Epic Mileage
Posted: Thu 9 February, 2012 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Commuting, Domestic, Driving, Travel, Work-related | Tags: 100000, 160000, mileage, mondeo |1 Comment »Nuts, I thought I’d posted on here when my car’s mileage went over the 100,000 mark. However, I can’t see it. It’s somewhere around April/May 2009 though, from the look of it.
Anyway, today, with my daft mileage kicking up all the time, my car’s clicked over the 160,000 mile mark.
Looking back, I got it in March 2007 when it had a mileage of 56,000.
So in just under five years, I’ve added 100,000 miles to it. Which isn’t a bad average, considering the stupid mileage I’m doing at the moment. I’m quite surprised, actually, that the average is that low. There must’ve been some times where I did a lot less than 20,000 miles a year – although off-hand I can’t quite think when that would’ve been.
Ah well.
My perception of the need/right of people to travel long distances to work has vastly altered over the years.
To justify a car journey of a length over about 100 miles now, I’d want to stay at least a weekend… whereas once I thought a 230 mile round trip every day was fine.