The Legacy of Our Buick LeSabre

If you know me at all, you know that I'm an incredibly sentimental person. And tonight, I'm feeling extra nostalgic about one of my best childhood friends: our 1995 Buick LeSabre. We bought that car when I was eight years old or so, and I can't begin to count the memories we made and the adventures we took in that vehicle.

I have so many traveling photos taken from the windows of that car.

We spent years searching for property in Idaho and our Buick faithfully got us where we needed to go.

Our Buick watched me grow up. Here's a photo of me and my childhood best friend, building some kind of snow tunnel with the Buick in the background.

The Buick survived crazy amounts of snow.

Floods.

Countless concrete jobs.

Hitting a deer.

Prom photo shoots.

And me learning to drive.

It made an awesome prop for trunk-or-treat during the Halloween season.

I don't think I fully appreciated the Buick until I moved away from it. And now, due to an unfortunate accident with a bulldozer, it's been put into retirement. My amazing father has since bought a 'new' one (used, but still awesome), and after days of tireless searching, he managed to find me one as well. I bought it tonight.

This used car of mine is worn and well-loved, but I still adore it, and I'm excited to see what adventures we'll have together. As I got in my new car tonight, I was fighting back tears at all of the happy memories that I relived by simply sitting there. Even though I'd never seen the car before, and the colors were different than our beloved red Buick, everything about it was familiar. And as much as I love a new experience, there's nothing like the feeling of coming home to the familiar.

We are definitely a Buick-loving family.

Bonnie Gwyn