Re: Packard Trips

Posted by DavidPackard On 2020/5/24 19:20:08

This Sunday I headed out much later than Ernie . . . I would never be able to get-up that early. I took the '54 Cavalier with a goal or recording some video at Saguaro Lake, which was formed by damming the Salt River. The experience didn't turnout as I expected, in that, there was somewhat of a traffic jam at the entrance to the facility. Seems that on Memorial Day weekend there are hundreds of folks wanting to play in the water all at once. What was I thinking? I did a U-turn as soon as I could and drove back home. Much of the trip was on the Arizona State Route 87, and the Bush Highway, named after local resident Harvey Grandville Bush, not a political family.

Today was a 40 mile high cruising speed day. '54 ran quite well, rolling along like a locomotive. The car is equipped with an air conditioner ( non-Packard ), but the temperature was only in the mid-eighties so I drove with the 260 (two windows down, 60 mph) air conditioner on high. Humidity still a concept. When I first moved to Phoenix I noted that if the temperature in Phoenix is 100F that would feel about the same as 80F back in Connecticut . . . it's all in the humidity . . . some have it, while others don't.