Drive

At my surgical review last week, I was finally cleared to drive again!  Now you have to remember that back in January I bought myself a new car - the surgeon had guaranteed my recovery was only going to be about a week after all!  And now the surgeon had to ask if I really thought I was mentally competent to drive.  Really?

But, that was four months and three surgeries ago, With a whole lot of boring in-between .....

And yesterday, I finally got to drive my car!

Well, first up I  had to take care of a flat tire courtesy of GG, then pray that car to the gas station - also compliments of GG, and clean out all of the trash she left in the car (McDonald's bags and candy wrappers!  Sigh .....

I scootered out to the car, got in with no troubles, folded up the scooter, set it in the passenger floor area and fired my baby up.   The engine came to life, the turbo quietly purring, I gently pulled on to the street.  Slowly I pulled up to the stop sign.  The house on the corner has a Dodge Charger - lots of noise at 5 a.m. every morning, I am not so sure it has more power than this little four cylinder though.  I finished my drive to my favorite breakfast spot.

It was a beautiful drive.  The turbo is a little surprising in what it does and how it kicks in.  It will definitely be a great ride on this summer's drive to see my step-mother in Colorado!  Sweet.  Of course, it is a sleeper car, no one would ever guess that this little car produces almost 300 horsepower, much less gets 34.6 miles per gallon on this ride!  Tehe brochures say it can get up to 50 mpg - if you can keep your pedal off the floor!

But, I quickly figured out that I  am not really ready to drive - certainly of no real distance.  Yeah, my mind is not really sharp enough yet for that!  :(  So I will not be able to work the car through its five gears until very much later!  And I now notice that it really does not have an over drive, thought it did, but it could be that the fifth gear is geared high enough to accomplish this.  If it had been electric select, as GG's car is, then with judicious shifting and over-drive, it becomes a ten speed and if done correctly very smooth as it continues to accelerate through its gear range.  I would definitely then want to hunt that Charger on the corner!

Ah, a boy and his car!   Time to continue dreaming about driving ...