{"id":29835,"date":"2017-08-23T11:30:45","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T16:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dolly.com\/blog\/?p=1918"},"modified":"2026-04-28T07:53:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:53:02","slug":"dolly-helped-car-free-family-enjoy-outdoors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taskrabbit.com\/blog\/dolly-helped-car-free-family-enjoy-outdoors\/","title":{"rendered":"How Dolly Helped a Car-Free Family Enjoy the Outdoors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Like many city dwellers, Seattleites Linda and Devin don\u2019t own a car. Between public transportation, ridesharing services, and their home\u2019s proximity to downtown, Linda and Devin have never really felt the need to own a vehicle. That is, until they decided to buy a paddle board.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>The Perfect Place for a Paddle Board<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Linda and Devin have a home that lends itself well to sports like paddle boarding: \u201cWe live on a houseboat in the middle of Lake Union!\u201d In Seattle, Lake Union is a famous spot for watersports, especially paddle boarding and rowing. So when Linda and Devin saw a paddle board at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.costco.com\/\">Costco<\/a>, they knew it would be the perfect way to enjoy the summer heat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1921 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/dolly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Linda-Paddleboard-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"598\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taskrabbit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Linda-Paddleboard-2.png 598w, https:\/\/www.taskrabbit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Linda-Paddleboard-2-300x286.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But there was one small snag. \u201cSince we don\u2019t have a car, we didn\u2019t have a way to transport our Costco-purchased paddleboard to our little home on the water.\u201d That\u2019s when <a href=\"https:\/\/dolly.com\/?utm_source=blog&amp;utm_medium=blog-paddleboard\">Dolly<\/a> dove right in to help.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Paddle On Home<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once Devin and Linda had purchased the paddleboard, they knew just the service to use to bring it home. \u201cI saw an ad for Dolly\u00a0once when I was researching movers. Now I use it quite often for lots of tasks, big and small.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1922 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/dolly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Linda-Paddleboard-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"598\" height=\"594\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That includes their new paddleboard, which Dolly picked up from Costco and delivered to their Lake Union houseboat on the same day. \u201cWe recommend Dolly to all of our close relatives and friends. It\u2019s so helpful, especially when we don\u2019t have a car!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thanks to Dolly, Linda and Devin can explore their beautiful home on the lake on their paddleboard, and they even paddle around with their two-year-old son on board.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like many city dwellers, Seattleites Linda and Devin don\u2019t own a car. 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