've been to four of them now, and really enjoy myself. The one thing I have to get for that is a laptop so I can see the pictures I've taken during the day. There is always a friendly contest (no prizes), so I need to be able to pick out my best shots.

I have an old laptop that might be salvagable. I'm hoping I can put in a new hard drive and get it running again. I don't need much - just something to run Lightroom on (even Picassa, for that matter), and Word. I don't even need Internet access. Having a portable computer would give me the freedom to head over to Barnes & Noble and sit with a cup of coffee and write. Perhaps I could be inspired surrounded by books and people.