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Going to Florida in an Election Season
We left for Florida Monday, a week ago, in the rain. After an 8 day week we returned in sunshine to a beautiful Pamlico River sunset. This is a transition time of the year. One day it seems like spring and then comes overnight cold and wind with trees shedding leaves. This is true even in Florida!
Election news is everywhere and people are getting upset and trying to make some choices. If you look at ads, each candidate is "perfect." In reality, our national and local governments are reflecting the outlook of voters which is anxious and angry, in my view.
Why???
Our elections and candidates for office are trying to capture us by being like us.
I don't know of a single race I reviewed as we overnighted and traveled Interstates from NC, through SC, GA, and ending back in Beaufort County after a 7-day stay with a long lost Cousin living near Egland AFB in Florida. Our Scarborough last Nephew was getting married on Navarre Beach so it was a mini-reunion of sorts. On the way back we got to visit with my mother who is 96 years young in a care home. The "Sound of Freedom" was overhead as pilots practiced in broken-cloud skies.
We visited and saw the Armament Museum on the base. It is amazing the progress in air warfare from bi-planes with men using pistols and small machine guns to the mighty JDAM bomb and Gatling cannons that can spit out shells like a burp. They turn human flesh into mush from out of nowhere. It is a brutal picture of total destruction. Each weapon costs us millions of dollars when applied to Terrorists and enemies we target. It is a far cry from the days of yore with muzzle loaders and, before that, swords and arrows. This has developed in the lifetime of my mother. She rode wagons to church and school with a lap robe to keep warm. Now, she can board a jumbo jet and go around the world if she were able. Her travel these days is in her dreams as she sleeps more than being awake at her elder stage of life. Soon she will be with our loved ones in a "home above" where people do not practice war and hate.
As I reflect on the journey and the week, I shall share several observations I hope will strike your fancy and provoke some deeper thoughts of a spiritual nature.
The first of several things I will share in a series is THE NATURE OF THE INTERSTATE.
1. You must plan a route.
Today we have tools like Map Quest or a GPS to make it easier than reading a map. My query from Bath, NC, to Crestview, FLA, gave me a route down I-95 to Jacksonville, FLA, then across the top on I-10 to within a few miles of Pensacola. It projected time and fuel usage with another alternate route through Valdosta, GA, off the Interstate. I have been there before --- going to Mobile, ALA, for Hurricane Katrina clean up. I knew you can maximize speed by sticking with Interstate all the way, even though the angle through Valdosta was shorter.
In other words, "Personal knowledge gives you information far better than facts alone."
2. People show their real nature on an Interstate Highway.
On the Autobahn in Germany, there is no speed limit. Our Interstate System is modeled after German engineering with multiple lanes, lanes to speed up and slow down to match the posted speed, wide shoulders and guard rails or a median to trap cars before they enter a head-on situation. They could handle almost any speed, but we limit it on the coasts of America. In the Mid-West, there are open spaces and there is no posted speed. It is designed to keep us from killing ourselves with speed. The tax coffers get a big boost from those who willfully go over 10 mph beyond the posted speed. If they want to boost a local economy, the Sheriff can gang up on drivers and get rich. This was going on in the southbound lane around Dunn yesterday. As many as 10 cars were parked in plain sight ready to bust any speeder.
Some might complain, but I saw something else --- most of those stopped were being given a complete body search and drug dogs were present. Since the patrol cars were in plain sight, the purpose yesterday was to check out the "drug pipeline" using I-95! Drug runners tend to forget the speed in pursuit of their "riches from poisoning our children with drug addiction." I applaud their efforts and efficiency and am glad they weren't on my side of the highway!
I religiously use my speed control and check the posted limit. I have never been stopped if going less than 10 mph over the posted speed on any NC Highway. I also have been checked a few times when a law enforcement task force is checking cars for proper license and insurance. This is another good measure to insure public safety and proper insurance. The wise driver also has an "uninsured motorist" rider on the car. Too many are driving our roads without insurance and the cost of repair is terrible if you choose not to take the rider.
Highway courtesy is a MUST when driving fast. My biggest gripe is those who refuse to "drive on the right lane except to pass." This is where human nature shows itself most.
Alert drivers pull over when someone is trying to move on down the road. The signal to pull to the right lane is headlights flashed behind you. My big truck has high lights and is hard to miss. Driving my car is another matter. Some drivers are selfish and greedy. They don't want to yield to faster traffic. A moving traffic jam is the result every time. I-95 is the most famous road for such antics. All the people wanting to go to Disney World are so focused on what is ahead that frustrated drivers are constantly flashing their lights to go elsewhere.
Selfishness and greed are the most egregious of the human personality traits, in my view.
The last thing to note is the driver who only wants to get ahead and then slows down. He is using his lust for dominance to guide his foot on the accelerator. I can pass him on the right most times because he won't move over either. Then he wants to close the safety gap at high speed and try to keep up and aggravate me. It can cause "road rage" these days.
All I can say about that "gentleman" is that he drives a big black Mercedes and has a Pittsburg Steelers sign in his back window! He was headed for Beaufort County, but managed to get ahead and go on when we made the last turn toward Washington. I was just glad to see him gone!
I suspect he is an angry Conservative voter from his actions showing his inner self. He might be a pushy person at Wal-Mart jumping in front of me. The driving habits show a lack of respect for a fellow traveler on our great multi-lane NC Highway System.
The more people are jammed together on an over-crowded highway, the more they rage and push. I am just glad I don't live in Atlanta. It was the worst part of the journey home by way of a visit with my elderly mother.
Go Back
Election news is everywhere and people are getting upset and trying to make some choices. If you look at ads, each candidate is "perfect." In reality, our national and local governments are reflecting the outlook of voters which is anxious and angry, in my view.
Why???
Our elections and candidates for office are trying to capture us by being like us.
I don't know of a single race I reviewed as we overnighted and traveled Interstates from NC, through SC, GA, and ending back in Beaufort County after a 7-day stay with a long lost Cousin living near Egland AFB in Florida. Our Scarborough last Nephew was getting married on Navarre Beach so it was a mini-reunion of sorts. On the way back we got to visit with my mother who is 96 years young in a care home. The "Sound of Freedom" was overhead as pilots practiced in broken-cloud skies.
We visited and saw the Armament Museum on the base. It is amazing the progress in air warfare from bi-planes with men using pistols and small machine guns to the mighty JDAM bomb and Gatling cannons that can spit out shells like a burp. They turn human flesh into mush from out of nowhere. It is a brutal picture of total destruction. Each weapon costs us millions of dollars when applied to Terrorists and enemies we target. It is a far cry from the days of yore with muzzle loaders and, before that, swords and arrows. This has developed in the lifetime of my mother. She rode wagons to church and school with a lap robe to keep warm. Now, she can board a jumbo jet and go around the world if she were able. Her travel these days is in her dreams as she sleeps more than being awake at her elder stage of life. Soon she will be with our loved ones in a "home above" where people do not practice war and hate.
As I reflect on the journey and the week, I shall share several observations I hope will strike your fancy and provoke some deeper thoughts of a spiritual nature.
The first of several things I will share in a series is THE NATURE OF THE INTERSTATE.
1. You must plan a route.
Today we have tools like Map Quest or a GPS to make it easier than reading a map. My query from Bath, NC, to Crestview, FLA, gave me a route down I-95 to Jacksonville, FLA, then across the top on I-10 to within a few miles of Pensacola. It projected time and fuel usage with another alternate route through Valdosta, GA, off the Interstate. I have been there before --- going to Mobile, ALA, for Hurricane Katrina clean up. I knew you can maximize speed by sticking with Interstate all the way, even though the angle through Valdosta was shorter.
In other words, "Personal knowledge gives you information far better than facts alone."
2. People show their real nature on an Interstate Highway.
On the Autobahn in Germany, there is no speed limit. Our Interstate System is modeled after German engineering with multiple lanes, lanes to speed up and slow down to match the posted speed, wide shoulders and guard rails or a median to trap cars before they enter a head-on situation. They could handle almost any speed, but we limit it on the coasts of America. In the Mid-West, there are open spaces and there is no posted speed. It is designed to keep us from killing ourselves with speed. The tax coffers get a big boost from those who willfully go over 10 mph beyond the posted speed. If they want to boost a local economy, the Sheriff can gang up on drivers and get rich. This was going on in the southbound lane around Dunn yesterday. As many as 10 cars were parked in plain sight ready to bust any speeder.
Some might complain, but I saw something else --- most of those stopped were being given a complete body search and drug dogs were present. Since the patrol cars were in plain sight, the purpose yesterday was to check out the "drug pipeline" using I-95! Drug runners tend to forget the speed in pursuit of their "riches from poisoning our children with drug addiction." I applaud their efforts and efficiency and am glad they weren't on my side of the highway!
I religiously use my speed control and check the posted limit. I have never been stopped if going less than 10 mph over the posted speed on any NC Highway. I also have been checked a few times when a law enforcement task force is checking cars for proper license and insurance. This is another good measure to insure public safety and proper insurance. The wise driver also has an "uninsured motorist" rider on the car. Too many are driving our roads without insurance and the cost of repair is terrible if you choose not to take the rider.
Highway courtesy is a MUST when driving fast. My biggest gripe is those who refuse to "drive on the right lane except to pass." This is where human nature shows itself most.
Alert drivers pull over when someone is trying to move on down the road. The signal to pull to the right lane is headlights flashed behind you. My big truck has high lights and is hard to miss. Driving my car is another matter. Some drivers are selfish and greedy. They don't want to yield to faster traffic. A moving traffic jam is the result every time. I-95 is the most famous road for such antics. All the people wanting to go to Disney World are so focused on what is ahead that frustrated drivers are constantly flashing their lights to go elsewhere.
Selfishness and greed are the most egregious of the human personality traits, in my view.
The last thing to note is the driver who only wants to get ahead and then slows down. He is using his lust for dominance to guide his foot on the accelerator. I can pass him on the right most times because he won't move over either. Then he wants to close the safety gap at high speed and try to keep up and aggravate me. It can cause "road rage" these days.
All I can say about that "gentleman" is that he drives a big black Mercedes and has a Pittsburg Steelers sign in his back window! He was headed for Beaufort County, but managed to get ahead and go on when we made the last turn toward Washington. I was just glad to see him gone!
I suspect he is an angry Conservative voter from his actions showing his inner self. He might be a pushy person at Wal-Mart jumping in front of me. The driving habits show a lack of respect for a fellow traveler on our great multi-lane NC Highway System.
The more people are jammed together on an over-crowded highway, the more they rage and push. I am just glad I don't live in Atlanta. It was the worst part of the journey home by way of a visit with my elderly mother.
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