"two old geezers" Gosh I wish we could leave this behind. If you can do something you do it, regardless of age, race, religion, etc. How appalling age prejudice is so widely accepted, even encouraged by the media. Something's up with them.
As for being an "aging hippy", bravo! The hippies were, after all, right : )
Katherine, What a great read! You cannot know how much I resonate with your road trip. Road trips have been and continue to be part and parcel of my life and I have had a long standing love affair with long over the road trips. So much so that I started driving buses when in graduate school in the early 60's and drove for several bus companies mostly on the East Coast between Boston and Washington but also some side trips under contract with Greyhound and Trailways. I continued doing this part time when I could for 20 years and then moved into the RV world traveling thousands of miles in the U.S. Canada and Mexico for another 20 years and 8 different RV's Even spent the night in Lee, Mass a few years ago. Wondering now how I can encapsulate my "On the Road Again" experiences that would be of interest to anyone else. Diners, motels, truck stops and people along the way? Highways and Byways Avoiding Interstates? Did you ever read William Least Heat Moon's "Blue Highways"? Places I've been and almost forgotten...keeping a log helped remember..
Richard, media is a reflection or mirror of society, though sometimes a distorted mirror. Ageism is definitely present, though I'm not sure whether it's worse among the young or among us baby boomers who once distrusted anyone over 30. "How terribly strange to be 70," Paul Simon once wrote. He's now frickin' 82 years old and still performing, though his voice isn't what it used to be imho.
A long-haul trucker who is 74 and stretches in his truck? Hmm. I'm younger but would be intimidated by such a huge truck. I rented a U-Haul-It van 18 years ago and ran over a steel barrier at a gas station, profusely apologized to the gas station, gave my name, address and phone number. A year later their lawyer called and asked if I would like to pay $1,000 to replace it. I said um, no I wouldn't. I fortunately didn't hear from him again.
Speaking of intimidating, as I walked back to my car at the Lee rest area, a HUMONGOUS tour bus was parked at the door. Definitely wouldn’t want to be driving that.
Katharine, lucky you to go on a road trip, and to have civil conversations and perhaps even political conversions while on it. I knew John Bolton to be a militant neo-con egotist from way back, and part of his disappointment with Trump is unwillingness to support an aggressive U.S. foreign policy, plus "softness" on Russia and Putin, while abandoning Ukraine. A more credible neo-con anti-Trumper, imho, is Liz Cheney, who supports Biden because Trump will destroy the Constitution and won't ever leave office, she says.
"two old geezers" Gosh I wish we could leave this behind. If you can do something you do it, regardless of age, race, religion, etc. How appalling age prejudice is so widely accepted, even encouraged by the media. Something's up with them.
As for being an "aging hippy", bravo! The hippies were, after all, right : )
Katherine, What a great read! You cannot know how much I resonate with your road trip. Road trips have been and continue to be part and parcel of my life and I have had a long standing love affair with long over the road trips. So much so that I started driving buses when in graduate school in the early 60's and drove for several bus companies mostly on the East Coast between Boston and Washington but also some side trips under contract with Greyhound and Trailways. I continued doing this part time when I could for 20 years and then moved into the RV world traveling thousands of miles in the U.S. Canada and Mexico for another 20 years and 8 different RV's Even spent the night in Lee, Mass a few years ago. Wondering now how I can encapsulate my "On the Road Again" experiences that would be of interest to anyone else. Diners, motels, truck stops and people along the way? Highways and Byways Avoiding Interstates? Did you ever read William Least Heat Moon's "Blue Highways"? Places I've been and almost forgotten...keeping a log helped remember..
Sounds as though we’re kindred spirits. Probably crossed paths somewhere in our travels. Thank you for your kind words.
Richard, media is a reflection or mirror of society, though sometimes a distorted mirror. Ageism is definitely present, though I'm not sure whether it's worse among the young or among us baby boomers who once distrusted anyone over 30. "How terribly strange to be 70," Paul Simon once wrote. He's now frickin' 82 years old and still performing, though his voice isn't what it used to be imho.
A long-haul trucker who is 74 and stretches in his truck? Hmm. I'm younger but would be intimidated by such a huge truck. I rented a U-Haul-It van 18 years ago and ran over a steel barrier at a gas station, profusely apologized to the gas station, gave my name, address and phone number. A year later their lawyer called and asked if I would like to pay $1,000 to replace it. I said um, no I wouldn't. I fortunately didn't hear from him again.
Speaking of intimidating, as I walked back to my car at the Lee rest area, a HUMONGOUS tour bus was parked at the door. Definitely wouldn’t want to be driving that.
Katharine, lucky you to go on a road trip, and to have civil conversations and perhaps even political conversions while on it. I knew John Bolton to be a militant neo-con egotist from way back, and part of his disappointment with Trump is unwillingness to support an aggressive U.S. foreign policy, plus "softness" on Russia and Putin, while abandoning Ukraine. A more credible neo-con anti-Trumper, imho, is Liz Cheney, who supports Biden because Trump will destroy the Constitution and won't ever leave office, she says.
Thank you, Jim. As you know I got the Bolton book for $2.99 at Goodwill so have no regrets about not reading the rest!