Wowza... I had a pretty immediate change in faith.

[SirFer]

Hey all. I haven't posted a whole lot on here, especially lately, and I've got a confession. It's mainly because I was looking at getting rid of my '07 H2... I'm a 17 year old kid, and parents wanted the H2 strictly for safety after I got in a wreck in an Xterra and it was totalled with me and 3 friends inside. I loved the H2 when I first got it, it fit in quite nicely down here in South Florida (Boca Raton), the Glacier Blue and healthy helpings of chrome go a long way down here. After awhile though, I got kinda tired of the H2. I knew I needed an SUV at the time because I surf quite a bit, and was mainly into longboarding at the time so needed something that could carry 9' logs. I also lived a few minutes away from the boat ramps so I needed something to trailer my jetskis around. So the H2 was a good choice. Then the gas mileage started getting old, and the lack of acceleration. I was doing alot of city driving so I was on a first name basis with most of the gas station guys. Then over summer I moved to a house on the water with jetski lifts in the backyard so no need to trailer anymore, and I all but stopped longboarding and went to shortboards. So then I started looking at other cars, yes cars. SUVs were out. I was looking at nice cheap fast cars that would leave me money left over from a sale of the H2 to trick out... I'm not entirely sure what I was thinking. I had a slight change in faith when I decided that North Carolina is definitely where I'll be going to college so an SUV would be nice in the snow, but I was still thinking the H2 could use a catback exhaust, an aircharger, and maybe some 22" wheels, possibly 24"s... Negotiations were in the works with the parents for those things between my grades and all. And then on Saturday it all changed. I finally went off-road, first time in 11 months of ownership that I ever put it in 4 Hi Locked. Alot of the trails were flooded out and/or muddy, and I was following my friend in his H3. I can honestly say, it's probably the most fun I've ever had. I was a religious washer, interior and exterior, every Saturday morning to keep the chrome shining until Saturday. I had so much fun tearing through mud and trails. fording ponds that I only had vague ideas of depth. (I learned that I should not trust vague ideas when I got halfway through a little flooded out pond and hit a dropoff that brought water up to my hood handles, though the H2 handled it quite nicely, plowed right on through with no trouble, then had to go back through the same dropoff to leave, and after a check upon returning home none the worse for the wear after being almost submerged for a few seconds. Got home Saturday afternoon and didn't bother washing it, figured I had so much fun I'd go back yesterday, so I did. Once again, most fun I've ever had. I have mud everywhere, a quarter inch thick on the sides, and once I was spinning the tires in some mud and heard "plop plop plop" on my roof and realized it was the mud flying up and hitting the roof. I had a complete change of faith. Not only do I never want to own anything but an H2 again, I also don't want silly shiny performance and appearance parts, just anything that'll make it even more beastly out on the trail. I have no problem with people who bling out their rigs, but I've finally found my calling on the trail and don't think I'll change my mind anytime soon. Most of my friends who used to get rides off me so they could be seen in the big baby blue chrome H2 are now disgusted by the mud covering everything and don't want to ride anywhere near me even and I'm loving it. Just thought I'd share, and let you know I'll probably have lots of questions about general Hummer stuff and how to make my off road experiences even more fun.