1) The first car I ever owned I killed on a snowy night driving back from the Manchester, NH airport by driving it at 75 mph in 4th gear. I hadn’t driven it in months, and I had forgotten there was a fifth gear. My brother, who had come to pick me up, started walking […]
Category Archives: Driving
Circling Vergennes
It’s about a five and a half hour drive home from New York City, and by the last hour of that drive, you really want it to be over. This is why it is so cruel for those signs for Vergennes to be messing with you so much. Vergennes is a city about half an […]
Things You Never Want to See
There are some things in life that you just never want to see. For instance, you don’t want to see a giant truck driving the wrong way down the highway right at you. Luckily, after my heart resumed beating, I realized that it was just being towed and was not, in fact, about to plow […]
My Kids’ First Car Accident
The day hadn’t really started off well anyway. I’d woken up with a tweaked back, barely able to stand, so I had scheduled an emergency chiropractor visit and taken Edward to church with me so that I could work on music sorting and planning, and he could spread toys all over the choir room. It […]
My Night in Jail
A few years ago I was finishing a long drive north when I was pulled over for speeding in the state of New York. I was given a ticket, and then continued on my trip. As I recall, I was on my way home for a visit since we had not moved to Vermont yet. […]
How to Keep Yourself From Texting While Driving
I know it’s hard. Those red lights are so long, and you really need to tell that person something. And isn’t that why you got a smartphone anyway? So you could communicate on the go? And don’t you want to see if anyone liked your status update? And you’re not really doing anything, right? You’re just […]
The Speedometer or the GPS?
While driving back and forth to the Yellow Barn Music Festival rehearsals last week, I noticed something strange about my speed. Since it was an almost 3 hour trip, 95% of which was on the highway, I had set the cruise control to somewhere just over the speed limit and was not really thinking about […]
Driverless Cars
As I was flipping through the DVR this morning looking for episodes of “The Doodlebops,” the news was playing in the upper right hand corner of the screen, and it was telling me about driverless cars. According to the news, they are working on vehicles that need minimal human input in a variety of situations. […]
The Standard Force
We finally got a new car. Well, not a new new car, but we did sell the old broken one and picked up a less old, less broken one. The new car is a little different from the ex-vehicle. For one thing it has all of its mirrors intact. Also, the seat belts work and […]
Please Pull Over So I Can Explain
Okay, so I was driving home last night and I pulled onto the interstate a few exits north of my house. I got on in a small section in which the speed limit is 55 mph, though almost all of the interstate highways in Vermont have 65 mph limits. Wanting to go fast, but also […]