A true to life story from Dennis

September 2008

Here is a true to life story from Dennis:
After one week, I am getting a love – hate relationship, I love the speed bumps when I am a pedestrian and hate them when I am driving. As I mention driving, I recall the relaxing times of the “Loop of DC”; New York City; Chicago; the road repairs of Appleton; and North “47” on a Friday afternoon. None of my past has prepared me for today. If you are in front of a bus, you will be passed, it doesn’t matter if you are on a hill or curve, driving cautiously in the city streets or doing 100K in a 60K zone, you will be passed and you say good, now I don’t need to expect the worst. The problem is now the bus is in front of you and you can not see what is happening in front of the bus or for that matter behind the bes because of the black exhaust. I will try to explain it with my past of following a snow plow. The only thing you see is white; well this is opposite; the only thing you see is black. Eventually the gap will grow and you can see beyond your hand. Soon the bus driver will stop to get 4 more people, you pass and it starts again. This is one of the cautions ; the others you will experience are a Tuc-Tuc doing a u-turn; some livestock being hurded “on the side” of the road, bicycles, people, chickens, dogs, broken cars/trucks, and vendors times two, just because they are on the other side of the road, be assured they will change sides. Sometimes you get lucky and are caught in a traffic jam and things slow to a blur. Did I mention motorcycles riding on the center line or vehicles without lights?

Well enough of this, another interesting sight: the other day while driving, I was distracted by an erupting volcano; only a little one but it makes me ask; what next?

Dennis