you were magnificent I gave away my fifth car today and it felt just as bad the first time I gave my Honda away. It just seems to wrong to part ways with cars you own. Each time I do it, I wish I hadn’t. How would Kelly’s blue book know what the true value[…]
This isn’t really about my first Alfa Romeo. If it was, I would have started with the significance of this brand and worked my way to the specifics of the Stelvio. But instead, this is about how I got here and how that is in some ways perhaps way more significant. My wife thinks I[…]
To the moon and back? That must have been some trip! There is much to be said about the romanticism of road trips. Especially when the lovely wife is an accomplice on the road! I have been fortunate enough to been many road trips and experience the ever present joy of driving into the unknown[…]
coagulate vs collage I am dusting the cobwebs off this blog. In August I was waxing eloquent about my car’s anniversary, on a relative high. Thereafter I have struggled to come to this blog with any kind of desire. I wish lethargy was the straightforward reason for my lack of writing. But between the hours[…]
There was a moment, when I almost decided not to go through with it. I left work early to get to the bank on time to get the certified check for her. And on cue, I reached the bank to find out that the teller I was working with that week was having a difficult[…]
The nicer the car the worse the misery is in Michigan. On my recent travels to West Virginia and New Hampshire, it was painfully evident how much curvier and graded the roads were. The plentiful potholes in Michigan were replaced with delightful nooks and crannies. Sadly, she stayed put at home in our garage and[…]
It is entirely possible that the sun will rise next morning. But you just can’t be sure. In the last few years, there has been an incredible numbing of the senses. The smells and the taste feel doctored and domesticated. Eclectic experiences float away readily, requiring me to intensely remember even just the basic details.[…]
There are two ways in which you can get to know your car really well. The first one requires two buckets of clean water, micro fiber cloths, pH neutral shampoo and gentle time to hand wash your car. It is only then that you become acutely aware of all her surface complexities. From afar, her[…]
It is just as great on the other side Still that sincere yearning of an average heart, beating well and true In this new found land, of paled red white and blue A desire that has now aged, a passion that now burns cheaper and slower Amber of forgotten loves, plain-Jane cars and average[…]