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November 11, 2007
My car got carted across the US by a semi-trailer. The driver was telling me that the US winter was his busy period as the 'Snowbirds' from the Northern States would fly to Florida and have their cars trucked in. Most of the New Yorkers and New Jerseyites would head to Florida, while the Mid-West states like Idaho and Minnesota would go to Arizona.
I had wanted to drive across the United States from Virginia to Arizona, however my work schedule got moved up and I could not fit in. Which was a shame. I noticed when the driver delivered my car he had cars on his truck with South Carolina and New Jersey number plates. I asked him, "How many times have you driven across the US?"
He looked into the air, thinking, and then said, "You know, I couldn't tell you. I have done it so many times I have lost count."
The car was pretty dirty when it came off the truck. It was carrying five days and two and a half thousand miles of road grime. Though the driver said to me the ones on the front of the truck collect bug litter too and since mine was on the back it wasn't as dirty as they can get. I splashed out some money at a local car wash to have the car detailed, calybar'd and buffed.
It came up nicely.
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Cam
it's ironic isn't it.The car, clebrated as the symbol of freedom in the US by the culture industry, is transported around the country because of the demands of work. What has happened to freedom on the endless celebrated that is celebrated in film and music?
Why the shift from Virginia to Arizona for work?