May 2004, just about 7 years ago, we bought a brand new Ford Focus ZTS. Its turn signal sounded like a metronome, and we started calling it the 'nome for short, and now just the Gnome. Its has been a great car! That year they tried out a larger engine with the ZTS, making it quite zippy, and we have driven it all over. Off the top of my head, I can remember a few drives from Nebraska to Arizona and back, a few roundtrip drives between Nebraska, Yellowstone and Arizona, a spring break tour of Colorado, research trips to Alberta and Montana, a huge trip from Nebraska to Yellowstone to Washington to Utah to Arizona and back to Nebraska, a conference in St. Cloud, MN, 3 trips to Table Rock Lake, 5-6 trips to Kansas City, 3-4 trips to Des Moines, countless drives to Omaha and back, and probably a few others I am forgetting. Good times.
Well, the Gnome just hit 100,000 miles!
(I pulled over in a rainstorm just outside Kearney to snap the pic)
I was going to do a big grand post, filled with pictures of us and our car and all of our adventures, but ran into a problem. While we have taken thousands of pictures at the places we have gone in our car, the car is never in the pictures - not even in the background! There are quite a few taken on road through the windsheild or out the window of things we saw...but not of the car itself. I was a bit disappointed. So, here are the few pictures of the car we have. Not very exciting.
22 July 2004. Beaver Creek, NE.
31 August 2005. Someone rear-ended Juls (barely). We had to take pics for the insurance. One bummer is that we had those awesome AZ WA stickers, but they had to replace our bent trunk, so the stickers were lost. We had quite a debate over whether it would be AZWA or WAAZ.
12 July 2009. We got a flat tire in the middle of nowhere in Wyoming. So, this is Ems in a Walmart parking lot after having the tire fixed. Evanston, I think.
26 July 2009. Gassing up. Somewhere in Alberta, I think.
26 June 2010. The Starr sisters decorated the car for Julianne's 30th birthday. Guess who cleaned all the grease paint off? Not Julianne.
Here's to another 100k!
22 July 2004. Beaver Creek, NE.
1 April 2005. Hulses pranked us by covering our car with newspaper. We got them back by piling about 4 ft. of newspapers against their front door.
31 August 2005. Someone rear-ended Juls (barely). We had to take pics for the insurance. One bummer is that we had those awesome AZ WA stickers, but they had to replace our bent trunk, so the stickers were lost. We had quite a debate over whether it would be AZWA or WAAZ.
12 July 2009. We got a flat tire in the middle of nowhere in Wyoming. So, this is Ems in a Walmart parking lot after having the tire fixed. Evanston, I think.
26 July 2009. Gassing up. Somewhere in Alberta, I think.
26 June 2010. The Starr sisters decorated the car for Julianne's 30th birthday. Guess who cleaned all the grease paint off? Not Julianne.
Here's to another 100k!
1 comment:
Glad to see you have a pic of our car art since we were convinced you guys were mad since the car was cleaned off when we saw you early the next morning at the Y. My other favorite memory of this car - when Theresa put PB under the door handles after the FHE auction.
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