Oh, Heavens, is Katy a suburb of Houston now? I feel soooo old. Then again, I remember when places like Round Rock were not suburbs of Austin, before Austin began to mega-sprawl. I do miss the old Austin. It was like escaping having to live in Texas.
Yeah, I used to do 145 miles each way to get to the library, in Texas. Took me about two hours each way. Out in the great wide-open, window down, radio blaring, and a coke with lots of ice in-hand. Driving in town anywhere is stressful. The last time I drove a car in the UK we picked it up at an airport near a little town called Barrow Gurney. Can't remember where the airport is, but I remember Barrow Gurney because it was the first time I'd driven in the UK and I was doing ok on the "wrong" side of the road when I came around a bend and there was a lstone building in the middle of the road! That was a first for me. And then there was driving in Wales, where there apparently is no need to put street signs up to tell you the name of the street you are on. I was so happy to find "the motorway" - except for needing to go to one place to drop the car off and having there be a large split in the motorway pointing to "the Midlands" and somewhere else, neither of which name I was familiar with, so it was a 50/50 on which way to go. (I picked the wrong one. Scenic, but the wrong one.) Especially enjoyed the truck stop, where all these big, burly trucker types were sitting politely drinking tea. Something incongruous about big burly guys and small, dainty teacups. Oh, well. They were very nice and gave us directions.
Will be trying for a license this summer, but not sure I really want to ever drive here again. It's mainly so if we go back to the States to visit I can still rent a car there.
