she's here!

[marni]

a bit of background first:

for years I have yearned for a candy apple red jeep. It actually started out as a yearning for an apple candy red land rover, but devolved to a jeep as being a bit more attainable eventually. Years have gone by and I have become aware of how expensive they are to run (jeeps) and how basically how unstable the type of jeep I wanted was so it became a nice thought. Five years ago I decided that I had put in enough miles on my Trek Pilot (including three cross countries) to justify a new bike and that what would make perfect symmetry for my life would be to get a Trek Madone 6.5 WSD project one for my 65th birthday.

So I started saving under the bemused and somewhat skeptical overview of my family. About a year ago I had an encounter with a rock and rumble strip that did a lot of damage to the Pilot which set my savings back quite a bit, so much so that I didn't have quite enough saved up by the time my birthday hit in May, But then the SAG guy came through and told me the bike was mine and he would make up the difference as a birthday gift. So I ordered my dream, which also became an off beat fulfillment of my dream to own a candy apple red jeep. It isn't a jeep but it is candy apple red and gorgeous.

So today I picked up CA Red, my custom designed Trek Madone.