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Let’s start off with what’s important: Mrs. Adventure and Messrs Adventure #3 and #4 are doing fine. The Adventure Mobile was a complete write-off.
About a month ago we had bought a replacement to our aging adventure mobile. This 2004 8-seater Toyota Sienna with 110 000 km was to be the new vehicle to take our family of 6 out into the unknown for years to come. Sadly, within two tanks of gas it met its untimely end in a car crash.
We were very blessed in that both parties involved were fine. The air bags deployed as they should have, filling the car with smoke and protecting mrs. Adventure from missing any more adventures. She was lightly bruised where the seatbelt was, but managed alright. The kids were in their car seats and apart from a small bruise on #3 are doing fine. I was following the Sienna at the time so was able to help out our family while we waited for the police, etc.
The Sienna was a write-off, and we are slightly saddened to see it go, but happy that it performed the way she was meant to. We are also thankful that we didn’t sell our old white van (which limps on at 355 000 km), so we can keep on adventuring.
I spent this weekend fixing up the white van’s problems (replaced sliding door guides, replaced taillight wiring, fixed hitch wiring, and cleaned mass air flow sensor), so we should still be able to make it out on our adventures as a family.
Hopefully things will smoothen out now and we’ll start posting more regular content.
As always, thanks for stopping by and sharing our adventures and miss adventures.
– Paul
