Peg, when I lived in Massachusetts I found a book called "Wild in the Streets: A Guide for Boston Drivers." If it's still in print, try to get a copy -- it's a gem! It includes a sequence of eight or so diagrams of a Brighton intersection, with each car labeled with a letter, showing what happens at different times during the light cycle, comlete with jumping the light for left turns, etc. The caption ends with, "Notice that car M has not moved through the entire sequence, because the driver was too timid to go."

I'm somewhere between Billy and Boston, both literally and figuratively. It takes about 5 hours to drive around this island. My commute is about 6 miles, mostly overlooking the ocean. Sometimes I see whales. There's a part of me that misses the excitement of starting a long car trip, but now I'm quite happy where I am and a 2-hour drive to Kona is enough of a trip for me. Last month I was in Oregon and drove about 500 miles in a week, mostly up and down I-5 between Portland and Eugene, and you can have it.

Aloha,
Mark