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The wheels on the bus may go round and round, but how many of us don’t get on the bus? Watch just one YouTube video of kids being tossed around the inside of a bus like so many beans in a maraca, and you might be thinking twice about them boarding Big Yellow. Now I’m not suggesting that busses aren’t safe, but I am sharing that I’m a completely paranoid, helicopter mom who would rather drive her kids to school. The better to hover over them, my dears.
If you’ve ever tried on a Giorgio Armani suit, with its simple, perfect lines, subdued hues and deliberate lack of bling, and thought, “I love it, but I can't say exactly why,” well, that’s just the point (the French call this 'je ne sai quoi').
The 2012 Kia Optima Hybrid changed my mind about what my next car will be. My roots run deep in Kentucky, land of the 4-wheel drive truck, so I had not even considered a sedan as my next car. I have driven a Suburban for so long I would feel like I was riding on the ground.
Imagine this: It’s Christmas morning, and as you stand at your kitchen sink sipping your first cup of steaming java, you glance across the yard to see a silver Kia Sportage in your driveway, a bright red bow on its roof. Then it hits you: it’s in your driveway. Something on the kitchen counter catches your eye. A key fob. A key fob emblazoned with a KIA logo. Your heart begins to pound--you’ve never gotten a car for Christmas before.
The days of the “Wagon Queen Family Truckster: with it’s “exotic faux wood” paneling are gone. Boy is that a good thing, or what? Who, other than Clark Griswold, would long for an “Antarctic Blue Super Sportswagon”? No, these days we need our family ride to be so much more than sporty when we hit those holiday, or everyday, roads. Recently our larger than average family put the Ford Explorer Sport to the test, finding so much more than space for luggage, pets and road-trip snacks.
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