Going down the highway gives me so much time to think. The car becomes my private sanctuary. It protects me. I see all the people out there in my immediate world, but they are anonymous. I am one with them, yet I am totally separate and immune from intrusion. I can be absolutely silent and listen to nothing but tires meeting pavement; the clickety clack of my new tires on worn out patched up roadbed. Or, I can play any genre music that suits my momentary mood,and sometimes laugh at NPR's "Wait, wait! Don't tell me!"or I sing along, as loud as I can, to my treasured oldies. I stop when and if I want to, and get to play tourist if the fancy strikes me.... I am a woman. Alone. It is a very good time to be alone. Everyone should have the opportunity to travel coast to coast in solitude.
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