Our daughter plays competitive travel fastpitch and with this being her last (and most important) year we have some serious travel we are looking at this year for college exposure tournaments.
We have recently paid off DH vehicle (99 GMC Jimmy- about 90,000 miles) and my van (2003 Dodge Grand Caravan currently at 96,000 miles) will be paid off in 4 months! We have been trying really hard lately to pay down debt and the plan was to wait as long as we possibly could before we get any replacement vehicles. Neither of these has cost us much in maintenance- and luckiy the few little things we have had my DH can take care of.
This years schedule has us going to Denver (1100 miles one way) and then a couple months later to Florida (1300 miles one way). As it turns out- if things stay as they have been lately we will be able to save up enough that we could extend our time in FL....and I am sure we can find SOMETHING fun to do there (has 6 letters, starts with D and rhymes with MISNEY!), so I really want to be able to do both trips so that we can have some extra family time.
For some reason though I am very nervous about driving a vehicle with 100,000 miles across country though. The Denver has been planned to be driving with my in-laws in their vehicle, so I have never really worried about it- but we would have to do the FL on our own. The travel expense is not the problem- but I just keep wondering what if the car breaks down?!?!
Do people take their vehicles with that kind of mileage cross country? We would be breaking it up to 2 days driving, because we have other children flying is not an option (that blows the travel expense budget!). I know people keep the cars with high miles- and I am all for that- but I had only planned around town travel. The thought occured that maybe we should just buy something new (well not brand new...) but I really don't wanna do that and take on the payment just because of a trip to FL.
We have recently paid off DH vehicle (99 GMC Jimmy- about 90,000 miles) and my van (2003 Dodge Grand Caravan currently at 96,000 miles) will be paid off in 4 months! We have been trying really hard lately to pay down debt and the plan was to wait as long as we possibly could before we get any replacement vehicles. Neither of these has cost us much in maintenance- and luckiy the few little things we have had my DH can take care of.
This years schedule has us going to Denver (1100 miles one way) and then a couple months later to Florida (1300 miles one way). As it turns out- if things stay as they have been lately we will be able to save up enough that we could extend our time in FL....and I am sure we can find SOMETHING fun to do there (has 6 letters, starts with D and rhymes with MISNEY!), so I really want to be able to do both trips so that we can have some extra family time.
For some reason though I am very nervous about driving a vehicle with 100,000 miles across country though. The Denver has been planned to be driving with my in-laws in their vehicle, so I have never really worried about it- but we would have to do the FL on our own. The travel expense is not the problem- but I just keep wondering what if the car breaks down?!?!
Do people take their vehicles with that kind of mileage cross country? We would be breaking it up to 2 days driving, because we have other children flying is not an option (that blows the travel expense budget!). I know people keep the cars with high miles- and I am all for that- but I had only planned around town travel. The thought occured that maybe we should just buy something new (well not brand new...) but I really don't wanna do that and take on the payment just because of a trip to FL.