Category Archives: Driving

LUCKY IN LOVE by Peter Nolan Smith

January 5, 2012 – 12:12 pm

The dawn sun rose over the eastern mountains and flooded the Bonneville Salt Flats. The Torino station wagon was parked several miles off the interstate. At that distance even the trucks’ throttling diesels were waffled by the dry wind. I sat up on my sleeping bag. The red sun tinted the salt flats with a [...]

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THE Id LOUNGE by Peter Nolan Smith

January 5, 2012 – 3:42 am

The Rockies were blurring in the window of the Inferno Lounge. AK tapped me on the shoulder and I turned my eyes away from the distant mountains to the interior of Sterling, Colorado’s only bar. Carol was nowhere in sight and I was drunk for the first time since leaving Boston. “It’s time to go.” [...]

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WEST AHEAD by Peter Nolan Smith

January 4, 2012 – 3:45 am

I-80 weaved through the wooded Berkshires into the Hudson Valley. The four-lanes skirted Albany to shadow the Mohawk Trail past the small cities of northern New York. The gentle hills of the Finger Lakes pancaked into a fertile plain of farmlands. The three of us planned to reach Colorado by Memorial Day. I added up [...]

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JAI YEN MAI by Peter Nolan Smith

December 28, 2011 – 8:48 am

Several years ago on Boxing Day my daughter was playing on our soi in Pattaya. A pick-up roared down the street like the driver had murdered his wife and was bell-bent for the border. From my perspective the bumper came too close to my little precious daughter. I jumped on my scooter and chased the [...]

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THE FIRST FORTY MILES by Peter Nolan Smith

December 26, 2011 – 10:51 am

THE FIRST FORTY MILES by Peter Nolan Smith  In late May 1974 my friend AK, a blonde co-ed from BU, and I picked up a Ford Torino Squire not far from the Forest Hills T station. The car was parked in a driveway next to a three-story apartment building off Centre Street. The middle-aged [...]

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