Topic 36 of 39: Road Trip
Thu, May 23, 2002 (06:57) |
Sam Blob (AlFor)
Imagine the best road trip ever (or relate it if you've already done it). Where would you go? What would your vehicle be? What music would you carry?
I thought of this when I remembered seeing an old dead Ford Country Squire on the side of a road and imagining what it would have been like to drive a big wagon like that to the beach with a sailing dinghy on the roof rack (Jamaica doesn't have surf) and Beach Boys music in the tape deck (maybe add a CD player...)
(Terry, how would one link this topic to the Motorcycles and Music conferences?)
4 responses total.
Topic 36 of 39 [cars]: Road Trip
Response 1 of 4: Sam Blob (AlFor) * Thu, May 23, 2002 (07:16) * 7 lines
The only road trip I have ever done myself was to ride around Jamaica. I was on my bike and I carried no recorded music. I did carry my recorder (wind instrument, traditionally a woodwind but mine is plastic...) and I think I may have played it once on the trip.
A long time ago, I used to go with my uncle to his farm on Sundays. He would play an 8-track (did I mention this was a LONG time ago?) with "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)", "My Life", "Funkytown", "I Can't Stand The Rain", and other songs from that time. I think his son gave him that tape; can't imagine him buying it himself...
Another uncle took my mother (his sister) and those of her children still living at home on trips in his Nissan Patrol SUV. The only "music" I can remember from those trips was when my uncle tried to sing. The fact that the sounds he formed could only be called melodious if one removed the "mel" from the word did not seem to deter him. The singing was more hilarious than annoying, though, and the trips were great despite the singing. Far better than church, where the singing is louder and worse and where you can cut the hypocricy with a knife and where I end up wishing I could likewise cut the hypocrites. But I digress...
Jamaica is not really big enough for a classic road trip; one can drive from one end of the country to the other in about seven or eight hours. It does beat Barbados, however; one can easily drive completely around Barbados in a morning. Real road trips, I guess, are in sountries like the U.S., Canada, Brazil, and other huge places like that.
Topic 36 of 39 [cars]: Road Trip
Response 2 of 4: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, May 23, 2002 (07:36) * 1 lines
I went 15,000 miles in a converted schoolbus around the US back in my hippie days. Started in Minneapolis, went to KC, New Mexico, all over California, Oregon, Washington, on the Tennessee for a few years of Farming and then on to Wyoming and back to Calif and Oregon.
Topic 36 of 39 [cars]: Road Trip
Response 3 of 4: Sam Blob (AlFor) * Thu, May 23, 2002 (13:05) * 3 lines
"...on the Tennessee for a few years of Farming..."
That's not a road trip, that's an Odyssey! Did you still have the bus when you left Tennessee?
Topic 36 of 39 [cars]: Road Trip
Response 4 of 4: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, May 23, 2002 (14:07) * 1 lines
Yep. We lived in a farmhouse but we kept the bus handy for the next leg or oru Caravan.
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