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New Ride for ActiveSteve!

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Just a very short blog post to share a bit of exciting news to me. I just bought a new car this week! Yup, it was time for some new wheels to drag my butt around to my different races and to get to the training grounds around here. What did I buy? Well, how about a 2010 Hyundai Elantra Touring (GLS Model)! I’d often been looking at cars like the Toyota Matrix and Subaru Outback, so I was interested in a wagon-esque sled. An opportunity presented itself, and the price was right, so I snatched it up šŸ™‚ I got them to install a roof rack and bike rack as well, so I’m totally ready to roll. To see more pictures of it, head over to my folder on flickr. Probably the last time it’ll be so clean! With this car, it’ll be much easier to load / unload a kayak from the roof I also got a stick shift, so the fun of driving is back šŸ™‚ See, told you the post would be short!


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