11-13-2019, 02:34 AM
Wing drivers are, in my observation, like the honey badgers of the motorcycle world. When it rains, I drive, I don't ride. We get such little rain that the roads are very slick when they're wet, and California drivers are idiots enough in the dry. I'll sit in traffic, and watch Wings sail by. When I hit spots in traffic that are too tight in my judgement to split lanes, I'll move over and let a Wing plow the way, clearing the cars by a few inches. Watched one of them reach out and fold in someone's side view mirror not too long ago.
Getting back to the California comments. My wife is giving nearly constant care to her parents in their 80s, my mom is up there too, and both of their old houses need my constant upkeep. At some point, it's just going to be her and me, and we'll be thinking hard about what we want to do. We just got back from a lovely trip through Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. Driving home, hitting gridlock traffic on a Saturday evening on the eastern outskirts of the L.A. basin, we started thinking hard...
Getting back to the California comments. My wife is giving nearly constant care to her parents in their 80s, my mom is up there too, and both of their old houses need my constant upkeep. At some point, it's just going to be her and me, and we'll be thinking hard about what we want to do. We just got back from a lovely trip through Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. Driving home, hitting gridlock traffic on a Saturday evening on the eastern outskirts of the L.A. basin, we started thinking hard...