JLNobody
 
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Reply Fri 9 Jul, 2004 11:43 pm
I'll bet Gilroy smells good. I'll read your answer tomorrow. I'm off to bed, an early rise tomorrow.
Goodnight.
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Fri 9 Jul, 2004 11:48 pm
Easy answer, I have a very diminished sense of smell. I leave that to others.
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Fri 9 Jul, 2004 11:53 pm
Driving around the city with stops or driving around California with stops, I understand both viscerally. But what about the rest a' you?
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the prince
 
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Reply Sat 10 Jul, 2004 12:03 am
For the past few months, I have just started to hate driving - traffic in this country is so bad, that a drive is more stressful than relaxing.

I prefer to call a cab, and then sit back while someone else does the driving
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Sat 10 Jul, 2004 12:06 am
So, yes, Gautam, what do you see from the cab window? Annoyances, I bet, and guess you're right. Any description to give us of lurching and stopping and sensate aggravation???
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George
 
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Reply Sat 10 Jul, 2004 07:29 am
I took the family to California a couple of years ago to see S.F. and meet an old college buddy of mine who lives in Dublin.

We stayed in Femont and made several interesting drives. The kids were amazed by the hills -- very few trees and yellow-brown grass (now you know why they call it the Golden State).

My favorite ride was across the Golden Gate Bridge, through Sausalito and up to the Muir Woods. As you get closer to the Muir Woods, the scenery starts looking more like what a New Englander is used to. Then you get to the switchbacks that take up into the hills. The road is just about cut into the side of the hill, so you're always on the edge of a cliff and making a turn. The Lovely Bride (not a big fan of heights) spent most of the drive studying her knees. But the scenery is gorgeous! The Muir Woods is magnificent with all those huge trees creating a cathedral-like atmosphere.
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JLNobody
 
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Reply Sat 10 Jul, 2004 02:14 pm
Oh, George, I thought "the Golden State" referred to the banks of Beverly Hills.
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pueo
 
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Reply Sun 11 Jul, 2004 03:06 pm
i used to live in santa rosa, the rest of my family at the time lived in the salinas/monterey area, that was a nice drive down 101 except when the traffic was bad.
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drom et reve
 
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Reply Sun 11 Jul, 2004 03:36 pm
This is a wonderful thread, Osso; I have loved reading the descriptions here.

This is the second time that this description has been lost, so I have had to trim it considerably (it took me about two hours to write the first version Sad; ) but here goes. I never learnt how to drive; because I never had a traditional teen or student job, I had not enough money to fork out for driving lessons. This means, though, that I usually get the train or get a lift from friends.. and the journeys are usually long.

Expectably, one of the journeys that comes to my mind was the one that I took last Saturday to Sunday, from the house of my ex-friend's father in Birmingham, all the way to San Sebastián, in the Spanish Basques. (From where I got another lift to Santillana del Mar.)

The people with whom I was driving first are people who should be divided, if not by a substantial sea then by continents. They argue about everything;-- at one point, they were even knocking on about dog biscuits, and it seemed like an argument. When one questions them about why they are arguing, they just say 'for the sake of it,' and then shrug it off.'

Yet, nothing could detract me from admiring the landscape, and the odd beauty of closed vineyards and shards of grass sprouting up on either side of the window in their poxy car. The day was hazily warm, and so our disagreeable drivers dropped off every thirty minutes into one aire
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devriesj
 
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Reply Sun 11 Jul, 2004 04:00 pm
Sounds absolutely fabulous, drom-! I love your writing. You make me wish I was travelling as well!
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Sun 11 Jul, 2004 04:05 pm
The sucking sound of a2kers being drawn into a driving story...

I am confused though. The couple with the poxy car, when did you lose them, or have you yet?
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JLNobody
 
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Reply Sun 11 Jul, 2004 04:31 pm
Yes, wonderful. Thanks.
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drom et reve
 
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Reply Sun 11 Jul, 2004 04:38 pm
Thanks, Dev! I only wish that I had had the Internet last week; then I could have written as things happened. You know that you, and nearly all of you on A2K, can come visit/ travel with me any time, with all sincerity. This is the only site on which I would think to offer such a thing.

Hey, Osso: I was left in San Sebastián on Sunday last by the couple, who absurdly were Holidaying together!! It was really lovely in San.S; the old town there, underneath the ashy Monte Urgull with its sea vistas, was fairly quiet, probably due to its being Sunday, but it was nonetheless buzzing. Anyway, they left me there; I got a lift from San Sebastien to Santillana by the owner of the camping/chalet site; then, due to weather, I stayed in and around Cantabria until Thursday. I went from Cantabria to Boulogne on that Thursday, stayed on my own in Boulogne from Friday until Saturday-- and then I travelled by train from Boulogne to Etaples, a lovely little fishing stop, full of Quais by the River... and then, tomorrow, I'm leaving to Paris-- probably. Someone from the far past is asking me to attend his wedding up in Prestatyn, somewhere in Wales, but I will probably turn the offer down, as I dislike weddings; well, I dislike wedding-parties.


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ossobuco
 
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Reply Fri 31 Jul, 2009 06:29 pm
Ah, damn, I loved that thread.
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Tue 27 Jun, 2017 07:59 pm
Boy, this is an oldie.
ossobucotemp
 
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Reply Tue 27 Jun, 2017 08:05 pm
@edgarblythe,
Oh, thank you so much. I'll at least try to save this.
Don't know the whys, but I couldn't find it after several tries.

edgarblythe
 
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Reply Tue 27 Jun, 2017 08:07 pm
@ossobucotemp,
I do a google search when I can't find a thread. In this case, I searched the name of the thread and able2know.org. Took me right there.
ossobucotemp
 
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Reply Tue 27 Jun, 2017 08:30 pm
@edgarblythe,
Thank you, that didn't occur to me.
Ok, pleased now.




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cameronleon
 
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Reply Sat 23 Sep, 2017 08:38 pm
I drove thru most of New Mexico some years ago. I rented a car with no miles limit and there we went visiting city after city.

Traveling thru the different routes one can see the long fence of the Indian reservations, miles and miles of fence, until finally you reach the entrance of the city, which looks like a town from a Western movie but without people around. Driving inside you are now in a tight route which takes you to their houses, but in the middle of the road it is a Toyota truck, old, big, parked in transverse with an Indian dressed as a farmer, who will indicate you with his hand that you must turn around and leave.

Yes, we went before the visit season starts. We should have waited two more weeks in California.

In other places, they can allow you to enter, and you can take pictures but not videos, because they think that spirits will get inside the film.

Hard to find real ceramic from the Indians, we traveled a lot looking for real antiques of this kind, but even the museums are full of "Indian art" made by "White"American and foreign artists.

What is beautiful, like driving in Colorado, is the view of the rock mountains, but we weren't use to the cold dry weather and with cracked lips I finally conceded to buy those petroleum jelly lip sticks.

The routes in New Mexico are easy to be followed, and no matter if hotels are not five stars, the environment is great and the people are nice... still be careful in cities like Albuquerque and others were crime has increased.

It was a great experience visiting New Mexico. We decided this trip right after traveling to California for a kind of business, and having lots of time to spend, going to New Mexico was a great adventure to our eyes.

Airplane from California to Santa Fe, renting a car in this city, and hundreds of miles driving here and there.

We weren't disappointed.



roger
 
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Reply Sat 23 Sep, 2017 08:57 pm
@cameronleon,
Really? I have driven hundreds of miles on reservations in New Mexico and Arizona and the only fences I've seen were livestock fences identical to those on any other ranches in the two states.
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