#goodbyerav4

Yesterday I sold my RAV4. I took a pretty big loss on it, but the trade-off was waiting around to figure out what to do with it or having it just sit around. In the end, I know when I have enough saved up I can get another car, but at the same time I truly adored this car (as much as you can adore a car). 

My RAV4 was my first off-road vehicle. Because of that car I was able to explore so many parts of the country that would otherwise have been off limits to me. For example, on our very first off-road trip, we did a very daring trek up Harquahala Mountain in Arizona to hunt for scorpions and a rare chocolate morph of a species of boa (the specific species I cannot recall right now since we never found it):

We saw a lot of cool looking Saquaro cacti, like this zombie cactus:

After stupidly telling ourselves repeatedly that "well, we've gone this far, we just need to go a little further" up the steep, shaley sides, we somehow made it to the top without falling off the side of the mountain:

And that's when I knew she was worth the cost of 4WD.

Unfortunately for me, her 4WD was not true 4WD ("4WD-on-the-fly," basically AWD)... meaning I couldn't flat tow her. 

In the end selling my car was much harder for me than getting rid of my apartment, because in a sense that car offers me a freedom that the RV never will in the back country. However, for now it was the right decision, and I feel a weight lifted off me from that apprehension about what I should do with my car.