I don’t drive much, but last week I had decided that it would help me in my work to attend a lecture in Santa Clara. So I got a car share and drove. It was a little more than an hour each way.
Here are the notes I made to myself for next time (if there is one…)
- Don’t rely on a passenger who has never had a driver’s license to be a navigator. My “navigator” (a colleague and fellow cyclist) clearly wasn’t used to paying attention to freeway signs and we got lost.
- Time goes really fast with a conversation partner and the radio, so it’s only later when you realize that 2.5 hours of your life just vanished and all that happened was you got really tired.
- Pay attention to the speedometer. I was approaching the city and realized I was only going 50 mph on 101. Hey, it sure felt fast! My passenger said “yeah, you’ve been doing that most of the trip, it’s kind of cute”.
- The nice thing about having a passenger without a driver’s license is they don’t do any back-seat driving!
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