Re: I saw the future today.

petertrei@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> On Mar 31, 3:49 pm, Jette <bossl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Nate Edel wrote:
>>> Jette <bossl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>> rkshul...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
>>>>> Perhaps I should have added "comfortably and safely". A thousand
mile trip
>>>>> implies quite a bit more time in the vehicle along with quite a bit
more
>>>>> stuff (we don't usually drive a thousand miles then turn around and
come
>>>>> back). I've done long trips in subcompacts and have no desire to do
so
>>>>> again.
>>> I've driven coast to coast in a cheap but fairly spacious compact
(Cavalier)
>>> and a tiny two-door (Fiero) and the Fiero was actually the more
comfortable
>>> of the two.
>>>> A thousand miles and I'd want to get a train - even a big car
wouldn't
>>>> be comfortable enough for that long a journey.  Heck, I wouldn't even
>>>> drive 500 miles to London if I could avoid it.
>>> 1000 miles is longer than I care to drive as well, unless the goal is
moving
>>> the car more than moving myself.  Given the lack of decent inter-city
trains
>>> in the parts of the US I've had to travel, anything under 4-5 hours is
>>> definitely driving distance, anything over 8 hours is definitely
flying
>>> distance.   What that translates to in miles can be a bit variable
depending
>>> on local traffic and speed limits.
>> I will admit that my "one day when I retire dream" is to drive across
>> the US with a big RV - but in that case the journey would be the
>> *point* - not the arrival (and the RV would negate the necessity for
>> hotels, motels, public bathrooms and dodgy diners)
> 
> I'll concede you public bathrooms, but...
> 
> Hotels, motels, and dodgy diners are part of the point of the Road
> Trip.
> Would you rather avoid meeting the locals altogether? Read William
> Least Heat Moon, or even Bill Bryson (who I dislike).
> 
> Back in 1976, my parents rented a 22' yacht of a Ford Crown
> Victoria LTD, added a CB radio, and the 5 of us drove from NY to
> California and back, taking in the sights, and staying at cheap (but
> not rock bottom) motels. Best trip of my life (I was 19).
> 

I'm a solitary person - quite content with my own company for long 
periods, occasionally gregarious, but only with people I want to be 
around.  I'm mildly phobic about crowds, especially strangers.


-- 
Jette Goldie
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