Today, at just shy of 8 1/2 years, I got to 200,000 miles on my van. We bought it in mid-June 2003 when Riley was 5 months old, and we were travelling to Cleveland a great deal. To be honest I cannot remember where I was when the van got to 100,000 miles. But, I do know that the van was the second vehicle in which I was the original owner and I saw the 100,000 mile mark. The other was my Ford Escort, who only had five digits on the odometer and so went back to zero. We traded the Escort in for a Honda Civic that we had for almost four years before we got the Honda Odyssey.
The van has been on numerous trips to Cleveland and around Ohio as well as just the average everyday driving. It has been the kid mobile as well as a delivery van for the flower shop and Sticks. The distance trips that the van has seen not in any order are: Orlando = two times, Atlanta, Arkansas, Boston/Maine = 3-4 times, Chicago, Atlantic City, Ann Arbor, Port Canaveral, and maybe a few more that I missed.
Ironically, I ran into an old high school friend this summer who drives the same color, year, make, and model of my van. Her van is only eight; she has 54,000 miles on it. I asked her how she was able to keep it so low. She said that she lives/works on the east side, all of her and her husband's families live in town, and with four kids, they could only go on one vacation a year which would be the only long distance they travel. More power to them...
Go baby, keep on going!
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