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I was sitting at a traffic light on my way to the market this morning and happened to observe the vehicles around me. I'm sorry to say that I think there are a whole lot of ugly cars out there these days. I don't like the square, boxy look, and remember fondly the curves of the 50's.
My dad drove a car with a manual transmission until 1956, when he bought a car with automatic as I was turning 16 in November and would be learning to drive. Our dads or someone else taught us to drive in those days as the schools didn't have driver's ed. My dad was a supreme teacher. He could often get excited and yell, but when in the car with me at the wheel he was perfectly composed - at least outwardly. There were times we got in traffic in a place I wasn't familiar with and begged him to take over, but he calmly made me go on, and never raising his voice, talked me through it. I miss him so much!
But I got off track. The cars back then had beautiful curves and looked so sleek and aerodynamic, not like all the boxy angles that were around me in traffic this morning. My dad, in his wisdom, wouldn't take me to the DMV on my birthday, which was the dream of every 16 year old. He told me I wasn't ready and needed more practice, so I practiced every chance I got until March of the following year.
The vehicles around me this morning may have been ugly as sin, but they provided me with a beautiful trip down memory lane!
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Cars
I was sitting at a traffic light on my way to the market this morning and happened to observe the vehicles around me. I'm sorry to say that I think there are a whole lot of ugly cars out there these days. I don't like the square, boxy look, and remember fondly the curves of the 50's.
My dad drove a car with a manual transmission until 1956, when he bought a car with automatic as I was turning 16 in November and would be learning to drive. Our dads or someone else taught us to drive in those days as the schools didn't have driver's ed. My dad was a supreme teacher. He could often get excited and yell, but when in the car with me at the wheel he was perfectly composed - at least outwardly. There were times we got in traffic in a place I wasn't familiar with and begged him to take over, but he calmly made me go on, and never raising his voice, talked me through it. I miss him so much!
But I got off track. The cars back then had beautiful curves and looked so sleek and aerodynamic, not like all the boxy angles that were around me in traffic this morning. My dad, in his wisdom, wouldn't take me to the DMV on my birthday, which was the dream of every 16 year old. He told me I wasn't ready and needed more practice, so I practiced every chance I got until March of the following year.
The vehicles around me this morning may have been ugly as sin, but they provided me with a beautiful trip down memory lane!
- I Made It!
I left Indio at about 8:30 thinking it would take me 3 hrs to get to Costa Mesa. That's about what it took, and the trip was uneventful. I followed the Garmin directions up to the last couple of turns, but missed one and ended up where I wanted...
- Alive!
A few times today I wasn't sure I'd make it. First of all, until I reached Youngstown, Ohio (eastern side of the state) there was fog and light precipitation all day. The foggy haze wasn't bad enough so that you couldn't...
- A Break In The Action
It looks like we might have a short break in all the rain today. Yesterday was the worst! Traffic was slowed almost to a standstill during the evening commute hours due to flooded freeways. I-80, which probably has 5 or 6 lanes...
- No Place Like Home
Be it ever so humble there's no place like home! I arrived at my day's destination in Carson City, NV at 1:00 pm and didn't want a repeat of yesterday when I had way too much time to kill because of early arrival. Also I'm tired...
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