by stardog » Sat May 28, 2011 1:13 pm
My business is StarDogs Astronomy and I take an inflatable planetarium & telescope to schools, libraries, & camps in the midwest. This is our 16th year of sharing the universe with students, teachers, campers, and families.I started out with a Ford Ranger pickup and put 20,000 miles on it for the business in three years. Then, in 1998, I acquired a used 1995 Ford Windstar van with 14,000 miles on the odometer at time of purchase. Three-and-a-half years later, it was struck by a deer, and totaled. The odometer read 230,000+ miles, most all of them were driven for presenting the universe. I had to immediately purchase another van to make sure I had transportation to keep our schedule of programs. That was the summer of 2001, and I purchased a 1997 Mercury villager. At time of purchase, it had 64,132 miles on the odometer. I've enclosed a picture of the current odometer reading on the Mercury, and again, most all of this mileage is for business.
![StarDog Mileage.tiff (228.27 KiB) Viewed 3323 times Traveling the Universe.](./download/file.php?id=3047&t=1&sid=2bcea76436922eb72b6d80ae6ceca804)
- Traveling the Universe.
So in total for our business, between the pickup, and the two vans, that's 532,470 miles of sharing the night sky so far. It's been a lot of fun fetching the stars as the StarDog!
My business is StarDogs Astronomy and I take an inflatable planetarium & telescope to schools, libraries, & camps in the midwest. This is our 16th year of sharing the universe with students, teachers, campers, and families.I started out with a Ford Ranger pickup and put 20,000 miles on it for the business in three years. Then, in 1998, I acquired a used 1995 Ford Windstar van with 14,000 miles on the odometer at time of purchase. Three-and-a-half years later, it was struck by a deer, and totaled. The odometer read 230,000+ miles, most all of them were driven for presenting the universe. I had to immediately purchase another van to make sure I had transportation to keep our schedule of programs. That was the summer of 2001, and I purchased a 1997 Mercury villager. At time of purchase, it had 64,132 miles on the odometer. I've enclosed a picture of the current odometer reading on the Mercury, and again, most all of this mileage is for business.[attachment=0]StarDog Mileage.tiff[/attachment] So in total for our business, between the pickup, and the two vans, that's 532,470 miles of sharing the night sky so far. It's been a lot of fun fetching the stars as the StarDog!