100001.
Oh no! I missed it by one stinking mile! It hadn't occurred to me that when I left UIndy at 99,959 I would need to pay attention on my drive home so as not to miss Sophia's birthday! But, alas, I did.
I say birthday in a relative term. Birthdays are kind of like life milestones--Oh, congrats, you made it to 30, or to 50, etc. In a car it might be more like 50,000 miles then 100,000, then 200,000, and so on. I have a feeling Sophia will have a long life.
I got Sophia Bellona (goddess of wisdom and war) 6 years ago in April. Days after her delivery to me, she received hail damage during a typical Indiana spring tornadic storm. I never got it fixed. I should have realized it was her lot in life to receive such small, almost incidental, but still annoying dinks. Just this month I discovered a nice dent where a car door slammed into her (during my whirlwind trip to Wheaton), as well as a couple of line scratches in the driver's door from a car wash last week. Nice, Mike's Car Wash. Last fall I had a random fist-sized rock slam into the windshield out of NOWHERE one morning, and this deeply scratched the glass in several places, leaving red traces of the stone. It was weird. And let's not forget a few years ago when she lost an eye. She's been through a lot.
Anyway...despite these setbacks, she carries on, and quite well at that. Sophia has safely transported me at least 3 times to North and South Carolina, once to Michigan, a couple of times to Illinois and Ohio, and all over the state of Indiana. She's a really good car, aside from her very poor venting system (it blows out air even when everything is turned off, which is mostly irritating in the summer when it blows hot wind into the already stifling interior).
Here's a sad little picture I snapped this morning on my way to Marion. As I've traveled nearly 200 miles in 2 days, I only remembered to snap a milestone photo for her as I sat waiting for a light to change. 55 miles over.
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