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From: Now in San Diego on 3 Jun 2010 20:06
On Jun 3, 2:16 am, ChelseaTractorMan <mr.c.trac...(a)hotmail.co.uk>
wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 10:11:48 +0100, ChelseaTractorMan
>
> <mr.c.trac...(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> >>Sorry, not attacking you and your life either. Just putting the
> >>devil's case.
>
> >understood.
>
> (feel free to carry on, I'm frustrated by my long term car hater
> elsewhere killfiling me because he didnt like the arguments
> (especially about his heavy use of air transport) its nice to get back
> on the old anti car scenario :-) )
> --
> Mike. .. .
> Gone beyond the ultimate driving machine.

I've been involved in the auto hobby for years. writer, restorer,
car=club officer. race crewman and so on for decades. BUT, I love to
walk - when I moved to Coventry, I spent many long evenings walking,
getting to know my new home.
If I need to go to a shop within a mile, I walk if the weather is
good. At the age of 70, on hilly streets, I walked six miles home from
the dentist.

Take you choice, dependig on weather and time available.

From: ChelseaTractorMan on 4 Jun 2010 04:17
On Thu, 3 Jun 2010 17:06:47 -0700 (PDT), Now in San Diego
<midlant(a)earthlink.net> wrote:

>I've been involved in the auto hobby for years. writer, restorer,
>car=club officer. race crewman and so on for decades. BUT, I love to
>walk - when I moved to Coventry, I spent many long evenings walking,
>getting to know my new home.

Yep, I love walking and driving too.
I recently read an article by Will Self in which he claimed driving to
go for a walk was incongruous. Why? Is taking a train to go for a walk
incongruous? The idea only makes sense if you start from the position
driving is evil. If a car is the best way to get to the start its
entirely logical.
--
Mike. .. .
Gone beyond the ultimate driving machine.
From: GT on 4 Jun 2010 06:09
"ChelseaTractorMan" <mr.c.tractor(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message
news:vgdh06l7f4crjj5fccconpvucnjev2qpvb(a)4ax.com...
> On Thu, 3 Jun 2010 17:06:47 -0700 (PDT), Now in San Diego
> <midlant(a)earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>>I've been involved in the auto hobby for years. writer, restorer,
>>car=club officer. race crewman and so on for decades. BUT, I love to
>>walk - when I moved to Coventry, I spent many long evenings walking,
>>getting to know my new home.
>
> Yep, I love walking and driving too.
> I recently read an article by Will Self in which he claimed driving to
> go for a walk was incongruous. Why? Is taking a train to go for a walk
> incongruous? The idea only makes sense if you start from the position
> driving is evil. If a car is the best way to get to the start its
> entirely logical.

Its a bit like driving to the gym - just walk there and then walk back. You
don't even need to pay membership then!!!


From: ChelseaTractorMan on 4 Jun 2010 06:23
On Fri, 4 Jun 2010 11:09:17 +0100, "GT" <a(a)b.c> wrote:

>Its a bit like driving to the gym - just walk there and then walk back. You
>don't even need to pay membership then!!!

in that case I would agree, *if* you are going to the gym to use a
walking machine. When you drive to a walk, its because you want to
walk somewhere different or more interesting and almost certainly on
footpaths rather than roads.
Self says he does all his walks starting from home (Central London). I
have done the same using canal and river banks and footpaths and got
as far as the source of the Thames, but I'm not going to do it all the
time and if I drive to (say) Beachy Head or the Lake District to walk
there, there's nothing illogical about it, any more than going by
train.
--
Mike. .. .
Gone beyond the ultimate driving machine.
From: Brimstone on 4 Jun 2010 06:53
"ChelseaTractorMan" <mr.c.tractor(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message
news:vgdh06l7f4crjj5fccconpvucnjev2qpvb(a)4ax.com...
> On Thu, 3 Jun 2010 17:06:47 -0700 (PDT), Now in San Diego
> <midlant(a)earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>>I've been involved in the auto hobby for years. writer, restorer,
>>car=club officer. race crewman and so on for decades. BUT, I love to
>>walk - when I moved to Coventry, I spent many long evenings walking,
>>getting to know my new home.
>
> Yep, I love walking and driving too.
> I recently read an article by Will Self in which he claimed driving to
> go for a walk was incongruous. Why? Is taking a train to go for a walk
> incongruous? The idea only makes sense if you start from the position
> driving is evil. If a car is the best way to get to the start its
> entirely logical.
> --
Indeed, there's no reason to not use a particular mode of transport to get
to the start of a walk/ride/drive etc. On many occasions I've used a car to
get to the start of a drive.


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