The time has come. Again.

I am shopping for a car.

Immediately after saying this to scrottie, he started to look for things on my behalf, which is great. In a first round of looking, he found a couple used Nissan Versas and Honda Fits to consider. Manual transmission, which will be fun to practice again.

My main thinking is that I'm looking at a cross-country drive and fieldwork this year, again. I could rent something, but renting is stressful and expensive anyway. This vehicle would get a hitch put on it, in order to tow boats. That would really help with towing boats to various bodies of water out here. Also camping and hiking expeditions.

Last year involved a lot of time and hassle renting cars to get to brevet start locations. It's definitely useful to have that information to look back on.

So I guess maybe I'd better put all the car-related budget categories into my budget now, after all, ha!

General priorities: good gas mileage, long life, used. We shall see how this all goes.