Driving Home Again

 

            It was a windy drive home from Seattle last evening. The wind was pushing the old Element around a little. It was kind of fun in way. The sun was going down over the west, glaring pretty good. Goodnight sun. Let me get through these miles!

            Anyhow, I was just doing the last few miles before Everett. All the leaves were turned upside down in that way they are when there is just a bit of a breeze. Then I realized how big those trees had gotten.

            The first time I drove up that freeway regularly was in 1966, the year I started at the community college, which at the time was called Everett Junior College, there had barely been any trees. The freeway had only been finished in about 1963. Before the freeway you had to take SR 9 to go up north. You could drive it to Canada. You still can. It’s a nice place to cross the border at Sumas. Or you can take I-5 all the way. I-5 joins BC Highway 99 at Blaine, WA, Surrey, BC. You could also take SR 99 to Everett. Now days, it joins I-5 in Marysville.

            Anyhow, the trees seemed so large suddenly. Time goes by. I wasn’t even 18 yet.

 

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            “Who has seen the wind?” Well, like the poem says I have seen what the wind reveals sometimes, and I have observed its passing that way.

* I had painted mine orange, with a paintbrush! Oy!

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