What do you do to feel alive, to hear the rhythm of your heart and feel it beating in your chest? For me there are few pleasures more intoxicatingly liberating as driving my car on an open road with the roof down. The high I find in these moments makes this my drug of choice.
There’s something just irresistibly seductive about a clear star filled night sky and the empty roads. As most people are heading to bed and I’m heading home from a friends house a night like this is like a written invitation to me. It’s cold, but I crank up the heater, put the roof down then turn up the music as I make my way to the countryside back roads.
Once I’m far enough away from the street lights, under a blanket of darkness it’s time to unleash the horses trapped inside the engine and allow them to gallop. The bushes and trees flash past me in a white illuminated blur. My heart rate races as the blood surges through my viens like the fuel burning as I bury my right foot to the floor.
Not that I was in any doubt, but I am alive! I feel exuberant and the rush of speed driven elation as the car writhes underneath me like a beast wildly snarling to attack the road ahead. Every bump amplified, every curve a dance, and every corner a dare.
Yes it was cold tonight, and yes I burned through a painful amount of fuel in no time at all, but you’ll never convince me it’s not worth it. Fast or slow, the smile upon my face doesn’t get much broader than it is at moments like this.
I love these roads, I love my car, I love my life!
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Going topless
The long way home
VW Jetta ‘Pink Moon’ commercial
Wrote the following comment on Nov 10, 2010 at 4:22 am
i love how you have the clock on the side, to let us know what time it is in the UK.
Wrote the following comment on Nov 10, 2010 at 9:59 am
Go anywhere near Ness Gardens?
;)
Wrote the following comment on Nov 10, 2010 at 11:15 am
You obviously don’t drive a crappy beige mini with rust, condensation and a hole in floor.
Wrote the following comment on Nov 10, 2010 at 12:39 pm
@ Mark – I don’t drive a crappy mini, but believe me Mark, I have driven a good number of them in the past. In fact this beige mini original was one of the cars I used to truly love throwing around. There was something about it that was just perfectly balanced.
Wrote the following comment on Nov 11, 2010 at 9:00 pm
Boys and their toys! (You do look quite cute in that picture though ;-)
Wrote the following comment on Nov 11, 2010 at 11:42 pm
I think I wish I were your car…..
Wrote the following comment on Nov 12, 2010 at 12:33 am
@ Jessica & @ Susan – Stop now, you’re making me blush. LOL :-)
Wrote the following comment on Nov 12, 2010 at 12:16 pm
So wait a second, is blogging now the new sexy? Is this how you get groupies in the modern age? It would seem so looking at those two comments. In my day it was all about being on Television. How things have changed.