A Not So Average SUV For The Not So Average Girl When I was a young girl I used to look at my peers and admire the qualities that made them unique. That time in my life I felt plain and very ordinary. It wasn’t until I started this blogging journey that I realized my…
Family Adventure is a Bit More Luxe in the 2020 Hyundai Palisade 7 Seater SUV
Even if that adventure is only on the road to school and back. Created for the adventurers, families, and those unwilling to give up style and luxury in favor of capability, the Palisade was named in reference to a line of high, substantial, towering cliffs. And, the Palisade was designed to meet that high level…
10 Priceless Reasons You’ll Want to Say Yes to Your Minivan Urge
This is the ultimate car for the travel junkie. I have a love/hate relationship with minivans. I love them for road trip travel, but not for every day driving. However, when travel takes priority in our lives, I start to think of the minivan in a new way, as a critical tool for the life…
Safety and Adventure in a 3 Row SUV: The 2019 Subaru Ascent Review
Safety Doesn’t Have to be Boring. Subaru has proven that time and again. I’m sure you’ve seen the commercial where the teenager has an accident but no one’s concerned because “it’s a Subaru!” And there’s the other one where the husband is in the hospital after a car accident. But wait: he gets a do-over…
Does Your Back to School Shopping Include a Three Row SUV?
Nissan thinks you shouldn’t be a slave to the carpool schedule, so boom: the all new 2017 Armada. This actually happened: In the middle of the back to school craze I discovered we could join a carpool for my daughter’s dance troop (three days a week!). But we didn’t have enough seating in our car…
2016 Toyota Land Cruiser Puts the Luxury in SUV
You might wonder, if Toyota’s Sequoia is a full size SUV, why it needs a Land Cruiser as well. After all, they look very similar and they’re the same size. A friend of mine has a brand new Sequoia, so when I got the 2016 Toyota Land Cruiser to drive for a week we compared…
Big, Beautiful, And Turning Heads: 2015 Lincoln Navigator
The Lincoln Navigator won over my neighborhood. With three Fords in our driveway, it’s apparent we’re Ford fans, and with Lincoln as the “rich” cousin, I was stoked to test drive the Navigator. And when the impressive 2015 Lincoln Navigator arrived in my driveway, turning heads on my cul-de-sac, my neighborhood swung into gossip mode….
Three Blondes, Two Weeks Of Para-cycling And One 8-foot Bike: Putting The 2015 Chevy Suburban To The Test
What happens when a blind athlete, her sighted pilot, a tandem racing bike and a guide dog named Elvis hit the road for 8 days of races? A lot of #blondesonbikes adventures. As an elite paratriathlete from Greenwich, Connecticut, I spend all my time training and competing in paratriathlons, cycling races and foot races; my…
Moving College Kids Home With The 2015 Honda Odyssey Touring Elite
Moving two college girls home is hard. Moving two college girls home from their campus apartment in San Francisco to Los Angeles for the summer isn’t an easy task. They have lots of stuff, all crammed into boxes, duffel bags and laundry baskets. To make sure we had enough room for all their belongings and…
Mercedes-Benz Sprinter: Racing Across the Sahara Desert in Rallye Aïcha des Gazelles
The Mercedes-Benz Sprinter has off-road bragging rights. A 4 x 4 version (new to the US this year) is racing for the second time in the 2015 the Rallye Aïcha des Gazelles taking place from now until April 4. (To watch the Rallye live go to: www.rallyeaichadesgazelles.com) Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, the rally…