Driving Experience: EVs vs Gas Powered Cars

Everyone who knows me knows I love our electric cars (EVs)—love, love love! Yes, that whole driving for free on sunshine thing! But there is something else… I’ve primarily written about having EVs from an environmental and cost viewpoint. However, after renting gas powered cars on a couple of trips back in San Francisco over the past few months, I… Continue reading

Tesla Service Nailed It

After posting (and complaining a bit) about my first Tesla service experience, I feel compelled to post about the second one. Tesla brought a Volvo rental car to the house, picked up our Tesla for its follow up service visit, and the assistant service manager returned it to us, and took away the rental car. When he arrived at the… Continue reading

Northern Arizona, Day One — Travel to the Grand Canyon

Well, today ranks up there among the very worst travel experiences I’ve had in my life. We had to go from San Francisco through Los Angeles to Phoenix via air. Then we had to rent a car and drive up to the Grand Canyon in rush hour. I’m not complaining about any of that. Delta had severe flight delays into… Continue reading

Enterprise Car Rental @ Denver International

Seems that lately I’ve been grousing around about everything. I tend to be a fairly happy-go-lucky sort of guy, but when things annoy me, especially when my shoulder hurts, I vent about them. I don’t hold them in. So, when something good happens, I try to be equally as quick to share the love. Well, tonight, I want to share… Continue reading

No Better Way to Bring in the New Year

I think I’ve mentioned before on my blog that I’ve fallen in love with Arizona. The desert is such a mysteriously beautiful place. As I recently tweeted, I visited Page, Arizona, for my New Year’s celebration. Regrettably, my numerous tweets on this trip did not go out as, unlike Verizon, AT&T had no 3G coverage at all in Page, and… Continue reading