Jacquie wrote:

> Jan, I don't know if I could watch my oldest Son drive that
> distance. I remember when he was 16 and my husband and I were driving
> to the Mall and I glanced in the mirror and saw this old pick up,
> pass cars in and out of traffic...I about had a heart attack when I
> saw it was my son...I told him from then on he wasn't allowed to
> drive on the same roads we were...if we were going out we would tell
> him where...because I don't think I could live through watching my
> son get into a wreck and that was what would happen if he kept on
> driving like he did...he must have listened because he never had an
> accident after that incidence...LOL.

Well, the alternative was him driving by himself on a different day and me
freaking for 12 hours or so until I knew he was safe I told him I had the
navigator and it warned of fixed radars and that he should drive behind me
and slow when I did and speed up when I did In actual fact, a few times I
drifted up to the speed limit (110k) and when I checked myself realised he
had stuck to his 90k limit. It was a public holiday and the roads were
actually very quiet and I also noticed that most people were content to stay
behind us doing the 90 instead of taking advantage of the full speed limit.
We only saw one idiot, who passed my son on double lines and was trying to
pass me as well, in a car that wasn't going to be able to pull the skin off
a rice pudding. I slowed and went closer to the shoulder and he still
couldn't pass me. When we saw him on a head on collision course I sped up so
he could fit in behind me. Other than that (and the weather conditions) it
was a fairly good run