Goodbye Penny

For those of you who know me well you know my love/obsession with my 98 Honda Passport. For everyone else--you are about to find out. I got the car when I was 16 and we have been through everything together. High school, college, med school --I even brought Sawyer home in that car. It is full of so many memories. It is even a joke among my friends that I would drive that car to my high school reunion. I believed I would too. But I am sorry to say that this Christmas I had to let Penny go. Yes, I name my cars and she was named Penny Passport.

It started on the way home to Amarillo--we had a blowout. To be honest a very bad blowout. We were lucky that we didn't have a wreck. Luckily we were near Quanah so Heath's family was able to come out and save us. But we needed to put new tires on the car. And this started a conversation about what if more work had to be done to the car. All of our family has been telling me that I need a new car. The problem was I didn't want a new car. I was perfectly happy with Penny--she wasn't perfect but she was perfect for me. I wanted Penny to make it through residency and make it to 100,000 miles. But after a long talk and some crying, Heath and I came to the conclusion that if the car needed work it might cost more than the car is worth. So we decided to buy a new car especially because now is a great time to buy.


By chance we saw an add in the Wichita paper for Tahoe Hybrid for a great deal. So on the way home depsite me being sick as a dog, we stopped in Henrietta to look. At first we were not impressed the car had the word "HYBRID" written down the side. We both hated it. But then the dealer came out and we asked if you could paint over it. He said, "oh it is just a sticker it can come off". Well that changed everything. We looked inside and much to our surprise it was fully loaded-leather, navigation, dvd player, back up camera and anything else you could imagine. They were making such a great deal on it because it was an 08. So it was fate! And now I am proud to introduce Tori Tahoe--I hope we go at least 10 tears together.