We aimed to make it to Salt Lake City on Day One (a stout 850 or so miles), and then an easy cruise to Wyoming on Day Two.Īlready best buds, the two young dogs settled in with each other with astonishing ease. ![]() Google Maps pegged the trip at 1078 miles slashing through Nevada, Utah, and Idaho. ![]() But keep that thing closed, and there’s barely any noticeable additional wind noise. Open the CR-V’s sunroof with the box in place and there’s some irritating turbulence. The box itself isn’t much more than a plastic shell, but it can be opened from either the left or right side, is wedge-shaped for aerodynamic efficiency, and doesn’t weigh much itself. Honda lists the box’s weight capacity at 110 lbs, and we were maybe 20 or 30 lbs shy of that. The 65-inch-long, 34.5-inch-wide rooftop cargo carrier easily swallowed my soft carry-on sized bag, my wife’s similar hard-shell bag, 31 pounds (two bags) of Science Diet dry dog food and a foldable dog crate. Thirteen cubic feet doesn’t seem like much-it’s 1.8 cubes short of the trunk space in a 2023 Civic sedan-but it’s all flat and useful. Nina was thrilled to spend six days traveling across America with her parents and her Bassett Hound puppy Cleo. Nina would perch in the second row alongside whatever didn’t fit in the roof box, and Dana and I would share driving. Cleo and my 21-month-old chocolate lab Caroline would be riding in the way back together. And along with her came her seven-month-old basset hound puppy, Cleo. Nina, our 22-year-old daughter home from college, amazingly agreed to come with us. And some fights are better avoided than won. Family trips are not always about agreement. “So, it’s cheap, we’ll stop and get some along the way…” I responded as she added two one-gallon jugs of Kirkland Signature drinking water in the foot well behind the driver’s seat. “But the dogs will need it,” she contended. “We don’t need to carry water with us,” I argued with my wife Dana as we loaded up the CR-V on the Monday leading up to Memorial Day weekend. Right now, though, good luck finding a dealer willing to let a top-end CR-V hybrid go out at sticker. Not cheap, but safely below the $48,000+ average new car price in 2023. Throw in the $39,100 cost of the vehicle, $455 for the “Still Night Pearl” blue paint, and the expected $1295 destination charge holdup and the total cost of this 21 st Century, gas-electric, Family Truckster came in at $42,093. From the accessories catalog, Honda included the crossbars for the roof rack ($280), a roof box with 13 cubic feet of lockable storage ($523), thick all-season rubber mats ($200), a dog-resistant plastic cargo tray ($130) and seat back protectors ($110). ![]() That’s just outside of Jackson Hole and near Yellowstone National Park. The crossroads and cultural hub of Central Utah.Īnd so it was that Honda lent us a 2023 CR-V AWD Sport Touring Hybrid for a trip from our home in Santa Barbara, California to the Fireside Resort in Wilson, Wyoming. This is the Maverik station in Fillmore, Utah.
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