Driving through the mountains
Even in a Focus, was a good deal of fun. Since the road was utterly new to me, Pascal did most of the driving, letting me take over when the risk of throwing us both off the mountain was mostly over. There were long stretches where it seemed like only a small soft shoulder stood between the two of us and several hundred yards of OH SHIIIIIIIIITTT!!. We did pass one group of emergency vehicles apparently recovering a vehicle, though the nature of the vehicle was lost. They didn’t seem in a big hurry, so I assume whatever happened had happened much earlier. There were no skidmarks. There was no cellphone reception. We stopped and had breakfast in a place with pictures on the wall of celebrities who had driven through, hot bikes, hot cars. Pascal will have to remind me of the name of the place, and hopefully he can re send me the map of the route. I hope to drive it again.
Lot of roads in southeast OK where you see a sign that says ‘Curve, 15mph’, they’re NOT kidding.
And if you see a guard rail with a hole in it, it happened in the last day or so and hasn’t been repaired yet. They do it fairly quickly because that tells you when/where somebody driving over their head went through.
I think a Focus is a pretty good car, my self. I like the one I have anyway. About the only thing that can leave me in the weeds is a dedicated performance vehicle on dry pavement.
I would like to be in a behemoth once in a while just to intimidate some of the butt wipes out on the road.
But overall I like the Focus.
Course I had a Satellite Sebring once and like that well enough.
Oh, I can’t cast aspersions on the Focus. Just that I had been in a lotus 12 hours earlier.
Breakfast was at Newcomb’s Ranch roadhouse. (You can search for their fb page too.) The 2009 Station Fire missed them only by luck. You saw how much burn there was near them. The aftermath road closure shut them down for a year. Another road house, the Hidden Springs Cafe, was wiped out then and there no likelihood they will rebuild even if allowed by the econuts.
That 5-speed focus hatchback is a good car, even after 12 years and 150K miles. Sure it is no Elise, but our fat butts find it far more comfortable. We just gut it out on the hairpins. :)
Riding in a lotus should leave a big grin on any car guys face.