I begin March Windsor. Started off this morning, the doors were frozen, had to melt them, scared I'd have to use binder twine or something, but I didn't. Then WCSX Detroit. 85% of callers in favor of strong fines for misuse  American Flag. INTERSTATE 94 - Okay coming out of Detroit now. I'm just past the outskirts, getting into Dearborn, car seems to be moving effortless along, car seems to be effortless  along to the gas pedal, wheels aligned , rolling , almost be a new car. It was like this in 1977, same highway. same feeling. But we shall  see happens. Scared to say it's going good. At the beginning of the trip, it's like bad luck, like, like when you're flying and you say it's going. Nobody ever ever does that. 

Passing Detroit Metro Airport, reminds me of 1968, my cousin Bill was married. I spent about five or six hours with a girl at the airport, she was from Los Angeles. We waited for her flight, we talked about seven a.m. Never saw her again. Across the freeway, the Hilton where I stayed with Brenda, my ex-wife  on our wedding night. Traffic fairly heavy. Lots of traffic moving out with lots of things for America. It'll be  different in Iowa, where it's not as crowded. There'll be room to think on the highways whereas here, There'll be room to think on the highways whereas here you just concentrate all the time on the cars and trucks around.

About these roads - I remember Michigan roads are being all of the best, but right now they are in need of repair.  Potholls the size of Japanese cars. A load of new cars pass me, looking down at the old Camaro as they crowd together on a truck, heading for new homes. Someday they'll be driving along a road, much older than today, and a load of new cars will pass them. Once again, I will I have the opportunity to continue my study of shopping malls. I can smell them out now. They are great places to watch people, you learn about the community and it's people. Pass by a STUCKY'S, gas/candy/cafe which was a big deal once. And they're abandoned, grass growing. Worked in it's time  - but it doesn't seem to work now. The great thing about American freeways, in most states you can tell exactly by the mile post signs, as well as the exact by the mile posts as well as the exit numbers. Jackson Michigan - two things -- a prison and this is where the Republic Party was founded -- so there you go.

BUMPER STICKER - I LUV MY AMERICA car.

 

For myself, I felt I owed it to her. With nearly two hundred thousand miles to her credit, whatever the car owed thousand miles the $5800 it cost, the debt was more than paid in full. Friends urged me to send it to the machine that squashes them into cubes but I couldn't do that to her any more than I could do it to her. she deserve one last shot at a grand drive across the country that she crossed so many times so many times before. It would be her swan song.

I decide to keep a journal for several reasons. My original intent is to keep a record intent of the trip for the benefit of future generations. But, in the anticipation  that said future generations are not interested. I'll keep it for myself. Kind of an audio photo album where I can hear the sound the sound of the engine as I make as I make what will be undoubtedly profound observations on life.

My premise is simple enough. The Camaro is the last of the truly American car in my mind. Build when GM still had a hold on the industry. Hers is the one design that stands out in the mundane 70's. It's got a V8 engine and a manual transmission . Still, in 1977 not smothered  by sensors and electric gimmicks and things that look like black strands. What honor is there ask in a Honda or Toyota with with it's engine pointed to the side of the road. 

Breaking another road rule, I only  minimally prepare the car for it's long range ordeal. A chance of oil and a lube job, when how far she gets. This, a figure is the true test. Maybe I'll make it as far as Iowa before the engine falls out or maybe before After Lewis and Clark didn't know what they'd  encounters. The worst thing that could happen is that it could break down a half an out of Toronto.

 

There are two things you need when starting a road trip. A clean car and a full tank of gas. My father taught me that. A clean car and a full tank of gas. A full tank of gas will get will get you on the road immediately  and you don't have to stop until lunch time. In 1803 Lewis and Clark began with the "Hudson Bay". They leisurely pulled out in the late morning. With only a few Indians to trade with. Shopping malls and discount stores. you can start with an empty car and have it filled after one day of travelling.

I started with a clean car and a full tank. Having packed the night before I was ready to begin. breaking another of my father's many road rules, I started in late afternoon. Just as commuters jammed into the freeways heading home. Just a little. I never had liked Toronto, never seemed to fall into it's a great great city. It is that, just not for me. I started with a clear clean car and a full tank. Having packed the night before I was ready to begin. Begin another of my father's many road rules, I started in late after noon just as commuters were heading home. Just a little more agony to insure I really wanted to live this city. I never had liked Toronto it's not a great city, it is that. Just not for me.

Two months earlier stuck in heavy traffic, I thought only about the road ahead. Down two Windsor and Detroit, west to Chicago, Iowa, upwards to South then to the prairies of the Canadian west, finally crossing over the Rockies  and crossing to the coastal rainforests of the Pacific Northwest and Vancouver. It's more than a simple road trip. It's the last trip. It's the last trip for my best friend. She won't be making many more after this she's simply too old. She is a 1977 Chevrolet Camaro, built in Norwood, Ohio originally dark blue. She's suffered vicious attacks of eastern rust. The bottom of the doors are rusted out a hole jabs out of the hood and a fan jabs where a fan blade tried to escape a year or two before. The paint has the dry mud.

Women have great difficulities understanding men at the best at times, but two areas continue baffle them. Firstly they can't. Firstly they can't what we see in the Three Stooges, and secondly, they can't more explain why why they continue their as long as they can. They' are funny. The second area is a little complex, more than my two years of Psych at Henry Ford College could hope to achieve.

 Jackson Hole, September 15 1991, steak 5 miles south with beer, starting to talk to an old couple type. Turn out to be a guide and turn out to be a guide for hunters hunting elk. Earlier, sunset in Spring Resort taking fanastic photos of the Tetons, known that all is fantastic early evening. Came from the French word where the mountains captured their word. As in a woman's breast.

A woman appears with a drink out of a private a barbeque and walks toward me to with nothing particular as her young man has nothing usual and she talks along the fence. She asks of that I was a professional camera. I used my brand new lens. We talk about about similar things, how people come to Jackson often. Finally I thought I should not take too much and she smiled and said "Don't let take into your her gaze." I left here thinking.

Someone at the next when I sat "wife is a writer" they listen as do I since they continue and I can't away from movie business and listen in silence. I wonder if Entertainment Tonight" does so well. I think some ideas fly over words in Hollywood. I am in the business also, I'm a writer and have a fair amount of feature films to say I'm good. 'They're The Salad Days". They talk about more how the movie here in Jackson Hole and who is about in this movie. It's almost like a mountain still glowing in a black and white movie and I was in a Casablanca ending.

The guide shows up, I know him now behind me next the two obnoxious tourists who already also now someone with the crew and says his mate "If a bear will chase us run down hill and never probably  see them. I saw one run down a hill in the Yukon "74" with no problem. She had two young ones. 

Lowell wears his hat and so do the two so Lowell. He he had come into "harsh country" after an 8-day gig with these jerks, talking about fortitude. The waitress's are mountain girls, real life and talk to each other about the last people who came there and were idiots, she smiles to the tall one and smiles to me Tomorrow became fog at 6am. I left after a early hoping for not too much and carried the fog for about a few miles remembering the cloud will leave by itself under the magnificent colors towards Yellowstone ahead of already.

 

 Let's come back to where I come back a new start after the stories of the women I knew over and now where my start things over. Over is basically time and I am not sure exactly but it's around. I've had a tough time with my trying to push the rest of my life in for what's left.

I'm still closer to the beginning in my life than than the end or something that's closer than going more to what I'm writer rather than figure it out. As you might know that my the rest of it, that's enough for me as I'm healthy and can still write. And finish a screenplay last year and finish another. Eh?

Still I'm diving into a real-life story to give you some more about writing movies and a life of it that is still is going and having just go watch golf. Writing screen npages which is a lot more fun.and finding stories into people and mix them into weird stories that will give me more of those wonderful pieces of words and pictures that will last forever even when.

I am will be using the going along the highway of long and to find new things to see again between the US and Canada slipped into a combination of with now and then again and with Europe and Mexico to fulfill the holes left because of speed or unusual faces and places who I never new before and will captures of their hearts and their other.

This will catch the feel of many places that brought me to the start and brings the back to now for pieces of what we will wonder and think and find pieces of those whom I already spoke of and for the new ones who wonder who will find places of home or just simple surprises of what was.

A long time again back.