Night Driving

Going home after a par­ty in my Civic Coupe.

I love dri­ving at night when the roads are calm, and the pat­terns of the street lamps pul­sate in your vision.

4 comments

  1. Yes, dri­ving at night- some of my very best mem­o­ries. Or maybe in the morn­ing, when the sky is light/dark, and play­ing Dream Theatre on the radio!

  2. Holy shit, you lis­ten to Dream Theater?! It’s not every day you run into a DT fan. I find their songs are good for night and day dri­ving.

    p.s. Dream Theater uses the Americanized spelling of “the­atre”. You must be like me: from a Commonwealth coun­try which uses British English.

  3. I dear­ly miss com­ing back through the tun­nel in SF going toward Oakland at 3AM… I’d be tak­ing off bits of sil­ver jew­el­ry all the way home, music roar­ing out the win­dows, feet thrashed and wait­ing to take off my tall scary danc­ing boots. Watching street lamps, then city tow­er lights fly­ing by, then the piers, dark water seething under­neath, then tun­nel-tiles glint­ing and mak­ing pat­terns in a yel­low neon tube where your tires sing a dif­fer­ent hum, and then out into the dark through the struts of the Bay Bridge, first the lit part, then the dark­er part, and off into the maze of high­way. The sat­is­fac­tion of the dark.

  4. One thing Ottawa is miss­ing is some decent tun­nel dri­ving. If you look at music videos like Rabbit In Your Headlights, there’s some­thing mys­te­ri­ous about that smooth and straight archi­tec­ture, and the lack of sky above you.

    I’m filled with envy.

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