To Skip from Grace - car talk

 This is a super fun idea from Grace. I know he will love it. It reminds me of a couple of Skip's car stories. We told him he could take our old Saab back to his college in Vermont after winter break of his freshman year if he had a B average - which he did. That car made it through all 4 years and then headed out to Tahoe where it spent a couple more years. He drove it to Iowa and took off for a nomadic phase of a year in Chile with side trips to Argentina and Easter Island. We had never bothered to transfer the title.

As a mom, I did not think the Saab was safe any more and didn't trust that he'd pay attention to the brake maintenance, etc when he returned to Tahoe. I convinced MrWilson to sell it while Skip was gone to force *us* into figuring out a better car. About 3 days after Skip returned from Chile my dad died and my mom did not drive so Skip inherited a marvelous vehicle - a true grandpa car - a Chevy Lumina. That car lasted for a really long time -- until that time he headed out with friends in the Tahoe area to ski the backcountry. That's where you just park on the side of the road and hike into the wilderness. As he returned to the car he thought, "That's strange, I thought I parked the car facing the other direction." As he got closer and saw the other side of the car he discovered that someone had hit the car hard enough to turn it 180-degrees. The car was totaled, but he got way more from the insurance than he would have if he had traded it in, so it was a win-win. 

In true Skip-the-minimalist fashion, he found a place to park the totaled car and used it for a storage unit for ski gear for a while - until he emigrated to Canada in 2020.