Re: Weekend Bay Area Cruise - Lone Wolf Style

["Zach Vrooman" <zach@discover-net.net>]

My job requires working Saturdays. This leaves me with the previous Monday
off. Many times last summer and fall, I'd go out to work on the 'rocc, but,
evil vixen that she is, we'd end up on the road, with no destination in
mind, and all day to get there. Nothing gets the daily bullshit out of your
mind quicker than rollin' with the sunroof open, wind blowing through the
hair(or what's left of it, as the case may be) and good tunes crankin'
through the stereo. Unfortunately, where I'm at (northern WI) it's too damn
cold yet. I am eagerly awaiting spring, and the warmth it brings. My 'rocc
is too. I can feel it.  Cruising with friends is cool, but you gotta run
solo sometimes. It's good for what ails you. Sorry for the rambling.

Zach

http://www.discover-net.net/~zach/index.html


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> From: T Berk <tberk@mindspring.com>
> To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Subject: Weekend Bay Area Cruise - Lone Wolf Style
> Date: Tuesday, February 23, 1999 1:37 PM
> 
> 
> We are such different people, these listmembers of mine, Yet there is a
> thread of life that runs though us all that we might share this common
> taste, this wonderment with a thing that we find worth experiencing.
> 
> 
> Just this last weekend was the 3rd Sat. of the month, a good and proper
> time to coagulate with the members of the A1 Scirocco Club, a member I
> count myself one of, however peripheral. 
> 
> Sunday though, was an impromptu Come on Out and Cruise with the
> brotherhood meet, So I postponed Sat until Sun with the knowledge it was
> to start at ND in Santa Clara by the airport, and include a run up
> Highway 9.
> 
> For those of you who aren't familiar with the San Fran Bay Area, we are
> hours within reach of almost any climate you might imagine- people have
> gotten blasé' about being able to Surf and Ski within the same day.
> 
> If any and all who have a chance to drive though my part of the world,
> let me know when you are around, I will be available to join on a drive
> though the Bay. You spec the time frame, I'll generate some fun times. 
> 
> On this particular day, Up on Skyline Blvd., the old road that leads
> from Santa Cruz to San Francisco, are lots of twisty roads that run up
> under the trees, and it was looking to be an enjoyable get together with
> some far flung Buds, to twist some drivies and knock back one or two
> suddly ones.
> 
> Doh! Battery rundown on Sat eve means Sunday afternoon won't find the
> starter turning. Crap! My brother's out of town, and no ones around, so
> I'm late to the rondevouse.
> 
> Rats! they're all gone, as I break out the map and plot me a course, up
> to Highway 9 and Skyline by way of Saratoga, a sleepy little hillside
> burg full of old timers & people with enough money to escape to the
> hills.
> 
> My car is an '81 silver Scirocco. Courtesy of the previous owner I have
> large sway bars, stiff but worn shocks and struts, shock mounts that I
> don't like to think about as they clunk and bang, and springs of
> undetermined origin. The rims are 13 inchers with 205/60 series rubber
> and two different brands of rubber on the front and the back. One pair
> of the set is a part of the Falken lineup. When it rains I slip and
> slide, when its dry they sing before slipping. So many things that need
> fixing, so many upgrades to perform.
> 
> On this- the "any given Sunday", I found myself and my car, all tired
> and worn as it was, in a wonderland of turns and corners, uneven
> pavement and semi patched potholes, Lovin it and Digg'n it. a'Wonderful,
> a'marvelous. With no one to follow and no one to lead, I was free to
> follow my Muse, to paint my own trial.
> 
> Up, down, in and around, even past an 'other the way going' police
> cruiser as I chirped the tires. Heh, heh. The roads were treacherous in
> spots due to recent rains, bicyclist in other spots posed obstacles to
> my aging paint job and future status as a 'not to be a felon guilty of
> manslaughter' type driver.
> 
> By the time a short hour and a half was over, I was back in
> civilization, surrounded by the familiar and somehow not all charged up,
> no longer brimming with adrenaline. 
> 
> 
> Drive it in the county, tonic to your nerves. Good for what ails ya.
> Balm to your soul.
> 
> If you don't drive Scirocco, you wouldn't understand. Don't bother
> asking unless you want to know.
> 
> 
> 
> Peace be with you and yours,
> TBerk
> 
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