Pure Driving

Pure driving is the sweetest thing that any driver can do. It is obeying all the rules of the road in whatever state or country that you find yourself in and just cruising along watching the world go by as you maintain your correctness in driving. No swerving, going over any dotted lines, moving from center to right and back again. It is unconsciously compensating for the inconsistencies in the road and not be surprised by it. It is peace between man and machine and God. Do not get my wrong here I am not advocating for transhumanism, anything but, because it is God who controls our peace, our emotions, our reflexes, and many other things when we are driving.

I can still remember the many routes that I drove in my mind’s eye even though I am not currently driving them. One of my favorite ways to get to Interstate 80 from Idaho going south on I-15 is to take US 30. What a beautiful drive and you are able to see many mountains, wildlife, small towns, curves, and avoid some treacherous hills on I-80 by doing so. Even in the wintertime it is usually open even though it is a little icy the road crews still maintain the road.

There are so many beautiful drives that I have taken to many to name. I used to drive Interstate 5 from Seattle to Los Angeles on a regular basis and there are many mountains to cross and weave through, but you get to go by Mt. Shasta and other beautiful canyons and open places as well and go over Shasta Lake.

I love the north country for its beauty but have to live in the south these days because my body is rebelling the cold weather. When I worked out of Spokane Washington it does on a regular basis in the wintertime get into the negative numbers on temperatures such as -30, -60. It is a beautiful place to work out of and return to though and I did for seven years. Speaking of the Spokane area another great drive that I used to make on a fairly regular basis is from Spokane to Calgary Alberta Canada using the hwy I-90 to US 95 north to hwy 3 to hwy 2. Sometimes I would get all the way up to Edmonton, Alberta. I also got to drive from Spokane to Gary Indiana on a pretty regular basis and got to see a lot of Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconcin and Indiana. Sometimes I would drop down to I-80 but is was usually more congested and sometimes more snow on the roads.

All driving gives me peace because I need to constantly stay moving or in motion. Have you ever experienced the peace that comes from pure driving on a wide open road with no one around you except the machine and God? It is beautiful.