MaeLyn's Musings

What form of transportation did you have while growing up? In a nutshell, cars, bikes, and feet. When I was very young, I can vaguely remember some kind of blue car that was parked in the driveway - not in the garage. I don't remember driving in it at all; I just remember it being there.  The earliest family car that I can remember driving in was a brown station wagon. The back seat of that station wagon faced the rear of the car so we could see and wave at the people in the cars behind us. I remember some times when we wanted to leave to go on vacation early in the morning, my parents would put the seats down flat, and we would sleep in our sleeping bags in the car over night so we could get an early start and not have to wake up to go out to the car. (Those were the days before seat belts were required.) Eventually our family reached a size where we needed a van, and I think we had a series of blue or grey vans (Ford 12 passenger type) that all kind of blur together in my...

What form of transportation did you have while growing up? The earliest car I remember driving in was a brown station wagon, although I do vaguely recall an unused blue car (maybe a Chevy?) being parked in our driveway at some point in time in my early youth. I remember that the back seat of the station wagon faced backwards, and that I liked sitting there. The back seats in the car must have folded down, too, because I remember sleeping in the car the night before leaving on vacation, and it was all flat. Mom and Dad would get up early in the morning and we would be on the road before we kids ever really woke up. Of course, those were the days before laws requiring seat belts and car seats. Eventually our family grew to a size that required a van. I remember a couple of different blue vans in my teen years. We were a one car family for most of my childhood. Dad would ride his bike to work. My siblings and I would walk to school and back, and my mom had the car to do whatever erran...