Category Archives: Driving

DOWN THE COAST By Peter Nolan Smith

October 1, 2022 – 2:43 pm

Skyline Drive crested a hill and the bright California sun crowned the hundreds of identical houses snaking up the streets of Daly City with a golden nimbus. Smoke from sizzling meat floated above countless backyards, as suburban families celebrated Memorial Day with holiday barbecues. I longed for a seared hamburger and a beer, but tramped […]

By Peter | Also posted in 70s, California, hitchhiking, semi-fiction, Sex, youth | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Most Dangerous Drivers in Pattaya

August 19, 2022 – 1:34 pm

I’ve been traveling in Asia over thirty years and have survived a head-on motorcycle crash along the Burma border, a mudslide in Sulawesi, and the chaos of Bangkok traffic. My scariest drive in Thailand was during a blinding rainstorm through the Khao Yai Mountains. Insects smashed into the windscreen and the wipers smeared their bodies […]

By Peter | Also posted in Health, Heaven, motorbikes, motorcycles, Pattaya | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)

Faster Than Hell

April 18, 2022 – 10:01 am

Back in 1984 a Paris friend bought a fiendishly fast KZ 1100 cc bike. One evening we were sitting at le Savanne, an African transvestite after-hour bar in Les Halles, Francois dangled the keys in front of my face, “How you like to take the monster for a ride?” I had a Vespa. Its top […]

By Peter | Also posted in 70s, 80s, cars, Movies / TV, PARIS | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

NOT ALL CRASHES ARE ACCIDENTS by Peter Nolan Smith

April 17, 2022 – 7:08 am

I never met Princess Diana, although a friend of a friend married her brother. Diana would have been at the wedding. I never received an invitation. No great loss, because the Princess of Wales wasn’t my type, however I viewed her death as a blow against the empire of goodness. I arrived in London the […]

By Peter | Also posted in 90s, cars, Crime, England, PARIS, semi-fiction | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

Black Ice

January 29, 2022 – 1:52 am

Last month smug northerners ridiculed the snowbound paralysis of Dallas. ‘Maybe we should airlift Maine drivers down to the South to teach them how to drive in winter conditions,” joked a friend at the 169 Bar in Chinatown.. “My grandfather once said, “There are two seasons in Maine, the season of good sledding and the […]

By Peter | Also posted in boston, New England | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)