{"id":16078,"date":"2012-11-28T19:59:26","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T00:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=16078"},"modified":"2016-09-18T22:15:58","modified_gmt":"2016-09-18T19:15:58","slug":"i-love-my-ford-ranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/i-love-my-ford-ranger\/","title":{"rendered":"I Love My Ford Ranger"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve had my Ford Ranger for almost six months now<\/a> (already!) and, despite a few little speedbumps<\/a>, Moya and I have been the proverbial match made in heaven. I love<\/em> my Ford Ranger!<\/p>\n

There is just so much to love in my little green truck. In fact, the only thing I really don’t like is the gas consumption, but that’s practically a non-issue here in the land of cheap gas. I also miss having power doors and windows, but that’s it. Both of those issues were carefully considered trade offs.<\/p>\n

Now, what do I love about my truck? Sitting high up is a definite plus. I’ve noticed this at night especially. I’ve always avoided driving in the dark because I would get blinded. Not so with Moya! I’m above most headlights, so my night vision doesn’t get all of whack. I’ve been out a bunch of times at night with her and only realised after I got home that the drive wasn’t a big deal.<\/p>\n

My Ford Ranger drives beautifully and shifts smoothly from gear to gear. I love that my truck is so comfortable to drive. I’m not sore when I get out of Moya after a long drive. Also, my truck is a little big in some parking lots, but not unmanoeuvrable, the perfect compromise between a car and big pick-up truck.<\/p>\n

Being able to sleep in my truck is another plus. I wouldn’t want to do it in the current nightly temperatures or under a baking sun, but in average temps I have the option of sleeping in a parking lot instead of paying for a motel if a day trip runs a little long.<\/p>\n

When I was shopping for a truck, I didn’t want a Super Cab because of the extra length, but I’m now glad that my truck has those two doors in the back<\/a> that give me a place other than the truck bed to store cargo, especially shopping bags.<\/p>\n

Finally, my truck is very easy to tow behind my motorhome<\/a>. I was so concerned that I would have a huge unwieldy rig, but nope. I can still get into regular gas station and mall parking lots without any problems.<\/p>\n

Because this is an older truck that I don’t know very well, I decided to pick up a repair manual for it.<\/p>\n

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I’m hoping that reading this manual will help me to know Moya a little better so that I can make informed decisions about maintenance and repair. She still has fewer than 200,000KM on her odo and I hope that a little knowledge and love will keep her rolling for a good long while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve had my Ford Ranger for almost six months now (already!) and, despite a few little speedbumps, Moya and I have been the proverbial match made in heaven. I love my Ford Ranger! There is just so much to love in my little green truck. In fact, the only thing I really don’t like is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[635,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-america","category-rving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}