FREEDOM.The feeling of freedom is what driving has always meant to me and millions of others. The freedom to get in your car and just... DRIVE. I am sure I am not alone in remembering times of sadness where I just took off for an hour or two. Alone in my car. To regroup. To think. And to listin to a device that is now attack: AM stations…
FREEDOM.The feeling of freedom is what driving has always meant to me and millions of others. The freedom to get in your car and just... DRIVE. I am sure I am not alone in remembering times of sadness where I just took off for an hour or two. Alone in my car. To regroup. To think. And to listin to a device that is now attack: AM stations playing great music. Today freedom is not in vogue . The truth is that real freedom scares many of those under 25. Perhaps because they have never really felt it. Very sad. I cannot wait for my next road trip. As an older guy the main difference is that I need "health stops" much more frequently than in days gone by! Kids, get out there and "See the USA in your Chevrolet."
In Waterbury, Vt for the weekend and was joyously passed by a flock of bikers on their Harleys (and a few Kawasakis), and from what I could tell, no one riding was under sixty..
Once in a while I see a young daredevil on a motorcycle weaving through Interstate traffic, and I would think of myself on mine decades ago (and emerged happily unscathed..) - but by far the riders I see today are all looking for that elixir they know still exist within themselves.
Yep. I remember an exit to a highway in St. Louis that pointed the way to California....how many times I imagined just getting on the highway and just keep driving...on those depressed days. The fact that it was an option always made me feel liberated and BETTER.
One more thing. Even today as I start a long road trip I text close family my favorite road song to listen to as I sing it very LOUD : Willie Nelson's "On the road again."
FREEDOM.The feeling of freedom is what driving has always meant to me and millions of others. The freedom to get in your car and just... DRIVE. I am sure I am not alone in remembering times of sadness where I just took off for an hour or two. Alone in my car. To regroup. To think. And to listin to a device that is now attack: AM stations playing great music. Today freedom is not in vogue . The truth is that real freedom scares many of those under 25. Perhaps because they have never really felt it. Very sad. I cannot wait for my next road trip. As an older guy the main difference is that I need "health stops" much more frequently than in days gone by! Kids, get out there and "See the USA in your Chevrolet."
In Waterbury, Vt for the weekend and was joyously passed by a flock of bikers on their Harleys (and a few Kawasakis), and from what I could tell, no one riding was under sixty..
Once in a while I see a young daredevil on a motorcycle weaving through Interstate traffic, and I would think of myself on mine decades ago (and emerged happily unscathed..) - but by far the riders I see today are all looking for that elixir they know still exist within themselves.
Freedom, indeed.
Yep. I remember an exit to a highway in St. Louis that pointed the way to California....how many times I imagined just getting on the highway and just keep driving...on those depressed days. The fact that it was an option always made me feel liberated and BETTER.
Amen!
One more thing. Even today as I start a long road trip I text close family my favorite road song to listen to as I sing it very LOUD : Willie Nelson's "On the road again."