![In the summer of 2012, I made a decision I hadn’t made before—I leased my first brand-new car. It would be a Chevrolet Volt, a model I’d been following since […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/IMG_2007-115x115.jpg "My 2012 Chevrolet Volt — Charging Into the Future")
![In early 2012, my life started shifting—new job, new place, new routines I hadn’t planned but gladly took on. Around the same time, my sister parked her 2000 Silverado in […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/IMG_0003_2-e1776809062928-115x115.jpg "My 2000 Chevrolet Silverado 1500: It Only Took One Drive — How Truck Life Won Me Over")
![By 2011, I had accepted that the Jeep Patriot was everything I needed and nothing I wanted. That realization tends to be dangerous for someone like me. I don’t remember […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/IMG_1436-e1776284531538-115x115.jpg "My 2004 Mini Cooper S — The Right Kind of Irresponsible")
![It was 2009, and while the Volvo had been good to me, I could feel the edges starting to fray. The convertible top had already shown its temperamental side. The […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/IMG_6056-e1775521029323-115x115.jpg "My 2008 Jeep Patriot Limited — Practical, Patriotic, and Perfectly Adequate")
![By May of 2007, I had been working full time at Tillamook School District for about five months as a Desktop Support Specialist. A real job. Roughly $30,000 a year. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/IMG_4343-2-e1775520349455-115x115.jpg "My 1999 Volvo C70 Convertible — Upscale Aspirations on a Public School Salary")
![The Grand Cherokee was perfect for high school. But by the spring of 2006, life was getting more complicated. My brother decided he wanted to finish his senior year back […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/jetta1-115x115.jpeg "My 2000 Volkswagen Jetta GLS — Commuting Into Adulthood")
![After about a year owning The Tan Sedan, I started browsing. I told myself I was just looking. But I had been thinking about one vehicle since I was seven […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/grandcherokee-115x115.png "My 1995 Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited – Raised on Lois & Clark")
![I grew up in Tillamook, Oregon — rain, cheese, and the faint smell of cows in the air most mornings. The summer before my freshman year of high school, my […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=928,height=522,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/preview-928x522-2-115x115.jpg "My 1986 Honda Accord – First Taste Of Freedom In The Tan Sedan")
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