We left Washington early one morning after having packed up the Subaru, including a car-top carrier that we got for the move. If memory serves, we drove out to the Beltway then up to I-270 toward I-70. Then it was onward to our first destination: Champaign, Illinois. Ken went to grad school at U of I Champaign and had friends in the area.
Yes, that's my faithful 1982 Subaru hatchback. I bought it, used, in DC (I still remember the name of the woman who sold it to me) and it served me well through the mid-1980s on multiple trips to upstate New York and my home town. Now it was taking us to San Francisco! I remember replacing the in-dash radio with a new radio/cassette player and speakers (in the back). I did the install myself, in the street in front of our apartment. I wouldn't know how to start doing that these days. Although you probably can't buy a car now without internet and digital music software built in. LOL
We had a Subaru Forester in the late ’90s. Arrived in DC in it in ’98. You were always a bit ahead of us... more advanced. I was just thinking of the things I hire people to do now because I don’t know where to begin when I did most of them myself years back.
ReplyDeleteThat's a very nice car for a long road trip. Cars have changed a lot since then. Lewis was good at installing electronics. He put something in our cars that let us use an ipod when they first came out.
ReplyDeleteI wish that I had a CD player in my current (2020) car.
ReplyDeleteI loved those little hatchback designs.
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