Road trip! Getting there with guidance from above.(SOHO ADVISOR)

Chaucer had it right: When April comes around, people think about going on pilgrimages. Well, the modern equivalent of pilgrimages anyway ... namely road trips. And that brings people like me who hate cars but have to live with them back into the hot seat. And this spring, it's a new hotseat.

I logged tens of thousands of miles on my long-suffering 1993 Corolla before the thing finally told me it had had enough. The manual transmission went from five-speed to three-speed forcing me to go everywhere in second gear unless I could push it to screaming point and switch it