Home from Los Angeles with Ford

Left Tuesday, I was at the auto show with Ford again (two years ago they’d invited my blog [video], this year was with the newspaper)

We stayed in Santa Monica.

The * was me.

The famous Santa Monica pier was about 300 metres away.

I never made it though; I took these photos from Dan.

It was a fast trip – travel Tuesday, spend Wednesday inside here…

… then dinner and fly out the next morning.

Watched “Now you See Me” on the plane (so good), then wrote my column (talking to X-Copper about speeding tickets, to balance out this week’s talking with the toughest enforcer on the force).

Landed around 8; dinner catch up and laughs; then home, unpack, and power my apartment back up; jacknife on the phone with a BFF while she regaled me with her adventures; and now this is me.

Thursday night, best night of the week.

I’ll cheers you after I hit publish, then upload my column, then tomorrow I’ll blog the auto show.

xo TTYT

 

 

Driving Elation

Filmed in Napa CA, while testing the new VW 1.8L Turbo.

Ridiculous changes in elevation, not one straight line,
through beautiful terrain, on a clear blue sky day…
alone on total video game roads.

Manual all day long, too.

One of my best driving experiences to date.

Here’s the post about that trip. And another video, and about the car.

 

Went to California for 48 Hours

Aaand home.

That was maybe my best driving experience yet.

Ridiculous changes in elevation, not one straight line,
through beautiful terrain, on a clear blue sky day…
total video game roads.

Manual all day long, too.

Made a video.

And I was testing a Jetta! What I own! (here it is)

Short review – loved it.

(it’s tough to beat VW and Audi, I think. I love minimal though, remember (as I type this on my white desk, in my white living room, with nothing on the walls)).

NO SCREEN YESSSS

OH NO.

As I was cropping this photo, I see I forgot to remove the un-sightly key-fob, before taking the photos for the paper ughhhhh sound, hangs head.

Specifically, I was in Napa Vally.

The grapes really do look like the ones in those paintings,
in cheap Italian restaurants.

These trips sound glamorous, but it’s bit tough to be honest. NOT complaining, I love it, but it’s an intense, fast-paced, all-consuming 48hrs, with a 3hr time change, my stomach is weird, and it’s hard on your skin, and cel phone bill.

I just need to keep refining my system, is all. I keep coming back to: if I trained myself to sleep in shifts, could I do more that way…

Over the ‘ole Golden Gate.

Unpacked; laundry in; next week’s column done, talking about the badges on cars.

Now my jogging-pants-greasy-plane self is off for a beer, and to catch up on the internet.

Here’s to a good start to your last weekend of summer!