Friday I watched the odometer on my 1999 Honda Accord click over to 100,000 miles. I was on Jackson Road in Ann Arbor, between Meijer and Arbor Farms, on my way to buy a loaf of Zingerman’s Jewish Rye. Seems like most of those miles were trips like that. I tried to remember some of those miles – at least the long trips when I put a lot of miles on – and I couldn’t come up with many. Here’s a quick list (in no particular order):
Ann Arbor to Boston: 1,500 miles round trip
Ann Arbor to Philly: 1,200 miles round trip
Ann Arbor to St. Louis: 1,000 miles round trip
Ann Arbor to Hershey, PA: 1,000 miles round trip
Ann Arbor to Paradise (it’s not): 700 miles round trip
Ann Arbor to Petoskey (twice): 500 miles round trip
Ann Arbor to Hocking Hills State Park in Ohio: 500 miles round trip
Ann Arbor to Leo, IN: 300 miles round trip
And then there’s all those 300 mile round trips to Daniel’s. Approximately twice a month for the last three and a half years. That adds up to over 25,000 miles (I got the calculator out for that one).
That leaves approximately 67,000 miles done in 10 mile round trip increments to work, the grocery store, yoga, disc golf, and, to Zingerman’s for a loaf of Detroit Street (my favorite) or Jewish Rye (Daniel’s favorite).