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this a missing car it's all the why wait wait wait we'll get here but the story started long before this in life and generally don't get the opportunity to be surrounded by what you love when you do those stories generally don't start by traveling 17 hours to the other side of the globe but if there was a reason to travel this far this we're invited out to Finland for the ultimate Tesla experience it was 72 hours of Awesomeness driving out to visit reindeers driving on snow sliding around ice and it ended perfectly with a brand new car Matt and I hopped in a Model S and we drove to a legit reindeer farm I had I think maybe I'd seen reindeer before at the long time ago or like a Santa's Village kind of thing but actually like see reindeer in Finland was really cool it also let us kind of see the Finnish countryside it's my first time ever in Scandinavia and it could not have been at a more picturesque time you know there was snow everywhere the skies were blue it was just gorgeous to drive and see snow everywhere to see houses and huts that look different that we see in the United States it's always interesting to experience a new culture but it was really an experience that I won't forget being able to see things I've never seen to talk to people I never spoken to before and it was really neat to get to see them I have experience driving on snow and ice before I spent four years in upstate New York and those winners were brutal that was a really long time ago these ice tracks and chemi Finland were unlike anything else I've ever seen in fact it's the only track area in the world you can actually drive on frozen seawater like if you look at the GPS the little red triangle literally in the middle of the ocean and it was incredible so as comfortable as like I felt driving the model three at the end of the day they let the instructors go behind the wheel and we got to kind of be along for the ride and they put on track mode and I have never experienced drifting before initially I especially never experienced drifting on ice the instructor is actually taking turns it seemed like we were going backwards around sort of drift around these really sharp turns it was awesome it was really cool to experience actually be in the passenger seat with a professional driver I have never experienced anything like that it felt like a roller coaster feel like an amusement park ride it was incredible my legs were and I want to see a little wobbly at the end you know but going around and getting experience to do that and then to actually watch other instructors do it kind of from not in the car was made an already awesome experience just like an extra level of like awesome after the incredible Finland experience Matt and I flew home it was 17 hours to get back barely had enough time to hug my kids hug my wife take a quick shower and hop in an uber to go up to Hawthorne to see Tesla's grand reveal of the model why is a perfect end cap on an already awesome experience this was my first my first time ever at Tesla event I've watched every life even they've ever done so it was kind of cool to be there I was I was honestly fanboying out a little bit when like Elon Musk came out on stage you get the whole history of Tesla it was just a neat thing to be and certainly like a bucket list item for like this teching car guy and and Tesla fan that I can serve happily check off I was really excited to see the model why I drove in Model S I drove a Model X now and I've been kind of looking at the Model 3 but I got two kids and a third one on the way is so a kind of a crossover version of the three really kind of got me excited and then we saw the model Y and it was exactly kind of expecting it was a taller hatchback version of the model three we had a chance to actually drive in the model y as well it's a crazy experience in a car that just has glass going all the way back there's an a sort of like cross feeding that's breaking that up it is one gigantic piece it looks really cool to see and experience the car drove like a model three which is kind of to be expected we did get a chance to see the optional third row which looks small and cramped and probably only good for you know tinier humans and for short distances I liked it it's a hatchback I drove a Model S really liked that hatchback option it's kind of pointed to three which is standard trunks so really if looking for a model three that's slightly more space the model wise probably gonna be your jam this whole 72 hours in Finland and ending with the reveal of the model y like a dream I couldn't reply to the email asking us if we wanted to attend fast enough I'm a Tesla fan I'm a fan of electric mobility a fan of technology in the cars and get a chance to experience them in such a rare way in such a cool place but something that I am never gonna forget in my entire life and made me feel kind of honored and privileged and lucky and humbled all at once to have the opportunity to do this for a living to get to go to a place I've always wanted to go to drive a car that I feel generally passionate about and to end with an event that I've always wanted to go to it kind of just just caps you know four ish days of an incredible experience and one that's gonna be with me I think for a really long time you