In the editor: I am 90 years old and becomes a licensed California driver for 77 years, starting with a junior operator license when I went to 13. I teach driving for California National Guard and AARP. My wife and I love and marry for more than 50 years (“If a 7-hour road trip to 5 doesn’t break your marriage, it’s nothing,” July 1).
Our test attempt: no driver’s conversation is required. No distractions from driving. The wife acts as co-pilot – the heads-ups are welcomed, as personal demand demands. Routes are agreed before the trip begins. Rest and food stoppage has been removed as the trip goes on. Radio restraint is shared. HVAC has separate controls for driver and passenger. The driver does not use the phone. We usually do not carry passengers and thus, no car conversation.
My wife won’t ride other drivers and we have an agreement with my driving: If he believes I will never drive, I will tell him and I will not argue with him. Drive safely!
Ernest Salomon, Santa Barbara
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In the editor: Grow the child in public school teachers, I have experienced traveling road trips to my youth – gas cheap and places. Obviously, we do not have digital distractions and places we go to are all unique and representative of people living in different life than the suburbs. Moreover, no ubiquitous chains in the chain of the same look at any place we went to.
I will add a book to the guest’s guests in your guest’s syllabus to travel on the road in America (“Traveling on the road – attractive, bad and (almost) reclaimed in” July 3). That’s the smallest heat of the “blue highways of the month,” a rich American story in the 1980s and an exploration of differential endemic cultures in our country.
Peggy Perry, Claremont
