I took a business trip out to Kansas City a few days ago with the intention of buying a new car for my business. Rather than taking interstate 70, I went up to Salt Lake City and took interstate 80 through Wyoming and Nebraska because there were avalanche warnings through the Colorado and Kansas route. It's really just Colorado, and only really about a third of Colorado is totally mountainous. The mountains end at the easternmost edge of Denver.
Turns out, it wasn't there, although the listing had a stock photo of the car, there really wasn't any reason for me to think that it wouldn't have been there, it wasn't explicitly stated that it wasn't on the lot. I left the dealership empty handed, went to go visit my dad, then headed back to Las Vegas via Oklahoma City, then interstate 40. I'm going to have to settle some kind of tolls I'm sure during that drive through Kansas.
Kansas seems to have switched away from the toll booth system and adopted something similar to what I encountered in Texas years ago: some kind of license plate scanner. I remember a weird incident in Kansas five or six years ago where I came across a toll booth at an on-ramp, or an off-ramp or something, and it was something like 2 AM and I didn't have coins or anything. It was so strange seeing a toll booth at an on-ramp.
The whole car buying thing might be on hiatus for the foreseeable future. Part of the need to buy a car in Kansas City is that I would be able to leave my old car at my dad's house for a while, and I could bring the new car back to Las Vegas to start working again. My car is basically out of service for commercial use, and I really don't know how to deal with this whole thing. I figured I would just buy a new car, and figure out what to do with my old car over the next few months, and I guess now that basically won't work. I wouldn't really be able to drive a sub-compact economy car through the snow.
It's not totally impossible, but, if it could be avoided, it's simply better to avoid it. So, well, I'm basically out of work until the car situation is resolved, and this is kind of the worst possible time too. I have four and a half months and the clock is really ticking hard, and I'm also in school for Spring 2025. I had an idea to simply skip Spring 2025, and then revisit the school idea once Fall 2025 rolled around, but I'm figuring I'll just go for Spring.
Buying a new car is probably out of the question. In fact I think it's totally is out of the question. Nightmare. Many of the rideshare companies don't seem to allow sub-compact cars for taking passengers, and I personally don't want anything larger than a sub-compact car. I also don't actually want to take passengers anyway. I don't really know what to do exactly.
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