The Working Writer's Screenplay

 

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.