In these days of non-car ownership, I’ve been driving my wife’s car to work, a 2000 Mitsubishi 4-door Galant ES. Automatic, of course. It’s not a bad car & since it has well functioning air conditioning, I am not missing my former ‘Big White Whale‘. I’m still on the Miata hunt. Today I was able [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Almost 30 years ago, I spent a few years of my live living in both rural & then urban Mexico, including Mexico City. This was just after my carefree college years. At that time, when my then fiancée introduced me to Mexico City traffic, I was major paranoid & scared witless. She told me I [...]
It’s interesting to observe that the most commonsense things in life transfer over to improved performance in competition racing. The key concept here is concentration. Keeping distractions out of the equation is very helpful to attain your goal of clean, optimal laps, one after the other. But that is not as easy as described. [I've [...]
It’s gone…I did it…it has been sold! I made the commitment and sold my ‘Big White Whale‘ (2000 Nissan Maxima SE) to CarMax today! I went there last week on a whim & they offered me much more than I had it advertised for on craigslist. In the Interim week, I had driven 6 or [...]






