[Jared]: For several months now, I have been anticipating a very important milestone in the life of my car, Tracy. For those of you who have not met her, she is a light blue '94 Toyota Tercel. She gets 40mpg on the highway and has been with me for almost 8 years now. She's taken me from St. Louis, to Chicago, to Virginia, DC, and NYC, and even survived a cross country drive from Richmond, VA to San Diego, CA. It's fair to say I love my car. As such, I've been eagerly looking forward to her turning 200,000 miles old.
Unfortunately, about a week ago it became clear that I was going to be out of the country for this milestone. I am (theoretically) going to be in Warsaw, Poland, next week for the European Wind Energy Conference (EWEC). Assuming the Icelandic volcano does not interrupt my travel, I'll be flying out tomorrow. Anyway, needless to say, I have been a little sad that I wasn't going to get to see Tracy roll over to 200K. What I forgot to account for was that I have a thoughtful wife who loves me a lot! Yesterday Beth ran some extra errands (and took the very long way to get there) to purposefully run up Tracy's mileage so that she would flip this morning on my way to work. It was sweet of her and made for a fun morning:
Unfortunately, about a week ago it became clear that I was going to be out of the country for this milestone. I am (theoretically) going to be in Warsaw, Poland, next week for the European Wind Energy Conference (EWEC). Assuming the Icelandic volcano does not interrupt my travel, I'll be flying out tomorrow. Anyway, needless to say, I have been a little sad that I wasn't going to get to see Tracy roll over to 200K. What I forgot to account for was that I have a thoughtful wife who loves me a lot! Yesterday Beth ran some extra errands (and took the very long way to get there) to purposefully run up Tracy's mileage so that she would flip this morning on my way to work. It was sweet of her and made for a fun morning:
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