I love my Pilot!

We got a new Honda Pilot last Wednesday and I LOVE IT!!!! The hubby got all of the bells and whistles installed after-market and once they are all 100% working and my windows are tinted and the tow hitch is on, I will be ECSTATIC.

The last two days have pretty much sealed the deal that I love my Pilot even more than I loved my Accord (2003 EX white coupe, tan interior). Yesterday morning I'm on the freeway going about 70 mph when all of a sudden there is a ladder laying in my lane (the car in front of me swerved at the last minute narrowly missing it). Knowing that I'm in a SUV and could roll easily and that I was fairly high up, I do not swerve as wildly as I would have in my low to the ground, demon possessed Lexus. I run over the ladder with my front driver's side tire. No loud noises and no severe jarring...basically it felt like I drove over a speed bump. HOW AWESOME IS THAT?! Imagine what would have happened in the Lexus?!

This morning there was a motorcycle accident that caused the 91 to be down to a single lane at Pierce. My kick ass navigation system also has XM Traffic Alert. It paid for itself today. Typically when there's an accident reported I play phone a friend to determine where traffic breaks up and where I can get back on the freeway. Navi does this for me! Not only does it shade my route (extremely accurately) in either green, yellow, or red for the average speed of travel, but it puts an alert button at the place of the accident and at the place traffic begins flowing freely. If I click on the button I get details of the accident/point of free flow. How AMAZING is that?! It will also tell me the average speed for a particular stretch of freeway. I'm in love.

This brings up another topic - motorcycle accidents on the 91. Seriously, with all of the carnage I've seen/sat through over the last few years, I don't see how anyone could see the benefit of zipping through traffic to be worth the substantially increased risk of becoming road kill. I know someone that was killed on a motorcycle within 5 miles of his house and someone that was killed by a drunk driver late at night riding home from work, but rush hour motorcycle riders are IDIOTS!! I still can't get the image of the guy that ended up on top of a semi trailer out of my head.