Edmunds CarPool

We'll Drive. You Fuel the Conversation.

2006 Brauer Family Vacation -- The Day After...

There's a joke about going on vacation: "You have to work twice as hard the week before and the week after a vacation in order to go on vacation." I won't go into all the work I did to prep for this family trip, but I can tell you how much work it took to restore our long-term Jeep Commander to "non-family-vacation" condition. You can probably already imagine what  a family of four, living in a car for 7,000-plus miles, will do to it, but if not I've included one image from the second row area. I spent about an hour going through the car's interior with all the various attachments on our Hoover vacuum. Then I spent another 30 minutes going through the interior with paper towels dipped in hot water...

Then I drove it to our local coin-op car wash and spend another 45 minutes (and $6.50 in quarters) using the high-pressure soap, brush and rinse nozzles. Then I spent another 20 minutes cleaning the windows. Now I'm finally ready to hand it off to another staffer without feeing guilty about its condition.

It's good to be back -- I can finally relax again.

Categories: ,

1 Comment
1 Comment

By jerrywimer

on July 19, 2006
11:19 AM

haha. I can totally sympathize. We took a trip home to visit family last week. We didn't exactly live in the new Avalanche, but spent a heckuva lot more time in it than we normally would be in a vehicle on any given day. I probably should mention that the interior is GMs in new ebony color scheme (saweet!!). So I spent about three hours cleaning inside and out when we got back on Sunday!

Report It

Post Comment

Advertisement

Archives

Browse Archives