Adam Miller and Family

Driving the Tesla to Alabama

October 03, 2023 by Adam in Lohring

Dad decided to take his Tesla to the boat races in Alabama. I just talked to him, four days since he set out, and he made it mostly intact. Four days of audiobooks is a lot of audiobooks and fortunately the Tesla mostly drove itself. Unfortunately some construction likely threw up some debris and caused some damage to the underpart of the car, though he fortunately found a place that would quickly replace screws and fix a panel that was falling off. Hopefully his boats race well and the drive back is less eventful.

More Hawaii Adventures

December 09, 2019 by Adam in Lohring

Hula dancers at the luau (stop looking at the coconuts)

Ana and her sister with the Samoan fire dancer

Ana swimming with the fish (and turtles)

Hawaii

December 02, 2019 by Adam in Lohring

Dad and Ana are in Hawaii and he just sent along some photos. The following captions are his alone.

Ana's sister and niece on the beach

Ana on the beach at sunset

The King with a few of his 30+ wives

A beautiful valley

Tesla Run

November 08, 2018 by Adam in Lohring

Dad and I drove up to the Tesla dealership in Portland to pick up his Model 3. It was a fun roadtrip, and dad entertained me with his usual chatty banter as we headed up I-5 in the morning fog. The Tesla dealership was tucked away in a quirky location down a steep hill and across railroad tracks, but the garage was clean and painted with bold white and red colors. Eventually we handed over the check, got our key, and headed out to the car.

It took a few trys to figure out how to pair the phone with the car and where to press the key against the side of the car (below the camera, of course). The interior was a minimalist's dream, with no dashboard controls and just a touchscreen monitor, a few buttons on the wheel, and turn signals as a nod to tradition. We eventually figured out how to open the glovebox, play music from his phone, and how to switch driving mode from Performance to Chill (dad opted to keep it at Performance).

Soon we were off to lunch, carefully driving through Portland construction until we had a pizza and chatted a little more before returning to the dealership to pick up my car and part ways.

Birthday Boy

March 06, 2018 by Adam in Lohring

Dad came over for dinner and we fed him his third chocolate cake of the day, followed by chatting about everything under the sun until he had to go. It was great.

Happy 75th Birthday!

March 05, 2018 by Adam in Lohring

Happy birthday, dad. Danica nicely sent along all these great pictures of you as a kid. I'm hoping I age as well as you and run around as much as you do when I'm your age.