Today Diane and I drove my parents car to the Good News Garage and donated it. My folks have had this car since 2002 (I think).. and still only 92,000 miles. My mom very generously gave us the car whnen she moved to Minniapolis a few weeks ago. At the time, her mechanic felt it had several good years left in it. We were thinkign that Gabe could have used it. Unfortunatley when we took it to get checked out, our mechanic quickly spotted several expensive problems.. They would have cost more than the car is worth to fix them…
So we decided to doante the car instead..
I have to admit it was a little emotional for me droppign the car off.. It’s the last car my dad ever drove.. I spent the tiem driving in to town thinkign of my folks driving aroudn in that cr.. it’s a good little car.. it drove well..and it even smelled like my parents.. !
the process to donate the car was pretty easy.. I encourage anyone that has an older car to consider charities like the good news garage here in Burlington. This is the 3rd car we’ve donated.. and we still see one of them driving around from time to time. It’s a great way to make a difference for a family somewhere..
Later after work, DIane , Gabe, the dogs and I went up Libby’s Lookout. It was a beautiful night ! You could see the last rays of sun on Camels hump
I love the layerign of maintains.. the bigger ones in the distance are the Adorondaks in NY..
So grateful to live in a place like this..
Nite all, nite sam
-me