To the editor: I’m 90 years outdated and have been a licensed driver in California for 77 years, beginning with a junior operator license once I turned 13. I’ve by no means had a significant accident, only some fender benders. I taught driving for the California Nationwide Guard and AARP. My spouse and I’ve been in love and married for greater than 50 years (“If a 7-hour street journey up the 5 doesn’t spoil your marriage, nothing will,” July 1).
Our driving guidelines: No pointless dialog with the driving force. No distractions from driving. Spouse acts as co-pilot — heads-ups are welcome, as are private wants requests. Routes are agreed upon earlier than the journey begins. Relaxation and meals stops are taken because the journey progresses. Management of the radio is shared. HVAC has separate controls for driver and passenger. Driver doesn’t use telephone. We usually don’t carry passengers and thus, no conversations within the automobile.
My spouse is not going to experience with different drivers and we’ve an settlement on my driving: When she believes I ought to now not drive, she is going to inform me and I cannot argue together with her. Drive safely!
Ernest Salomon, Santa Barbara
..
To the editor: Rising up the kid of public faculty lecturers, I skilled street journeys all through my youth — fuel was low cost and tenting spots have been plentiful. Clearly, we had no digital distractions and the locations we went to have been all distinctive and consultant of people that lived totally different lives than we did within the suburbs. Plus, there have been no ubiquitous chain shops that regarded the identical in every single place we went.
I might add one ebook to visitor contributor Derek Mong’s syllabus on the street journey in America (“The street journey — chic, profane and [almost] reclaimed,” July 3). That’s William Least Warmth-Moon’s “Blue Highways,” a wealthy story of America within the Eighties and an exploration of the range of endemic cultures in our nation.
Peggy Perry, Claremont
