My Kia K4: The First Year

Welcome back to #TravelThursday. This past October 22ND marked the 1-year anniversary of the day that I drove to my local Kia dealership and showed my saleswoman who greeted me the new car that I wanted to buy. (It was featured on their web site.) She retrieved the car, drove it to the front of the dealership, and I test drove it with her for a few miles. After that I purchased it. I paid cash for it (no financing). I drove it home.

I love my Kia K4 and all of its modern features and technology. Hopefully I’ll have it for a long time as my retirement car. Hopefully nobody crashes into it (like my previous retirement car).

I drove 7,420 miles during my first year of ownership. That actually included 8 round-trips to and from Homestead Florida. The outlook for my second year of ownership is perhaps 4,000 to 4,500 miles – an average of about 350 miles per month. (I may visit Homestead once before next October.)

Looks like I’m settling into a “stay close to home” low-mileage groove. I haven’t exceeded 500 miles in a month for the past 4 months in a row – soon to be 5 months with this month. (I’d exceeded 500 miles in the previous 28 out of 29 months.) This past August I only drove 256 miles. That was the lowest in a month since September 2021. And then last month (October) I only drove 225 miles. I wonder if I can manage under 200 miles in a single month ? I haven’t done that since the year of COVID.

I do want to embark on a few road-trips here in the local area of South-Central Florida during these upcoming winter and spring months. I need more material for future editions of #TravelThursday.

Speaking of which – #TravelThursday takes the week off next week for Thanksgiving here in the U.S.A. In 2 weeks – on Thursday December 04TH – I’ll begin a multiple part series about my adventures and experiences with family in North Texas. Let’s keep traveling together.