Home Again

Well, I'm home again. I went to Las Vegas over the past weekend for a business conference, then I spent a couple of days around the Bridgeport, CA area. It was an excellent trip, and it was good to be away from my normal routine for a while. I spent some time exploring around the Mono Lake Basin, too. That is an amazing place. I wanted to go into Bodie, but the roads are closed, presumably due to the excessive snow this year. My blue 280z did quite well, and I had some fun driving through the deserts of Nevada and the mountains of California. There are a couple of aspects of the driving that I will comment on in more detail.

The first aspect of the drive that I want to comment on is sort of a rant. I've commented before in this space about truckers on the highways. I have nothing against them as people, but I do have something against their practice of passing each other and holding up traffic. In my experience, it is not rare for one truck to pass another truck when their speed difference is very small. This results in a significant slowdown for traffic while one of these lumbering beasts creeps past the other. That would not be too bad if the truck drivers waited for openings in traffic to pass each other, but quite often the driver of the passing truck apparently has no regard for the traffic, and he pulls out whenever he feels like it - regardless of how much space he has. Why do they do this? There was one truck driver that I appreciated, however. He sticks out in my mind because when he passed another truck, he had some excellent momentum and he did not slow down the other traffic. This is a rarity, and I appreciated it. Anyway, enough about this. In then end, it really doesn't matter - it's just a minor annoyance.

The second aspect of that I want to discuss is what happened to me. Before I left home I asked the Lord to remind me that speed is not the most important thing on the road, and I asked Him to help me be calm on the road. He answered yes to both requests. I was often not able to drive as fast as I wanted to, and I was ok with it - I was calm and patient. I was pleasantly surprised, as I have tended to be an impatient guy on the highways. But I was cool this time. Thank you, Lord.

Well, I guess that's all for now.

Keep on truckin'.
bIsh