I knew that, as part of a multi-band radio station concert, she wouldn’t perform a long set but still I patiently waited for Let It Show tickets to drop, drop, drop in price to a more than reasonable $13 each on SeatGeek, and then surprised the girls with a semi-spontaneous 2-hour drive after school to see Grace VanderWaal in Wilkes-Barre, PA the night before I’d fly away to England, the night before I was set to drive 750+ miles during my English football binge week dream trip.
I could’ve stayed at home, double checked that I had everything in my backpack (including lip balm which I always forget — and did forget again), gotten a good night’s sleep.
But then we wouldn’t have seen Grace.
The drive, the miles, the time — it was all totally worth it, it was all so much more than this.
Grace VanderWaal has only a dozen or so tour dates on the docket in 2018, all of which are more than 2-hours and 230-roundtrip miles away, all of which are sold out and going for anywhere from $130-$400 on SeatGeek, and anyway, the closest date, in D.C. at the famed 9:30 Club (which I’d LOVE to take my girls to someday), happens while we are out of town, so…
Carpe diem and whatnot.
Let’s see Grace, if only for 22-minutes, right freaking now!
Being in the fuel efficient lady boss that is our cherry red Kia Niro makes decisions like this one, to drive 230-miles roundtrip to experience a 22-minute opening set of music by 13-year-old GraceVanderWaal, to surprise my two little FanderWaals, to spend once-in-a-lifetime time with my wonderful daughters, an extremely easy one.
Thanks in large part to the Kia Niro, our night together costs just $39 for 3 tickets, a few bucks for PA Turnpike tolls and less than $15 for a mere 5 gallons of gas to travel those 230 miles up to Wilkes-Barre and back home late at night on a school night.
*OWTK is a Kia Ambassador with a long term Niro loaner. All opinions expressed above are honest and unbiased, as always. The Niro is a fuel efficient lady boss and we love her.
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