Kaya Overholtzer recently purchased her very first car after putting aside her life's allowance, and working for over a year after school as a "car-hop", at Tropical Treats, serving burgers, fries and ice cream to a dedicated crowd of "eat-in-your-car" enthusiasts. With the help of her parents, Kaya just brought home a 1998 Pontiac Firebird, the car of her dreams with 206,000 miles on it, and thankfully for her father, a fine mechanic who also provided that long-haul vehicle trailer.
Only now, because of her age at fifteen, she is yet, unable to drive. Come late October, she'll have her Learner's Permit, and by June, she will be on that road, on her own. But, Kaya already knows how to drive - she learned on go-carts and for years, helped her dad move vehicles around the yard while he attended to his "garage" customers.
Today, I must say that I'm very proud to now have a granddaughter who will soon be old enough to drive - and hopefully with my next visit, she will give me a spin in her new deep-blue Firebird - when all three of us can roll throughout those rural hills of western Pennsylvania. And, Kaya has already given her a name - Indigo - "Indy" for short.
(photo; courtesy of her mom)
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