“Now, I owe it to myself to tell you, Mr. Griswold, that if you are thinking of taking the tribe cross country, this is your automobile. The Wagon Queen Family Truckster. You think you hate it now, but wait till you drive it.” Ed, car salesman in National Lampoon’s Vacation
We’re back after a long weekend trip from MI to NY to pick up the car, with a diversion to Niagara Falls on the way home. The trip was uneventful, although it looks like we threw a water pump on the car as I’m getting a pretty steady drip of coolant from the front of the motor now.
The falls were great - a definite must-see if you go through that area of the US. I’ve posted a picture to the long-neglected photoblog.
It’s strange, but there was something classically American about loading up the family in a big station wagon and heading for a popular tourist area….
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