Any fellow drivers on sighsee?
Sometimes when I'm all fucked up I get in my car and go one direction until I find some cool spots or stuff. I never usually stop anywhere but it feels good to wander.
so what are your favorite spots to drive around? what do you see? any crazy stories roaming?
Bike rider here. Living in South East Asia. When I get depressed I like to go for night drives on the freeway. It's the only time the air isn't hot and overbearingly muggy. My bike's a 400cc comfy vintage looking thing that's incredibly smooth. Daytime traffic is hectic and everyone is on edge. But at night it all dissapears and hence I drive slower, at 50km/h just cruising, looking at reflections of the city skylines on the wet road. Just enjoying the low roar of the engine with nothing and nobody ahead or behind me. During the day I'm a speed demon, feeding off the murderous energy of careless drugged up truck drivers deprived of sleep moving piled up loads of sugar cane and cow shit while checking their phones. They run me off lanes and cut in my path constantly. I've grown to control my anger and never let it take charge of my bike. After all they're probably packing something. I'm as irrelevant as a mosquito to them, just as I am to the corrupt mafia that calls themselves law enforcement here. I swallow my hate and slow down or rev up to get out of the way. But at night the road is mine and mine alone. Most people here are illiterate superstitious jackasses so I have no mind to stop anywhere really. Just drive and feel the metal mass of my machine leaning into a curve, heavy as it is yet steered with as little as a feathered touch to the bar.
Never did see anything too crazy while roaming. But I have learned how our weaknesses can be sources of strength. ADHD was always a source of pain and the night drives were initially attempts at mental decompression. Over time I realized that overthinking things neurotically also keep me alive on the road. Like the time I shot myself through a tight gap between two stopped lanes after hearing that most dreaded of all sounds to a biker - the long screeching of brakes coming from a car behind me, travelling at high speed and destined to pummel me. My neurotic tendencies saved me then. Maybe they save me in other ways too.
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I'm 31 and once I got my driver's loicense I never drove again. I'm afraid of it. Cars go really fast and I'm afraid of controlling such a powerful machine
literally me
i've driven across the US once, but feel like I missed a lot in the interest of time. Hope I can do more traveling on moto now that I have my endorsement. The freedom is a good feeling so I hope there are some more posts in this thread
yeah it's great. I've done aimless day trips on bike and by car just checking out spots that looked interesting on the map. also rode chicago to the bay area mostly avoiding interstates (a utah state road that looked fine on the map turned out to be closed on account of snow lel, had to detour)
pics from that one are on my hd so have a pic from a dirt ride up to a decommissioned fire lookout instead
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When I get drunk I zoom around the 101-202 loops in Phoenix, no crazy stories but it's really fun since there's never any traffic or cops after like 3am.
Been a Driver ever since I saw the movie. It sucks though because I live in the Midwest and it's like 3+ hours to the nearest other big cities.
I've had some enjoyable drives on rural midwestern two-lanes.
Oh yeah. Berkeley hills, CA-16, Marsh Creek, the little two-lanes from Hollister to Paso Robles....
Yeah, the novelty just wears off when there's nothing to see but cornfields.
One of the few up sides of living in commiefornia are that we probably have the best scenery and roads to drive on
I drive on 35 (pic related) in the middle of the night. It's a free videogame racetrack at those times and it's just a bunch of 19 year old kids in clapped Nissans flying past you at 100+ mph and no one else.
No cops, no stress, just driving through the forest and hills.
i have a huracan that i take out almost everynight. anywhere i go people are walking up to say hi. i dont have a home, i move around every few months to airbnbs, and i can put together a circle of friends in about a month tops in super small 10k pop towns. if you give anyone young a ride, they'll intro you to everyone they know for the most part, having the car around elevates everyone else. and lambos basically don't exist outside major cities so for most people its the 1st time theyve ever touched one
not exactly on topic but i figured id share because im not a car person, the fact i have it wasnt even very intentional, it was a gift from my boss, and it flipped my social life on its head. since i dont really care if anyone crashes it, i let others drive it a lot, ive never had anyone (over 1000 people have driven it at this point) try to steal it or damage it or be rude or anything whatsoever, which was also surprising. lot of people don't like me, but even they showed massive respect to the car 100% of the time. also, there are fuckign tons of hot young girls that are into cars. like these bitches know more about cars than guys do, they work on their cars
negative experiences are that people will troll you and go 10mph because you're behind them. it's a homeless crackhead fly trap but that hasn't lead to anything other than being shouted at, once a guy threw a bag at me
anyway total eye opener. i always thought the memes about having expensive cars was nonsense
I've always owned shitboxes.
Couldn't afford a car that i really love yet. Still, i have had lots of fun in my cars. I take them to the local mountain roads and push them, or just cruise when it's foggy or rainy while listening to some music. my last shitbox was rusty beyond repair so i offroaded it trough a dried up river creek and did skids in the gravel/ snow. When i see something cool i like to take pictures. I sometimes see deers, racoons and foxes on the backroads. The deer like to scare the shit out of me when they enter the road. Sometimes i encounter people speeding in newer cars. it's fun to keep up with them in my much slower 50hp pos.