Finally! Some Driving Weather!

[DUCeditor]

Fiat Spiders were designed for days like today. Mostly sunny, warm (but not stick-to-the-seat hot).

Fiat Spiders were designed for roads like I drove today. Curving roads that wend their way through small, friendly towns.

Fiat Spiders were designed to be shared with friends who love driving fun cars. Friends like my wife Jan and my buddy Ray.

On a day like today, on roads like today's with friends like these to share them with LIFE IS SO GOOD!














-don

[baltobernie]

Great, great, and great! Glad you had a wonderful time, and hope there's many more to come.

Are you guys going to Freakout this year?

[DUCeditor]

Are you guys going to Freakout this year?

No. We went only once, in 1996, when it was held in the "Birthplace of Fiat in America" -- Poughkeepsie, N.Y. The southern locations generally chosen are alas, just to many boring highway miles away.

And frankly I'm just not a highway driver. Hate 'em on my bikes, hate 'em almost as much in the Spider. They're fine I suppose for family sedans and vans with 500 watt stereo systems and flat screen TVs for the kids. Or for those who simply don't mind being anesthetized for a time. But that ain't me! Never was. Never will be.

-don

[markpink]

Hey Don,

Good for you.

I just finished my suspension work on my car 5 minutes ago and I jumped in to go test it out. Not having the car working this weekend has been killing me.

So I jump in and the battery is dead.

Ok. There's always tomorrow...

Mark

[kmead]

Congrats on your fine day. (given what my family is posting of what is going on in central Vermont, you are doing well)

You have no idea how much I miss that area. There are so few roads hereabouts that are anything like the roads near you and the ones I grew up learning to drive on in central Vermont. You are a lucky man, perhaps someday I can end up back there.

Your Spider looks great and that red thing doesn't look too bad either.

[DUCeditor]

You have no idea how much I miss that area. There are so few roads hereabouts that are anything like the roads near you and the ones I grew up learning to drive on in central Vermont. You are a lucky man, perhaps someday I can end up back there.

Your Spider looks great and that red thing doesn't look too bad either.

Thanks Karl.

We landed here, not by chance, but by design kissed by a little luck.

I always knew we'd retire to New Hampshire. Both for its roads and for the "Yankee freedom" that I by nature cherish.

When the opportunity to purchase our present property opened up we grabbed for it and never looked back. That has meant for me a long daily commute but it has been worth it. The very roads I'd travel for a couple of hours to reach on Sunday mornings now start at the end of my driveway. And with retirement getting closer each year...

New England is indeed a wonderful place. Some years back when I was writing regularly for Ducati.com I responded to people's wonderment that I'd choose to live where the winters are so long with this article: http://www.duc.bz/BRM_AutumnSong.htm

Hope you make it back here!

-don

[DUCeditor]

I just finished my suspension work on my car 5 minutes ago and I jumped in to go test it out. Not having the car working this weekend has been killing me.

So I jump in and the battery is dead.

Ok. There's always tomorrow...

Hope you have a charger Mark! Today is going to be a lovely one too!

-don

[baltobernie]

"The road is mine, the town is theirs". Very well said.

[kmead]

Well said. That was always my way through those towns and village as well. I miss going from Fitzwilliam to Richmond and up to the airport the back way. I am sure they have straightened many of the roads and the sheriffs are more prevalent now. I really miss going over the various "gaps" in Vermont, hairpin to hairpin often along outcroppings and huge rocks dropped by the glaciers long ago. I even miss all the dirt roads where I learned all manner of car control techniques by way of washboard, roads I had no knowledge of and so on.