{"id":389,"date":"2012-02-25T22:37:44","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T03:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=389"},"modified":"2012-09-09T14:07:26","modified_gmt":"2012-09-09T18:07:26","slug":"steering-the-enterprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/25\/steering-the-enterprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Steering the Enterprise"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have now driven the GMC 3500 about 10 miles.\u00a0 Yes, I am easing into it.\u00a0 It will take some time to get used to driving it after 7 years behind the wheel of a compact car.\u00a0 This is very much NOT a compact car.\u00a0 Compact whale maybe.\u00a0 More like driving the Enterprise<\/em>, really.\u00a0 Every time I turn into the driveway I feel like I am easing it up to a pier.\u00a0 I am tempted to tie it down when I exit the cab.<\/p>\n

I went to the gym today.\u00a0 The gym has a parking garage with relatively low (6′ 10″) ceilings.\u00a0 I had to measure the truck to convince myself that it would fit (plenty of room – it is only about 6′ 2″).\u00a0 But even then I wasn’t sure I could navigate it into a spot without help from those guys with orange flashlights who dock the 757’s.\u00a0 I found a space in the corner that I could fit into, so this particular trip was a success.\u00a0 But this will be an ongoing concern.\u00a0 Every time I enter a new parking garage I will have to reconnoiter first.<\/p>\n

Here is the first photo of the Beast in my driveway:<\/p>\n

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The Beast, Docked<\/p><\/div>\n

I was worried, driving it home from the dealership, that it wouldn’t fit in the driveway. Well, it fits, but it is close. I think we now have about a foot of wiggle room. It had better be fully grown because if it has another growth spurt we will have a tailgate in the street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have now driven the GMC 3500 about 10 miles.\u00a0 Yes, I am easing into it.\u00a0 It will take some time to get used to driving it after 7 years behind the wheel of a compact car.\u00a0 This is very much NOT a compact car.\u00a0 Compact whale maybe.\u00a0 More like driving the Enterprise, really.\u00a0 Every … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-preparation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-6h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":626,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions\/626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}