Drove along the coast last night to meet my running friends. I don’t mean to go on about my new Honda Fit, but sheesh! I can’t believe that such a relatively inexpensive little car handles and corners and rides like this. No, I have not been hired by Honda to say these things.
Probably partly due to 40 years of driving trucks, this is like dancing along the road. Spiffy. Plus my neighbor Chick, who has eclectic taste in music (previously turned me on to J.B.Hutto and the Hawks and gospel singer Dorothy Love Coats), gave me “Sinatra — ’57 In Concert,” and it made for a great cruise along the ocean.
About Lloyd Kahn
Lloyd Kahn started building his own home in the early '60s and went on to publish books showing homeowners how they could build their own homes with their own hands. He got his start in publishing by working as the shelter editor of the
Whole Earth Catalog with Stewart Brand in the late '60s. He has since authored six highly-graphic books on homemade building, all of which are interrelated. The books, "The Shelter Library Of Building Books," include
Shelter,
Shelter II (1978),
Home Work (2004),
Builders of the Pacific Coast (2008),
Tiny Homes (2012), and
Tiny Homes on the Move (2014). Lloyd operates from Northern California studio built of recycled lumber, set in the midst of a vegetable garden, and hooked into the world via five Mac computers. You can check out videos (one with over 450,000 views) on Lloyd by doing a search on YouTube:
Drove along the coast last night to meet my running friends. I don’t mean to go on about my new Honda Fit, but sheesh! I can’t believe that such a relatively inexpensive little car handles and corners and rides like this. No, I have not been hired by Honda to say these things.
A lot of the little cars on the market now seem to be really well made. I remember my first experiences of the original mini. Good fun, but no room (especially for a big bloke like me) and the thought of a collision in one was a horrible thought. I was wondering why I hadn't heard of the Fit over here, it turns out it is called a Jazz in our part of the world. I know a few people who have had one, they all seem well pleased with their choice.
I am just getting used to a smaller car again, I think with the addition of a tow bar and small trailer it should do a great many of rough and ready tasks my old estate used to do.
Good to know you are enjoying the pleasures of the road in a smaller & lighter way!