[GB SISSON]

Safe at Home! Quite the ride down interstate 5 on Friday. 65 was no problem with 3.70 gears and 33" tires. Driving in the middle lane with a semi on each side at 65 was somewhat unnerving. Got a liftime supply of thumbs up for sure. Arrived in Ballard for lunch with one daughter, then headed across the bridge to West Seattle where I'd be staying with other daughter. On Saturday, Gramps excused himself for an hour and went over to Alki Beach where car guys have been 'cruising Alki' for generations. It was like a 2 mile parade with anything from New Porsches, to rat rod model A's, to low riding Impalas and jacked up Hummers, but I had the only Foyota. Was over 80 degrees driving home yesterday and I decided I'm gonna need a door in the center of the firewall to block the heat, though it's great in the evenings and in the Fall. Climbing a long grade on the interstate I got a vision of blowing a coolant hose at 185 degrees and being doused with scalding coolant. Had to banish that thought. On the way home I went to a 'cars and coffee' in Edmonds. About 100 cars, primarily gleaming muscle cars, but a few things that appealed to me. Not a lot of interest in my junker. Few stopped to ask or talk. On the way home I bypassed the interstate and took a ferry to the S. End of Whidbey Island and drove my Northward miles in the country, albeit 55 mph, crossing Deception Pass bridge and coming out in Anacortes where we catch the ferry home to Orcas. That gray 2 story house with the brick chimney was my childhood home and the picture with the space needle is Alki Beach.