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Haven't tried hi-test in the Golf yet but haven't had it on the highway in a bit either. 90% of my driving is in a maybe 10 mile radius from the house and have been averaging a 1/4 of a tank every 2 weeks, give or take. Filled up on the 9th of March and as of today, a week later, have used a 1/4 of the tank...4 16th's if you will. I stayed home last Wednesday as I had nowhere I needed to be, so don't do any unnecessary driving at this point. Have done just over 2K miles, 2035 miles to be exact, since my last oil change on 7/25/24, if my crude figures are correct. So, still saying I average around 3K miles/year with my insurance company. Planning a trip to Northern Florida some time in May to see the girls and the new grand-dog and thinking of renting something smallish from work. Especially since I think I'll still have the Golf on my side of the garage, would rather put those miles on a small rental. Something like the Rav4 we had last time or even a Corolla Cross since it'll just be the two of us driving up to Orlando & St. Augustine. With our employee discount and summer rates in Florida, think the weekly charge won't be that much at all. And don't want to tempt the fates with anything going wrong with the Golf.

I know my single daughter wants me to move in up there & just come back down every 90 days to see my pain doctor. That would mean giving up Enterprise which would be just fine with me. I know my wife is talking about going another couple of years until she cuts back to only TurboTax plus her private clients. This way, I could get a good look at which area we want to end up at. The oldest & her husband live just south of Orlando, St. Cloud, and have no plans to move any time soon. Hoping for our daughter in St. Augustine to re-locate down to the Orlando area also as we'd like to be within a 45 minute drive between both of them...an hour at tops. I mean FaceTime is nice & all but we'd like to see each other much more often as we miss them & they us. Haven't met the grand-dog yet either in person so don't want to miss these moments with them any longer. And we're not the kind of parents to just come over whenever we like as we understand sometimes too much is well, too much! But the time to finally move out of South Florida is approaching...sooner then later!