Yes, I am now retired! 5-months ago. It was weird at first; seemed like I was just off work for a few days. I had to drive to southern California for most of the month of April, which added to that 'on vacation' feel. The first long trip in over two years. It was something; gas was very expensive but even more so in California! I was glad to take our Rav4. I had been planning to take our truck. However, just a week before, we'd taken it in to get checked out, which was a major expense and a wait for the parts, so I took the Toyota. It saved a lot of money, although I planned to take the truck and the small trailer for a room instead of moteling it. With the high cost of ..... everything!, would it have saved as much as I'd hoped? Probably not in reality, but it worked as it did. As the Rav4 is a hybrid, I was able to get an average of 37 mpg, and that was keeping the adaptive cruise control set about 66 to 69 miles per hour which is plenty fast, even with much of t
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