Beep at carmax, waiting to be adopted...
Walking from carmax to trax...and waiting for the next train.
Well, we did it. We sold Beep. No more quick runs to the store or spontaneous drives to the mountains. We are going to have to plan better or just hoof it.
It's amazing how attached you can get to an inanimate object, and how you can identify yourself by it. We bought Beep (Black Jeep) back in 2006, which is the longest either of us have had a vehicle, with only like 26 miles on it. We left him today with 26,116... I think. We have been to Moab, Escalante, Zions, the Uinta's and many other places over the past few years. We have gained two members of our family (2 dogs, which for us are like our kids) since getting Beep and they have learned to love riding in the back, especially with the seat out, the dog bed in, and the top down! They have both learned to recognize jeeps and go a little crazy when they see one on the road, excited that they are going somewhere. Happy even added her little 'special touch' by poking her head out the back window and creating a huge rip in the plastic...but it became her 'spot' whenever we got in the jeep.
We have been through a lot with Beep, and are happy that we always got wherever we were going safely. I'll miss driving him, but am ready to move on to our new adventure of being car independent. We'll still drive from time to time, by either using ucarshare or renting, but we will be free of the monthly car payments, free of the insurance and gas and maintenance. We won't have to worry about it being broken into (as it has twice in the past year) or pay for parking, or even find parking (for the most part). But there will defiantly be challenges of not having a car...some of which I'm sure I don't even know about yet, but that's all part of the fun, right??
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