It's So Hard To Say Goodbye To Yesterday - R.I.P. Moby D

Since 2001 my transportation needs have been fulfilled using a white 2000 Toyota Camry, nicknamed Moby D by my college roommate Korie.  After 14 long years of devoted service, I've prolonged the inevitable as much as possible and with a leaky engine, a flat tire, brake pads grinding on metal, and a lug nut stud snapping in two all needing to be repaired, Moby D is receiving an honorable discharge.

 

That car has seen a lot of things in its time.  It has traveled more than 350,000 miles, seen the neon lights of Las Vegas, driven roads in a fifth of the United States, and had parts replaced that included a windshield, engine, stereo, and interior roof lining.  I changed the oil in that car like I would change a dirty diaper for Sawyer.  Moby D, for as much grief as people have given me about the car, has been extremely reliable and gotten me home safely many evenings after a late round of poker in Oklahoma or Weatherford.

 

I joked that I would keep this car until either it surpassed one million miles or that I would hand it down to Emery as her first car, but unfortunately neither of those are going to happen.  To put things in perspective for what this means to me, I've had this car longer than the combined ages of all three of my children.  While I understand that it is just a thing and it can be replaced, the memories I had inside that vehicle cannot.  Sure, new memories will be formed in the new car and a new nickname will be coined, but that certainly doesn't minimize the feelings I have right now about putting Moby D out to pasture.

 

It was a good run and hopefully my next car can last just as long as Moby D.  Here is to the last 14 years of exquisite traveling and safe driving in my 2000 Toyota Camry.

 

 

See you at the crossroads, crossroads, crossroads

So you won't be lonely

See you at the crossroads, crossroads, crossroads

So you won't be lonely

See you at the crossroads, crossroads, crossroads

So you won't be lonely

See you at the crossroads, crossroads, crossroads