roberth
02-09-2021, 12:30
The calm before the storm.
https://americandigest.org/of-a-fire-in-a-field/ (https://americandigest.org/of-a-fire-in-a-field/)
I was working the California backroads with the sailor in his Porsche and ?Slow? was not on the menu. We had come down out of a few days in the high Sierras around Mount Shasta and, hitting the flatlands, the Sailor decided to clean some carbon out of the Porsche?s engine by finding a long, long, long flat paved ranch road well beyond the range of the California Highway Patrol. There he proceeded to put the speedometer well above the century mark and just leave it there. In a fine-tuned Porsche this means that on the two-lane blacktop ?the lines in the road just look like dots.? It was a year ago. It was February 2020 and it was the last time the people and the nation were happy. Nobody knew it at the time. Nobody at all.
https://americandigest.org/of-a-fire-in-a-field/ (https://americandigest.org/of-a-fire-in-a-field/)
I was working the California backroads with the sailor in his Porsche and ?Slow? was not on the menu. We had come down out of a few days in the high Sierras around Mount Shasta and, hitting the flatlands, the Sailor decided to clean some carbon out of the Porsche?s engine by finding a long, long, long flat paved ranch road well beyond the range of the California Highway Patrol. There he proceeded to put the speedometer well above the century mark and just leave it there. In a fine-tuned Porsche this means that on the two-lane blacktop ?the lines in the road just look like dots.? It was a year ago. It was February 2020 and it was the last time the people and the nation were happy. Nobody knew it at the time. Nobody at all.