Car shopping!!!

Today Robbie and I set off to do some much needed car shopping! Right now I have to take the bus to work and walk 2 K to get there. The bus system here needs much improvement and it takes me two and a half hours to get to the spot where I walk 2 k into work. This needs to change ASAP! Being that I will be doing research in the forest preserves I will need a good 4x4 and given that I don't have a Aussie manual license I will need an automatic. This narrows down my options quite a bit especially since my budget is 4-8G.

On Wednesdays they advertise privately sold vehicles in the paper so I took a few to consider.

After much calling and browsing it became clear that my only option was a 900$ Mitsubishi Pajero. I wasn't exactly thrilled by this option but if I could get a car to hold me over until I found something better then that would still be better than nothing! The guy said he couldn't meet us until 1:30 so we drove around looking at car lots and cruising for roadside deals, everyhing was a bust. I did a bunch of online car shopping and all the good deals and trucks/suvs (utes) are either in Brisbane or Melbourne. These are both waaaaay too far to go pick up, it would take four days to pick up something in Brisbane!

In the meantime we went and did some shopping for work boots which I needed and some camping gear. We let time slip a bit and ended up at the guy's house at 1:50 only to be told that the car had just sold. Bummer... the search goes on...