I do not know if it evolution or revolution that we all are experiencing! Being 62 years old, I remember a time when there was no such thing as wash & wear clothes (everything was either cotton or wool. The freezer in the refrigerator was the size of a two slice toaster (half of it was taken up with the ice cube trays). Television had only three channels, and everything was black & white. Houses and cars did not have air conditioning, there were no microwave ovens, and all stores were close on Sundays and Holidays. If you needed information you visited your local library. In the large cities we has mass transits, it was called Street Cars, and many families did not own an automobile. There were no portable radios, or calculators, and computers where so large that they filled a building, and either required a ticker tape spool or a lot of punch cards to program the computer for you number crunching (only big businesses and the government had them). Cars did not have GPS, all they had was a little compass to show which direction the front of the car was pointed. Cars did not have computers, and houses did not have computers. There was a time when you could work on your own car...those days are gone.

I am wondering if our advancements are tools for us as masters to use, or are our modern tools becoming the master's telling us what to do? Sometimes I just like driving down back roads, and not take the fastest way, getting off the highways and interstate freeways, to see the America that we rarely experience anymore.

In 2001 I drove from Minnesota to the Delaware Fish-In, on the Interstate, for my return home I took the Lincoln Highway. The difference in what you experience makes the forgotten byways more enjoyable.

What will it be next, all the fish are tagged with locater chips so you will know where the fish are, and how big the fish is? Where is the sport in that?

I prefer the road less taken, it holds more discoveries than the road more taken. I will continue to take the less traveled path in life, until my time is up, but I will have experienced places and events I otherwise would have missed out on. ~Parnelli