October 18, 2009

  • After driving for almost 250 miles, and roughly about 4-5 hours worth today (not continuous mind you), I can kinda see the appeal of being on the road a lot. There's a sense of freedom of just... driving.... with nothing much around you except for the road, cars, empty fields, with the occasional cities and towns that you drive past. It's almost relaxing... if it wasn't for the fact that you still have to worry about the other drivers. Some times you just do not know when the line of cars in front of you are going to break hard, which means that you have to worry about not rear ending somebody.

    I'd like to mention a few more of the bad though...
    - There was a pickup truck, with a huge chair in the back, WITH a guy actually right behind that chair holding on to it! That guy better be strapped on tight to the truck, cuz I would not want for him to fall off the back. I wished I took a picture of that.
    - Saw a guy on a cellphone who was mere feet away from colliding with the center divider. I was decently far (but close) enough from the car, on another lane. If he crashed into it, who knows if his car would have flipped on my lane.
    - Standard sighting of a car who almost side swapped a guy on his blind spot when he was merging.
    - Car ahead decides to break HARD because he needed to merge to the next lane for his exit.

    So while it can be fun to just drive, go on a road trip and whatnot, it's always the other drivers that will make things less fun.