Sunday, December 23, 2018

Conveyances

It's been an interesting life.

All sorts of cars and trucks, a fire engine, an ambulance, a bulldozer, and a betjah. Hovercraft, ferries of all sizes, outboards, rafts, the Queen Mary, a canal barge, DC-8, DC-9, 707, 727, 737, Trident, Fokker, L-1011, 747, 757, 767, 777, Airbus, Embreaer, and BAE. An ancient prop with magneto ignition, a fast Cessna turboprop, an ultralight, ATV, utility crane, go cart, sled, and horseback. A wheelchair, a Chapman, a doorway dolly, shopping cart, and handheld leaning out of a TR-3. The parlor car on the 20th Century Limited, dining car on the Hiawatha, and the rung of a freight car. Subways, buses, British Rail, moving sidewalks, steam trains, a surgical gurney, and a parade float. Memorable taxi rides, golf carts, and Town Cars. Thousands of elevator doors opening and closing, an infinity of stairs, escalators, cobbles, asphalt, gravel, concrete, cornfields, storm drains, white sand beaches, ladders, and a bicycle built for two. My favorite destination was rural Luxembourg, but Singapore was pretty damn splendid.

If I was granted a wish, Elko beckons.

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