NEW WHEELS

Wow......has it really been a month since the last post???
Well, we have been busy.   We departed Texas October 14 for New Hampshire....to pick up our new vehicle, have annual doctor visits and visit a few folks, including my 90 year old Mom....who is still going strong.

               Here is our new (2015) Jeep Cherokee Trailhawk.

It hasn't always been convenient to have just the Mini Cooper here in Far West Texas.   That plus the fact there are many off roading opportunities out here, led us to order this jazzy new Jeep so that we can travel the good roads and the not so good roads in relative comfort.   The Trail Hawk is the only Cherokee with the Trail Rated designation....complete with high clearances, skid plates and special incidence angles for serious off roading, this Jeep can literally take us almost anywhere.   It sits above in the lot at Crosstown Motors, awaiting our arrival from TX.

Here we are.....Pam and I with Steve Northrup, who sold and ordered the Jeep for us.   (Yes, shorts even on October 15 in northern NH).

This design of the new Cherokee and the Trail Hawk model first appeared in 2014 and represented quite a design departure from Jeep's historic round head lights and standard front end grill.  Critics mostly praised Jeep for the interior upgrades, but they split over the front end design in particular.....many thought it was too dramatic a departure for Jeep to make.   Pam and I are obviously in the group that loves the new design and praises the Jeep folks for being bold enough to think out of the box and do something dramatically different.

The new front end.....no typical round Jeep head lamps....and the eyebrow running lights on the top were disdained by many....and the Rubicon Jeep folks (top of the line Wrangler) were particularly upset that Jeep adorned the Trail Hawk with the red tow hooks, hitherto found only on the pricey Rubicon.

So, joined by Amy Remick (Pam's daughter) we drove the 2400 miles from NH back to West Texas and couldn't wait to get the Jeep off road in Big Bend National Park.   Here we are putting the Trail Hawk through its paces for the first time....with the Sierra del Carmen escarpment in Mexico in the background.   We look forward to all kinds of off road experiences....and will blog about same.   Great Stuff!