No, not for the sake of driving. Every once in awhile, I do just to get out the house and the neighborhood.
I’m 35 and once or twice a month I’ll head up into the hills - on my motorcycle. I haven’t got a car worth driving around in for recreation. If I did I don’t think I’d drive it just to drive it. I’d still have to be going someplace, though I might choose a different route.
We did it as a family in my youth, I did it with a friend years ago. I now do it once a year with same friend. Basically we drive and shoot the shit and renew old friendships.
Sort of. I do enjoy driving long distances but typically it isn’t 100% because of the driving. If I am traveling on business to a new town I might hop in the car in an evening and go exploring. I did that in Anchorage last time I was there, and it was awesome since the landscape is spectacular a short distance out of the city. The driving is fun, and technically I didn’t have a specific destination in mind, but seeing the landscape is as big a motivation as the driving.
I don’t really do this much from home.
Yup. I don’t do it anymore because I’m unemployed but a year ago when I had work I’d waste gallons just cruising around with my friends until two in the morning. I find being in a moving car relaxing (apparently it put me to sleep as an infant).
I do. 44 year old male.
I have a kit car which is basically a 1960 VW Beetle that has been converted to look like a 1929 Mercedes. It’s just a heck of a lot of fun to drive around on little two lane country roads around here. I don’t drive it as much as I like, partly because of the price of gas and partly because I’ve been doing work on it lately and it’s in pieces all over my garage.
This is the car, in case anyone is interested.
http://home.comcast.net/~sokosfamily/toy/toy.htm
Sometimes on the way home from work I’ll take the back country roads, and often I’ll go down a road I have never been down before just to see where it will go. I also often take the scenic way home just for the enjoyment of it instead of fighting the main road traffic.
This should really be in the Pit but I will keep it lashless. But seriously this is why we are in so much trouble with global warming/climate change/Middle East wars/obesity and diabetes- a bunch of educated and intelligent people are out driving around for the fun of it.
How about:
riding a bike
walking
running
skateboarding
instead?
“I used to do it more when gas was cheaper” Really pathetic though. I really wish the excrement would hit the fan soon so that the bringers of the problems would suffer their own wrath of destruction. (I’m not thinking “2012” destruction and do understand fully what global warming entails, but there are some serious land/water/resource problems ahead that voters and old people are continuing to ignore and actively encourage by their taking Recreational Drives.) Don’t get me started on lawn watering.
Well, I’m not having kids, so it doesn’t bother me.
I said no.
I’m 49.
I don’t dislike driving, mostly, but it seems that I generally have other things I’d rather do.
I don’t do it anymore, but this was a favorite pastime of my youth. Matter of fact, most young people I knew would go “riding around” on the weekend, stopping at other people’s houses just to see what was going on. Gas was 50 - 75 cents a gallon though. Get in the car in the morning and be gone all day.
As a young adult, sometimes as a family we’d go for a ‘ride in the country’ but not be gone all day.
I work from home and spend way too much time under the same roof. Every Friday afternoon, if I don’t have something scheduled, I’ll head out in the car for an aimless drive through the country, just to get out of the house. I just came back about an hour ago.
We used to do this every summer when I was a kid. We’d wind up way out in the country, and stop at farm stands where they sold fruit, veggies, frozen custard and honey.
For aimless wandering, I prefer to go by bike or by foot.
But my wife and I occasionally like to drive out to a park we’ve never been to and do our wandering there.
(age 36, writ by hand)
Yes, driving is my favorite activity and always has been since I started driving by myself at 14. I have a 70 mile round trip commute at work and I usually spend my lunch hour driving around as well because I love it so much. I got my new SUV on March 30th and I already put 13,000 miles on it. I really only like driving by myself though and I don’t like riding with other drivers very much.
What’s not to like? Music, scenery, women, excitement. An interstate highway is like an 80 mph nightclub.
If I get killed in a car accident, I would still like to come back as one of those dogs that gets to stick his head out the window of a pickup truck. If I had to pick a blue-collar career, it would be as a long-haul truck driver. I am working on my pilots license to get a different and faster perspective on things.
I have an extreme prejudice against non-car owners in general and those that can afford a nicer one but don’t as well.
If I’m in an unfamiliar town and happen to have a car with me, then I’ll absolutely do this. Just for the fun of exploration.
And while I wouldn’t normally get in the car just for the hell of it when I’m at home, if I’m already in the car, don’t have anywhere to be, and it’s a nice day out, I might drive aimlessly for a while rather than just going straight home. Sometimes, having my tunes cranked up with the windows rolled down on a sunny day can make for very pleasant driving.
ETA: I’m 35.
I don’t, but when I was little the family would go for Sunday drives and just drive around and look at things. I know people still do hid because they all end up in front of me when I’m trying to get somewhere.
I admit it. I love a Sunday drive. I like to take the windy back roads through the old farms and see the flowers and the colors. In fall it is dazzling with yellows reds and bright orange leaves.
On a motorcycle or scooter, yes. In an automobile, no. The actual fun of driving, while it is fun, is not nearly fun enough to me to make it an aim unto itself, any more than I’d take the subway for an hour.
When my cars are brand new to me (which has been almost 10 years since the last time that’s been the case) I do find excuses to make a run somewhere to buy something or to drive someone home, but when that mood seizes me I’m probably just as happy to sit in the parked car. (As like as not, it’s to fiddle with the stereo.)
Yes, 32/F/suburbs
I prefer to call it test driving. Two nights ago the headlamps shorted out, last week the bolts backed out of the rear end, locking the drive shaft. Almost lost a wheel in the mountains. Did lose a wheel on the interstate. I could make an endless list of break downs and near misses.
That’s why they call it a sportscar right? It takes about 20 minutes for the wind to blow all the thoughts out of my head, from then on it’s just pure joy. I drove country roads this morning for 2 1/2 hours and made it back in one piece. It’s a good day (glances at his list of stuff to do to the car, checks the weather).
47/Male