[Dadhawk]

Ever had one of those moments where everything seemed to come together at just the right time to give you a great few minutes of driving?

That happened to me today.

Between my house on my in-laws' house there is a stretch of old back country road that was somehow missed when the area I live in transitioned from farmland to suburbia. You know the kind of road I mean, speed limit 45, but lots of 25MPH posted double and triple curves some with decent elevation changes, nearly no traffic and no houses or driveways.

It's only about 3 miles long, but I always go out of my way to use it anytime I'm transitioning through the area.

Today I was making the trip for a mundane reason not worth going into. It's a beautiful sunny day, light shining through the trees, and as usual just as I'm about to turn left off the main road to take this short cut (OK its not really shorter) the following happens:

I slap the 6AT into manual
I downshift into the Range
and, as if on queue, (and I'm not making this up) the random song playing on the iPod switches to the first few beats of Steppenwolf's "Born to be Wild".

For the next 3 miles, I'm running through the gears, taking curves at near twice their "posted" speed, light flashing through the trees. Just the road, the tire squeals, the music and me.

I was Ken Gushi filming those commercials. Yep, that was me.

The song ends just as I come to the stoplight at the end of the road and return to suburbia.

I think I'll go do it again. It almost makes it worth going to see the in-laws....