Are We There Yet?!

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If your life is any­thing like mine, the wish for things to slow down between work, kids, school, appoint­ments and activ­i­ties rarely comes to fruition! By the end of the day, I am often left feel­ing like there was sim­ply not enough time to accom­plish every­thing on my to do list. Sound famil­iar?! Though many schools around the coun­try have already been out for vaca­tion for days or maybe even weeks, my daugh­ter’s last day of school is actu­al­ly {final­ly} TODAY! So, on top of fin­ish­ing work and meet­ing dead­lines, I’ve had to prep for the end of school with teacher gifts and par­ty sup­plies, while also get­ting ready for my daugh­ter’s swim meet this week­end and our annu­al Sum­mer road trip!!!

Ever since my fam­i­ly and I moved to Las Vegas, we have tak­en advan­tage of the fact that my hus­band is a teacher and gets the Sum­mers off by tak­ing a road trip to Cal­i­for­nia to vis­it our friends and fam­i­ly every sin­gle year. And since my par­ents are in town and offer to house and pet sit while we’re gone, we can go for longer stretch­es and less wor­ries! We’ve been doing it since my daugh­ter, Anabelle, was born, so we’re for­tu­nate that she is so used long car rides that she nev­er com­plains. As a mat­ter of fact, I think my hus­band will attest to the fact that I’m the one usu­al­ly ask­ing, Are we there yet?! But I tru­ly do cher­ish these annu­al trips that allow us to con­nect face-to-face with our loved ones who live many miles away and give us the oppor­tu­ni­ty to bond with their grow­ing fam­i­lies! These adven­tures are what mem­o­ries are made of and I hope to con­tin­ue this tra­di­tion for years and years to come!

We start our jour­ney every year from Las Vegas, Neva­da and make var­i­ous stops in both North­ern and South­ern Cal­i­for­nia, often dri­ving through small, remote towns in both states. Com­ing from the desert, it’s always such a treat to play at the beach and enjoy all the gor­geous trees we’re not used to see­ing! And since we put so many miles on our cars in var­i­ous cli­mates and loca­tions, we always make sure that part of the prep for our trips includes mak­ing sure the car is run­ning well to avoid any issues on the road. Since our week­end is going to be super busy with Anabelle’s swim meet, birth­day par­ties and an ear­ly Father’s Day cel­e­bra­tion, I knew I would­n’t have much time to get the car checked before our trip. So, I decid­ed to mul­ti-task by drop­ping it off at our local Wal­mart Auto­mo­tive Care Cen­ter to get the oil changed while I shopped for sup­plies for our road trip! I can’t even begin to tell you how much nicer it is that I can shop while the car is get­ting worked on, rather than hav­ing to sit around and wait at a car shop!

Not only does hav­ing the oil changed at Wal­mart allow me to get my shop­ping done and cross off items on my to do list {that’s the best feel­ing, isn’t it?!}, but I espe­cial­ly pre­fer going there because they offer the Pennzoil brand. We would always opt specif­i­cal­ly for Pennzoil’s High Mileage Vehi­cle oil since both of our cars had almost 200,000 miles on them {see, I told you we dri­ve A LOT!}. We could trust that it would help to avoid leaks and keep the engine run­ning clean to lessen our wor­ries, express­ly on our long trips in iso­lat­ed stretch­es of road, because Pennzoil is allows us to dri­ve an extra 550 miles per year vs. our old engines if we did not keep them up.

Since our last trip, we got a NEW car which we are super excit­ed to take on our first long dri­ve! That being said, we were tak­en by sur­prise the first time we had to get its oil changed and were told it required syn­thet­ic oil, which the deal­er com­mu­ni­cat­ed was a much high­er price! Eek! I was SO relieved to find out that Pennzoil also offered its Plat­inum Full Syn­thet­ic oil at a much low­er cost than the indus­try stan­dard! Plus, due to Pennzoil’s free war­ran­ty cov­er­ing var­i­ous engine parts that may fail due to exces­sive wear, it pro­vides us extra peace of mind. We know that even if we are far from home, we are covered!

Now that the car’s all set to go and my shop­ping list is tak­en care of, I feel a lot less stressed and much more pre­pared to leave on our road trip! Plus, I found out that start­ing today through Sep­tem­ber 9th, Pennzoil oil changes will be on Roll­back at Wal­mart Auto­mo­tive Care Cen­ter stores, so once we return, I’ll be tak­ing our high mileage car in as well! Here are the details:

♥ High Mileage $35.88, com­pared to the reg­u­lar Wal­mart price of $39.88.

{Indus­try stan­dard price is $46}

♥ Plat­inum Full Syn­thet­ic $45.88, com­pared to the reg­u­lar Wal­mart price of $49.88.

{Indus­try stan­dard price is $66}

What are your fam­i­ly’s Sum­mer traditions?!

Merci Beaucoup!

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