2011-11-06
Last night, the transmission on our Murano died. At least, I think it did. We need to wait until Monday when we can get it towed to the dealer. Will be interesting, since the dealer just did a $2200 service on it 3 weeks ago, and it has been leaking tranny fluid since then. We will see.
First real snow of the year also hit. Now Sandy is driving a rental car in the slippery stuff and not liking it: no AWD and wimpy tires.
BUT, on the brighter side, karma is trying to balance things out. I had already decided to give up on the GPS, because NZ maps were going to cost me $150!!! But then, i discovered some free, open source ones (NZ Open GPS Project). Easy to download and use with an SD card. Thrilled. I guess I should thank Garmin for allowing open source maps to work too…
Buoyed with my success, I searched for and found open source ones for Italy as well. Life is good. We have rented a car for our last few days in Saskatoon. Murano should be operational by the time we get back, will just be a matter of how much.