So Long, Old Paint

It all started with a single flashing light on the dashboard...which turned out to be the indication that the complicated and expensive hybrid battery was no longer functioning as designed. Rats. And after some research, we ended up with quotes from $6000 top $13000 to replace it. That's far more than the car was worth. Sigh.

We'd had some wonderful adventures with this car. We bought it when we bought our cabin above Sonora, so it was involved in all of the work to fix that up---and it carried far too many building supplies in those first two years. Then we took it on the road, to innumerable trailheads in the Sierra and many times down into the wilds of Death Valley. It never let us down--at least, not until a few weeks ago, when the odometer was reading well over 200,000 miles. Very few repairs, and it was still getting more than 32 mpg the day it died. Sigh.

It's off as a donation to benefit the Sierra Club. And since we recently installed new brakes, new rotors, and new tires, we hope that the Sierra Club will get some value for it.

Farewell, Old Paint. You done us proud.