Now, the Sentra, as you all know, has seen better days. Even with its custom paint job. I've been parking it here at the apartment in one of the few shady spots. Shade is important. Of course parking under a tree usually means one thing: bird plotz.
Santa Fe is, — in case you missed this part — in the desert. That means not much water. Especially when you're in a 20-year drought. Even with the record snows and following spring runoff this year, we're still under "stage 2" drought conditions. I'm not sure exactly what that entails (fines for excess household water usage is part of it, I think), but it is actually illegal to wash your car, yourself, at your house. So, off to Squeaky Clean Car Wash I went. They did a great job, including vacuuming out the interior (which hadn't been done since, oh, I dunno... the Clinton administration, maybe?), washing all the glass, inside + out, removing the 1/8 inch of pollen + dust form the dash + console, and toweling it off after.
Stopped for gas on the way home. Prices in Santa Fe currently are pretty uniformly $2.39/gal for regular unleaded. Ouch. The price has spiked here in the last couple of weeks, and I was hoping they'd drop before I was running on fumes. No such luck. NOTE to DeGEESTS, IF YOU'RE READING THIS ON THE ROAD: Tank up in TEXAS! At the Shell station, pulled in next to this guy, who kindly let me take his picture:
It's a 1939 Chevy flatbed pickup. He said he's only the 3rd owner, and he uses it everyday (not just out for the 4th). It was running while he was filling it (yikes!), because the starter was busted. He also said that his favorite thing to do is drive it up to the Opera, and have the tailgate dinner on the flatbed. So cool, and so Santa Fe.
wooah wo, come on sing it with me... carwash...
4 comments:
Are Paul & T coming out there to visit??!! When!!!????
Gas prices here (okay, I feel a little weird discussing this when we aren't sitting at the counter at the Milford diner and we aren't - to my knowledge - wearing feed store caps) range from $2.29 in Milford to $2.17 in Rehoboth Beach (who knows...more competition I guess)...to about $2.05 in Dover if I remember to let the tank go low before going to the Safeway - you get an extra $.06 a gallon off gas when you buy over $50.00 worth of food (yeah, like that's hard...I mean...even though you can't buy beer or wine in the grocery store...there's ice cream and steak and all...)...so, anyway, it's only $2.05 ERPG(effective rate per gallon)...the drawback being I must plan to go to the grocery store...with my bitch of a schedule...I don't know how people do it...seriously...
Mel, they're here NOW!!! just got back from spending the afternoon with them (Paul + T + Audrey + Trish (T's mom) + Kelly + Julie + Jodie (sp? Julie's sister) + John (Jodie's husband).
I guess it's good they didn't bring Annie, too. :)
WOW!!! What a fun full house! Tell everyone I said Hi! and sorry that I'll miss the fun times sure to be had by all...
Happy Fourth -
Love you,
Mel
more like a full hotel! ;)
I'll tell them you say hi. we miss you too!
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