We started my two students off with the start-stall-start practice at Ohlone College this morning using the manual transmission Volkswagon. With a successful early training, at noon time I had them drive off on the freeway towards the coast. We took highway 9 up to Saratoga Gap, then switched student drivers. From here we continued on down to Boulder Creek before switching them again. Then it was up Alba Road, down Empire Grade, and into the hilly stop, stop, stop of the University of California at Santa Cruz campus, which was thankfully rather empty on the fourth of July. With this done, we headed on down the hill and into Santa Cruz, stopping next to the Surfing Museum. All of the passengers were thoroughly traumatized by this point, so we had a relaxing stroll among the crowds and I drove it home on highway 17. I would have to classify this as quite a successful day of training, given that it appears that we will live to see at least one more day.
Saturday, July 04, 2009
Safely to Santa Cruz ...
We started my two students off with the start-stall-start practice at Ohlone College this morning using the manual transmission Volkswagon. With a successful early training, at noon time I had them drive off on the freeway towards the coast. We took highway 9 up to Saratoga Gap, then switched student drivers. From here we continued on down to Boulder Creek before switching them again. Then it was up Alba Road, down Empire Grade, and into the hilly stop, stop, stop of the University of California at Santa Cruz campus, which was thankfully rather empty on the fourth of July. With this done, we headed on down the hill and into Santa Cruz, stopping next to the Surfing Museum. All of the passengers were thoroughly traumatized by this point, so we had a relaxing stroll among the crowds and I drove it home on highway 17. I would have to classify this as quite a successful day of training, given that it appears that we will live to see at least one more day.
We started my two students off with the start-stall-start practice at Ohlone College this morning using the manual transmission Volkswagon. With a successful early training, at noon time I had them drive off on the freeway towards the coast. We took highway 9 up to Saratoga Gap, then switched student drivers. From here we continued on down to Boulder Creek before switching them again. Then it was up Alba Road, down Empire Grade, and into the hilly stop, stop, stop of the University of California at Santa Cruz campus, which was thankfully rather empty on the fourth of July. With this done, we headed on down the hill and into Santa Cruz, stopping next to the Surfing Museum. All of the passengers were thoroughly traumatized by this point, so we had a relaxing stroll among the crowds and I drove it home on highway 17. I would have to classify this as quite a successful day of training, given that it appears that we will live to see at least one more day.
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"live to see at least one more day." That's important. ;)
Oh, I should mention that I refuse to drive a stick shift in San Francisco. ;)
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