Day 2: Test driving the Model X

I thought it was going to be just five minutes for a couple of pictures at the Houston-North Tesla store where we had been last last year, right? Wrong! Turned out the store opened some minutes after we arrived at the scene. Turned out the nice, wonderful Susan MacHenry was there and remembered us (I mean, how often to you get to meet a Tesla-obsessed geek from Portugal?). Turned out she proposed test driving the Model X. You don't have to say that twice to the Tesla-obsessed geek from Portugal!

Before I knew it, I was standing under the (in)famous falcon wings of the Model X (boy, are they huge!) and the Tesla-obsessed geek from Portugal was in for a joyride! O joy!

To find out more about what's it like to cruise a Model X (and have the tech lingo to go along), please visit here, and here. I'm just the Tesla-wife not the Tesla-geeky-expert.

What happens when I say "Stop!"

It takes one good dose of nerves of steel to be a Tesla-wife. Mid-way on a Saturday drive around the country and I say: "Stop! What lovely scenery". By "lovely" I, of course, imply the lush greenery of the valleys and hills that we watch from a vantage point on a winding road in a high slope. what follows is superbly illustrated below. Keep scrolling down.

 Wind turbines, a Tesla-wife and the Tesla.

Wind turbines, a Tesla-wife and the Tesla.

Wind turbines, a Tesla-wife, no Tesla and a tiny bit of scenery.

Wind turbines, a Tesla-wife, a fragment of the Tesla and some scenery. I sometimes forget that in the scenery versus geek battle, geek gets the upper hand... So much to look at and it's the wind turbines that catch his gaze (those and the Tesla).

The Force Awoke...

I was dying to set eyes on the latest installment of the Star Wars saga. Yes, I confess to the odd nerdy streak in me... (but if asked, I'll deny it with every fiber of my conscious self). Last saturday dawned as the day I'd get to see Han Solo playing Han Solo in his mature years (O, Indiana where art thou?). Like any anxious kid before Christmas, I had to wait until the sun was down to see what dawn was going to bring. Never mind the long wait, I finally saw the "Force Awakens". But, maybe better than the Millenium Falcon, it was the Tesla that drove me to the Force.

And this Force is mighty. Zillion horse-power and the power of electric and there I was wide-eyed and jaw-dropped before the movie screen. Credits where due, His Geekyness played the diligent chauffeur to My Nerdyness (I honestly fail to grasp why His Geeknyness does not appreciate Star Wars and falls asleep throughout the crucial minutes of the film as though this was some minor, wee thing of a film when this is movie History!) and now I'm left waiting for the next episode to see if Han Solo has the resurrecting powers of Luke Skywalker...

May the Tesla Force be with you...