i'll never forget the summer of 1990. i had just graduate from college, and i was looking forward to a well-deserved break before starting work in the fall. i wanted to travel around the country, but i didn't have enough money for plane fares and the trains were easy to handle so i decided on a different form of transportation i borrowed a friend's car,which was on strike, so it didn't take me long to get used to driving it. traveling across the country on my own was a spot experience. the only difficult i had on the trip was when i run out of gas in the desert. i could have picked a better G i can tell you. itwas a very long hot walk to the nearest gas station, which was ten miles away!