Oct 13, 2009

Moving at high speed


Here is a photo, taken in the fall of 1986 of a sunset reflection as viewed through a side rear view mirror of my newly purchased 1987 Porsche while on a road trip to bring it home to N.J. from the dealer in Seattle, Washington.

My dad and I had taken on the trip, flying out to pick this awesome machine up and journeying together cross country via the Northern U.S. Route 2. We traveled through scenic National Parks, long desolate stretches of seemingly uninhabited open highways and stopped to visit old friends together, enjoying our own fellowship along the way. It was a very memorable week or so for me as I enjoyed the time alone with my father and the chats we had, although he since has revealed that one point on the Going to the Sun Road in Glacier National Park, he did not enjoy the conversation as much, as I was whizzing around the curves with a cliff to his door, but we did if fact to my credit, make it home in tact. The sunset shot from this particular vehicle is even more meaningful to me now, as the car itself has faced it's temporary sunset in a garage under a blanket, hopefully to enjoy a revival trip and a real sunset at it's back again someday.