Trail rated 2008 Yaris hit 300,000 miles today

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Originally Posted by RutherfordmanX

Sorry to hear about your car nookandcrannycar.

Thanks.

I have become somewhat attached to mine as I taught both my girls to drive with it.

Part of the reason I'm attached to mine is my little cousin's interaction with my blue Yaris. She was 4 when I bought it, and she loved to climb around inside and open and close all the lids. She decorated some plastic eggs, gave them names and biographies, and then had me store them in one of the glove boxes. When she was 7, she liked to sit in the driver's seat and pretend she was driving (in a flat, empty parking lot with me next to her keeping an eye and making sure the car (no keys in it) stayed put. Those were the days. Time flies by too fast. She's 13 now.

When you clock that many miles on a car you have practically lived in it so it becomes more like your house than a car. I commute from the mountains east of Asheville into Charlotte and as you can imagine I have had my share of close calls. Run off the road by trucks and hit all kind of stuff. The car took a beating from ice storms when I lived up on top of the mountain too so it ain't pretty no more.

I've driven my blue Yaris to all of the lower 48 states, from Niagara Falls, NY to Toronto, and to all four corners of the country (both Lubec and Madawaska in Maine, both Key West and the A1A between Fort Lauderdale and Palm Beach in Florida, both Blaine and Cape Flattery in Washington, and in California...the parking lot at Border Field State Park near San Diego, the southwesternmost point that is the farthest west). I drove on many quality roads over the 300k miles, but also some roads with incredibly bad potholes, some gravel roads, and a couple of dirt roads.I spent some time in Asheville and some nearby towns in 2013. Breathtakingly beautiful area....the drive down to SC on the interstate...The Blue Ridge Parkway....etc. . I have yet to make it into Charlotte...except through the airport twice on multi leg flights. I'll make it there eventually. My godson and his family live in Weddington Chase (near Waxhaw).