Yesterday I came back from a trip from Testosterone Heaven. It was a brief weekend getaway to Sin City, Las Vegas.
Las Vegas is the ultimate "material" girl type dreamland, so I thought. But the more I though about it, it made more sense to me, it's also Testosterone Heaven!
And the best place to experience "testosterone" is on your way to Vegas, driving down interstate 15.
Talk about macho driving! And this is not exclusive of male drivers; some specimen of the opposite sex also joined the party.
It's one thing when you have to share the road with other people for about 15 minutes to an hour, on a five lane freeway. But something totally different when you have to try to do the same thing for any period longer than an hour and a half on a two lane road.
One of the most amazing facts that I failed to recognize on my earlier trips is that this type of road chauvinism doesn’t discriminate against ethnicity or religious background: Rearview mirrors displayed and array of multicultural icons such as rosaries to worry beads; Chinese wooden symbols to the classic bridesmaid garter belt. Nothing could have prepared me for what I was about to see.
On one hand we have the ultra big, gas aspiring Hummer, the king of the road, the car that screams: Get out of my way! On the other hand is the new black Audi with four people inside trying to run everyone else out of the road. Then we approached the never failing 40 miles an hour RV that thinks that the lane marked by the truck sign is only meant for "runaway trucks"! Everyone gets on a bad mood behind this vehicle. Frustration spreads rapidly through the road and only those prepared with a calm but yet, strong spirit will survive! .
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que ha sido de ti?? Vuelve! Me gusta lo que escribes.
Saludos
Gracias por tu visita Ambrosia...
Perdi el enlace a tu pagina, pero ya te encontre nuevamente, te ire a visita por alla...!
Good observation:
"One of the most amazing facts that I failed to recognize on my earlier trips is that this type of road chauvinism doesn’t discriminate against ethnicity or religious background"
Or class.
I've always thought here in El Ley, freeways were the ultimate common denominator, that one common space where everyone congregates irrespective of background. After all, everyone has to drive the freeways (OK, I guess the homeless don't, but then again, there are those people who are homeless in cars so ¿quién sabe?) The same phenomena you saw in Vegas exists here: the pimped up Ferrari next to the broken down Honda, the celebrities and gardeners and politicians and señoras who clean houses, all fighting the traffic on the 405 or the 101 or ....
Thanks for an interesting read.
Saludos!
Hola Gato Volador, gracias por la visita... es cierto no? Aqui en California, el arte de manejar en los freeways no se domina asi no mas.... it's a jungle out there!!!
Una pregunta, alguna vez has estado en el 91 fwy? Es para desquiciar a cualquiera, especialmente el trecho que conecta Orange county y Riverside county... si algun dia decides practicar un deporte extremo, subete a tu auto y aventurate por el 91!
Uff, the 91 at rush hour, que pesadilla yendo desde Orange County a Chino! Pero igual de cargados y estresantes están todos los freeways, the 405, the 110, the 101, the 5 .... todos requieren de nervios de acero en las horas puntas!
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