When I moved out to New Mexico in the summer of 2002, a friend from Boston who was originally from Albuquerque let me use the car that she kept in NM in return for paying her insurance. In February of 2003, I ended up buying it from her. It was a 1990 Subaru Legacy wagon, and it was the first car I ever owned.

Today, I sold the Subaru.

I put it in the Los Alamos Lemon Lot last week and I gotta tell ya, that thing really works. It's a parking lot owned by the county that you can get a permit (for free) to park your car in. Every car in the lot is for sale by owner and people go there to browze. I've been wanting to sell the Subaru for a long time because I never drive it anymore. I waited to put it in the lemon lot until May because that's when all the highschool kids are graduating and need beaters for college, plus all the Lab's summer students are showing up and some of them probably need cars too.

The first day I had it in the lot, I got six calls from interested parties. After two test drives and two offers for my asking price, I withdrew the car from the lot and stopped responding to inquiries. I ended up selling the car for $200 more than I bought it for in the first place - you don't see that too often!

I just know that, now that I am down to a single vehicle, my truck is going to break down and need some kind of repair that will take a week or something. It probably won't happen until Nina leaves for grad school, leaving me truly stranded. Mark my words. :)