u/herpetolojay

I'm planning a trip to the Olympic peninsula in August. I typically will camp nearby and do day hikes of 5-10 miles. Hiking 5 miles takes a lot longer when you're wandering and flipping. I am still in the fence about backpacking vs camping but I will probably be in the sol duc/hoh area. My targets would be rubber boas and salamanders, but pretty much anything out there will be a lifer for me. Any advice is welcome.

I own a 8 year old 2nd gen chevy cruze. It has some minor dings, a windshield chip that was filled by safelite, and some upholstery stains from the kiddos. It runs pretty good with 150k miles, but I feel the trans starting to down shift kinda rough when braking. It was appraised at a dealer for 2500. It's need an evap repair that runs about 1200 plus a tune up and it's going to need new tires soon.

I work for a car company and one of our benefits is we can get a discounted lease through the company of a range of their vehicles. Drive the car for 6k miles or 6 months and pick a new one when one of those is hit. All maintenence and insurance is included in the lease and for the models I look at it's around 400 a month.

The downside is you have no equity and are left without a car if you were to leave the company. Plus the monthly payment when I currently don't have one. So my plan is to get the lease for 6 months, drive the cruze for 6 months, lease for 6 months, drive the cruze. Meanwhile keep up with routine maintenence on my cruze and maybe some small fixes here and there, but not put any big money into the cruze. Thoughts?