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Fahrvergnügen

I have been converted by manual transmission. I recently learned to drive Manual in our Convertible Cabrio and I have been consumed with Fahrvergnügen. I realized this I think when I drove the 8 hour trip home from SoCal to NoCal and was sad to have to stop driving. Taking Hansel (that’s his name, hansel) a couple of days this week has driven (pun unintended) this home to me: I love driving.

Now I have _never_ loved driving before, always saw it as a chore or a bother. I love it now, but only in manual transmission. I drive my Automatic Toyota and it is back to the drudgery. All I looked forward to in driving was a nice enclosed space to blast my music.

Now I have a soundtrack to a driving experience!

Farhvergnügen. I sound like a frikken commercial.

So Thanks to for teaching me, thanks to my friend Rob for teaching me further about taking corners, the power curve, shifting techniques, mountain driving, etc…

Who’s up for a road trip? Hansel is.

7 Replies to “Fahrvergnügen”

  1. *Giggles*

    I’m not sure what’s more amusing: the image of you driving a car with a name that reminds me of a blond blue-eyed u\”bertwinkie or your use of the word Fahrvergnu\”gen.

    Don’t mention road trips… please. 😉

  2. Well, should one show up, he’s at least welcome to the passenger seat

    I’ll promise not to flaunt any extreme fun during your intense work/study. LJ cut if necessary. Remember, this too shall pass.

    What will you do with all your future free time? 🙂

  4. You asked 🙂 I have been thinking of taking 3-4 weeks off and driving through the US & Canada.

  5. my friends gave me shit endlessly about buying an automatic transmission BMW, their logic being that a sports car should always have a manual. They, however, did not have to drive in Chicago or Milwaukee traffic.

    And I don’t know how to drive a manual 🙂 I like those cabrio’s. They’re so cute, and I want a convertible so bad!

  6. i love driving manual, even though i haven’t for years — curse the car industry for bowing to the laziness of the driving public and producing mostly automatic transmissions…

    i love those cabrios, too! i wanna see Hansel when i’m in the Bay Area in August. =)

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