(taken at a desk at BHG – they manage fleets of press cars)

In the fall of 2011, when I was getting press car after car, I decided it was full blog steam ahead, in one direction – I chose cars.

When I returned in May, from living in the States, I was right back to driving a different car every week. I took the June photo above, then tucked it away under, ‘future collage’; waiting for when I felt I could back it up.

As of Today:

– auto team member of one of our largest newspapers
– 3 months of my weekly opinion column, ‘Keri on Driving’
– news articles every week
– first proper, detailed car review done
– hit my goal of  testing $1 million worth of cars ($1,096,300) by end-of-year
– might hold the nation’s record for ‘longest duration with the same press car’ (4 weeks)
– probably produced, single-handlely, more content for Honda Canada than anyone else, this year
– 1 AJAC ‘Test Fest’
– 5 mini-track days
– 1 huge track day, that turned out to be an airport, COMEon

BOOM.

And that’s that. Now I am an official Auto Journalist.

I removed “New” from my bios, the occasion has been documented with this post, now, on to the next.

Titles mean: work harder

Drive more cars, get faster at writing news pieces; have better consistency;  maybe take an engine class; I found my opinion voice, now find my review voice.  Then guys, I think where I can really bring it all together, is: car adventure videos.  That’s what I’m daydreaming of, these past pensive weeks.

Thanks for cheering me on over the years, please keep doing that.