— Village of Oak Creek, Sedona, AZ

This is my new love, Sylvie.

She’s 17 years old. I’m 57. So it’s a May/December relationship.

Last August, I put a search bot on Craigslist with three terms: “manual transmission, high performance, under $10,000.”

On Leap Day, February 29th of this year, after six months of poor responses, I received pictures of Sylvie from San Antonio, Texas. I flew there, and met, fell in love with, and bought her.

Sylvie and I have just completed the 1100 miles from San Antonio, Texas to Sedona, Arizona by traveling in the early morning and at night to avoid the heat.

The highlight of the journey was when Sylvie achieved 100,000 miles on her odometer at 7,000 feet altitude in her 17th Year!

We stopped in Pecos,

Albuquerque

Roswell

and Sedona.

It’s a route I’d recommend and will take again so I’ve named it (PARS).

Here’s sunset on US285 between Roswell and Albuquerque

Here’s dawn on the 40 between ABQ and Sedona

And here’s the ongoing playlist of our adventure.

Love,

MTK