RW> Driving my girl-friend's little VW bug, I followed close on the bumper of
RW> an 18 wheeler doing 70mph in the fog on Highway 99 in the San Jauquin
RW> Valley. The draft was what I was looking for and we got quite a ways
RW> before coming up on a 18 wheeler who had crashed, which is where I had to
RW> drop back and then lost him in the fog. Ascending to the 'grapevine'
RW> heading toward L.A. took longer than the ride from Bakersfield. :o)
 
That took guts!  You realize now (or maybe you did at the time) what would
have happened if that truck had to make a sudden stop?  We actually had
some smog by the New Orleans airport (MSY) about 50 years ago.  That was my
one and only experience with smog.  Fog is bad enough and in this neck of
the woods it get so thick, you can't see anything.  Fortunately it is the
patchy-type fog and you exit one patch to enter another.  I'm glad I don't
have to drive in that stuff anymore.  What is the "grapevine?"
 
 
Regards,
 
Roger

... Sumo wrestling in the canoe of life.
--- D'Bridge 3.26