Cars are capable of getting people from A to B. These are some personal pictures and context of the places I’ve been, seen and felt from the journeys I’ve been on. Everyone has their own life and the majority of the time, life is accompanied with driving and there is usually a specific attachment to certain cars and places due to the memories created with them and the people they share these memories with.
SIGHTS
Saddleworth Moors- I used to drive this way to uni, to avoid the motorway, this was taken 17th October at 8:30 amSaddleworth Moors- Taken 22nd October at 7:36 am, I was going to a Uni trip to Southport, so we had to be there earlier Just got onto the M62 from the A1- 25th April at 8:25 pm, in my boyfriends car, driving from his home in Doncaster to mine Utah, Orem- driving in my friends car from a shooting range to a really good burger place Every Saturday morning my boyfriend has football in Sheffield, we’re usually rushing, we don’t have time for breakfast so we buy JaffaCakes at a petrol station on the way , caught a rainbow on the journey.The mountains seen out the back of a car in Utah, ProvoOn the way to Uni again, I like the contrast between whats going on in front of me and whats going on behind me through my wing mirror, it shows two stories
DESTINATIONS
Cornwall, Newquay- it took us 6 hours to drive down, I napped most of the way, we stopped off at service stations quite a few times to give my boyfriend a break, we stayed for a week. The day of this picture we stayed at the beach all day Me and my friends drove to a beach near Liverpool to watch the sunset. It was a warm evening and we ended up swimming in the sea until it was dark, even though we didn’t bring swimming stuff or a spare change of clothes… we had to strip down to our underwear outside the car so we didn’t get the seats wet
DRIVE
LIFESTYLE
The drive to Leeds Festival 24th August. My brother in law drove, there was loads of traffic to get into the carpark. Once we dropped off our car it was a very long and hot walk to the stages. The day was amazing but so tiring, my boy gave me a piggy back ride all the way back to the car and I’d never been as happy to see the car again!En route Alton Towers- I love roller coasters, but I’d never been to Alton Towers so we went for the Halloween special. The queue of cars was all the way back onto the main roadAlways going on adventures with Joe’s car, Darling. She treated us very well and took us everywhere without any problems. In December 2018, she got crashed into at a junction because a range rover went through a red light, her passenger seat door creaked every time it was opened until she got fixed. Her breaks also like to squeak, but we let her off. She always smelt like cherries and had 2 baseball caps on her dashboard. We liked to clean her by hand at Tesco’s and we only ever put a pound in the water pump and try and do it as fast as we could, but we usually had to put another pound in… We always bought CDs of our favourite albums for her. Joe used to stash cookies and sweets in her and we’d get fat eating them all the time. Sometimes she liked getting into drag races with a Mercedes, she’s optimistic, but usually fails… before I passed my drivers test and got my own car I practised in Darling. She went over on her miles because we went everywhere in her. One time we got locked in IKEA car park for 3 hours Looking at the motorway in the middle of the night- I went on a midnight walk with Joe, this bridge in a place called Loversall overlooks the A1. This makes me think about how everyone in a car is going somewhere for some reason and how everyone has their own life and story We stuck the car in second gear and let the car drive itself down a private road. The road was extremely uneven, full of potholes, there was no point in trying to avoid them, there was no hope. Here is a selfie of us leaning out of the windows. Earlier we were laying on the bonnet and the roof of the car whilst the other drove.Summer. The day before this picture was taken, we had driven home from Norwich, hence the burnt nose, today we were going to Leeds to go and see Rita Ora in concertI love late night drives, sometimes not even going anywhere, just listening to good music and taking it easy. For me it’s one of the most relaxing things.
Lily 