Found a photo of the 2003 Odyssey that I drove in my 20s. Ripped this baby all over Northern New Mexico. FWD, basic tires. Snow, mud, gravel, rutted out mountain roads. The handling wouldve probably been better with AWD, but as for getting there, clearance was way more limiting than the drivetrain.
AWD nice to have? Maybe. Necessary because you might hit a forest road or get a few big snows a year? I say nah
EDIT: The person pictured is the columnist who wrote the story, NOT Duke Rodriguez. I didn't realize reddit would blow up the picture so big and should have tried to change it.
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Same guy currently suing to take away New Mexico's universal childcare.
>Here is a sampling of Rodriguez’s messages to the woman in one three-day span:
>Jan. 5, 2020 — “Simple question: Are you seeing or being intimate with others?”
>Jan. 5 — “Thank you. Your silence is clear again just like it was in Vegas when I worried about you not feeling well. What an idiot I was.”
>Jan. 6 — “Please answer yes or no.”
>Jan. 6 — “Can I stop by?”
>Jan. 6 — “Yes or no? Walk?”
>Again on Jan. 6 — Walk?”
>Jan. 7 — “Breakfast?”
>Jan. 7: “Are you free?”
>The woman also presented phone records as evidence against Rodriguez. For instance, her log from Jan. 7 showed Rodriguez phoned her twice, though she had blocked him. That same day, she testified, “He showed up at my condo unannounced and uninvited.”
>The judge, whose name was not apparent in the record, interjected, asking the woman if she had responded to any of those texts from Rodriguez. She said she did not.