We started
scouring usedvictoria and kijiji for hours a day trying to find a ‘young’,
low-mileage car. What began as a search for a truck soon became the hunt for
anything that had four-wheel-drive, a necessity if we were going to make it to
Jasper and Banff on our trip in Spring.
Google, search,
hunt, scour, reset criteria, change search word, scroll, edit, expand search…
oh hello Subaru Lagacy. And here we finally find Scooby. A delightful red estate
car that comes with two sets of wheels - winter and summer. It’s as if it knew we were wanting to
take him to snow-capped mountains.
If only it
were going to be as easy to actually buy him. Oh how simple things could have
been. What we believed to be a straightforward money transaction between our
British account to our pre-paid travel Credit Card, became a frantic money
chasing fiasco that caused us significant grief. It took almost 10 days to have our money
moved, transferred, accepted and available from British to Canadian banks and
Lewis was living in constant fear that he was going to lose his beloved
“Scooby”.
Finally,
with a cheque in hand we got Scooby and drove away with him eleven days later
than imagined. Epic.
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