I was living in PA last year, plenty of SUV's there as well. Not as many full size pickups, though. I'll grant you that.
Regards,
Jerry Moos Big Spring, TX
scapin-dmk@comcast.net wrote: Texas, right...nuf said.
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Don Keenan
Boulder, CO
303-530-4033
> Well, the bad part is that, whereas I was about the median age in the last such
\r?\n> survey, I'm now, at 56, several years over the median, both because the median
\r?\n> has dropped and due the the inexorable march of time.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> As to the boomer generation, you're more optimistic than I. Our generation
\r?\n> talks a good game on the environment, but most of us still drive a gas-guzzling
\r?\n> SUV two blocks to the convenience store and crank up the home/car air
\r?\n> conditioner/heater rather than open a window or dress appropriately. I'm afraid
\r?\n> most members of the generation of peace and love are now just as bought into
\r?\n> materialism and consumerism as any other generation. Our words deny it, but our
\r?\n> conduct confirms it. Even the cyclists among us tend to arrive at the start of
\r?\n> the ride with the bike atop a two-ton SUV.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Regards,
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Jerry Moos
\r?\n> Big Spring, TX
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Bianca Pratorius wrote:
\r?\n> I was rather happy to see that most list members are about my age (52)
\r?\n> or a tad younger. I was shocked to find out that there are no members
\r?\n> older than 75. I feel pretty healthy nowadays. What am I supposed to do
\r?\n> when I turn 76? Am I supposed to give up collecting and repairing
\r?\n> classic bikes and just drive my classic car up to Pebble beach and play
\r?\n> shuffleboard? With all humility, I believe the boomer generation will
\r?\n> continue to lead the world into ecological and geopolitical sanity up
\r?\n> to our last dying breath. I love the Beat generation that came right
\r?\n> before me, but few of them fell in love with tubes and lugs the way the
\r?\n> frisbee throwing, dope smoking, anti war rallying free lovers like me
\r?\n> did. Rest in peace Allen Ginsberg.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Garth Libre in Miami Fl.