Last week we signed up and joinged Zipcar ... we'd been looking into hiring a car for a little while, but Zipcar is a bit different from Avis or Hertz. It's more of a car sharing thing than car hiring - you pay a small yearly fee, then you're able to hire cars for half an hour to four days at a time.
They have cars dotted around all over New York in designated car park spaces - we have a car park just round the corner from our apartment that we can us, but we were after a specific car so we had to go to a different car park just a couple of stops away on the subway.
You unlock the car using a member's card, and once you've got the car you can use an app on your phone to lock and unlock it and even honk the horn incase you lose the car! It's all incredibly clever and we have been so impressed with the idea and how easy it all is.
As I said, we were after a specific kind of car, a car that's suitable for the adventure we had planned, so we hired Tawny for the day, a big, shiny red pick-up truck!
I think it might have been the same kind of truck that Top Gear modified to go to the North Pole in...? Regardless, it was a beautiful machine and had plenty of cup holders.
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