| Author | Message | ||
     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8781 Registered: 05-2005 |
2019 is dull and grey so far, but it is 22 degrees at 6am, so there's that. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1112 Registered: 03-2007 |
Just over an hour to go here in Scotland but a Happy New Year and all the best for 2019 to the members of the forum. A grey overcast day here in Scotland but, with temperatures hovering around 10C, not too bad for this time of the year. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4033 Registered: 03-2005 |
Happy New Year everyone! I took advantage of the city's hangover and steered a 58 year old Italian convertible (Lancia Flaminia) out onto a local freeway. What with climate change and the ever-increasing density of Los Angeles, running this old beast is now a true anachronism but it was lovely to hear its ancient old-tech mechanicals whir and clatter at highway speed and the vista of blue sky and house and tree studded hillsides was intoxicating. It was like an idealized travel back in time, idealized because the era when traffic would have been so light as a more normal thing was also an era before emissions awareness and that sky would not have been so blue nor the view of the hillsides so crystalline. The temperature was about 53 degrees F, about 12 degrees C so not too much warmer than Hugh's New Years Day in Ayreshire. A little after noon it's now 58 F (about 14.5 C). Beautiful weather. We've all had a confusing year. Let's hope people start to make sense in 2019. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8783 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, what a beautiful evocation of driving in LA. Was it the PCH? | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 1262 Registered: 08-2004 |
Was stuck at work for new year as 2018 turned to 2019 which was a once in a lifetime experience. Once I got over my personal glums settled in for some fun new music and the only real difference Was a few fireworks and a nice overnight chat with the family. Hoping for a great new year to all Go-B's fans worldwide despite the Brexit Blues and Trump Triumphalism.Think I have the title for my first one man band composition right there. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4039 Registered: 03-2005 |
Padraig, no it wasn't PCH. It was really just a relatively short stretch of the Golden State (I-5) and then Ventura (134) freeways before I figured I'd better drop onto the city's surface streets because in my haste to head out I had not checked the inflation in the old Michelin X tube-type tires. (Under-inflated tires overheat at highway speed.) The area where these two freeways intersect is surrounded by vistas of hillsides in every compass direction. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8788 Registered: 05-2005 |
Golden State and Ventura sound even more alluring than Pacific Coast Highway. Californians sure are good at giving their highways and freeways romantic names. |