Wondering
Driving usually puts me in a daydreamy state of mind. I float around and wonder about what life is like in passing towns.
Driving usually puts me in a daydreamy state of mind. I float around and wonder about what life is like in passing towns.
It’s a VW Beetle … it’s using an engine designed for a Porsche and can go 20 years without serious maintenance …
It’s like the Maytag repairman from the commercials: it’s lonely. Just peek in, give it a pat, and look forward to the next 100k miles. 😀
This reminds me of when my friends and I drove my 88′ Acura integra up to Portland and beyond. There was a great heat wave that year, and although most of the check lights came on, and the windshield cracked from the heat, the car ran flawlesly!
Mine comes on if I hit a speed bump to fast. Mostly I just ignore it.
Looks like they’re headed down the Drain……Oregon.
Often on long trips, I find a classical music station, then just enjoy the passing scenery. It’s like mood music in the movies.
On long trips I often like to drive “enthusiastically.” As such I am fully focused on the driving, the cars ahead, behind and around, openings to slide into and out of (turn-signals are a time waster if there is enough open space), police on the side of the road, on-ramps, behind, ahead, and my general rates of rpm’s, speediness, fuel and the like.
I will, however, listen to NPR when able (slower driving usually results) and interesting thoughts and concepts will be jotted down on available napkins propped up on the steering wheel. I can do that without looking at what I’m writing, but afterwards do have to sometimes go back and pull apart notes that have been written or sketched on top of one another.
drain portland? with as much rain as they get up there, draining the columbia river copuld prove to be an impossible task…
I believe that it’s a town called “Drain”.
My CEL comes on when I have a loose gas cap. I have to tighten the cap and then drive 300 miles for the light to go out.