[vaudine]

We lived in Dallas and San Antonio when first married--a mere 56 yrs. ago. SA was like a big overgrown cowtown; now it has millions of people and freeways stacked 6 high. Dallas was pretty full of traffic even then, but you could tell a separation between Dallas/Ft. Worth. Now it just spreads out into one big sprawl. Waxahachie was 30 miles away from Dallas when I was at boarding school there-51-52. Now it is a suburb.

I liked both Dallas and SA at the time. Now, I would hate the traffic.

vaudine

[Melas]

The traffic is what I hate most about living here. Which is one of the many reasons I’d like to pack up and move to NYC. I’d love to sell the cars, and do without them. One of the lessons I’ve learned on my visits to NYC, is that my car payments would pay for all the taxi fares and subway tokens I could ever use, and still have money left over. I’ve really enjoyed my post-Guilliani subway trips. I know he’s close to a dirty word on FR, but he did wonderful things for NYC.