I took a slightly different route home today. It's one of my favorite "short cuts" that gets me off the freeway a few miles early and follows a ridge through part of San Diego to Poway. It's really not any shorter, and depending on lights, only adds five minutes or so, but is much better than rolling up I-15 yet again.
Well, today I'm rolling along ("Officer, I didn't know how fast I was going-every bike speedometer is inaccurate...) and I see the modern day station wagon in a left turn lane up ahead. I'm not really flying, and judging from the distance, I think she can turn out (yes, it was a Mom and kiddos) and easily clear the lane I'm in. She wouldn't have been "turning left in front of me" like you hear in too many accident reports, as it was an uncontrolled turn, and she could have safely turned before I got there. However, she sat in the turn lane patiently and waited for me to pass! Wow, quite the opposite of most cagers out here in California. I had to give her a wave and head nod as I zipped past.
This made my day, as it has been a brutal winter for wrecks. The last update I got from the local CMA chapter chaplain had 5 different motorcyclists he and others had visited in hospital in the last month and a half or so who had all been hit. And that's not counting a number of fatal or near-fatal accidents since the early fall, plus another friend/CMA chapter president who got hit recently. That one is almost funny, as he was sitting at a stop sign, and got hit by someone turning right. Yes, a right turning car overshot, and hit the front end and fairing of his Gold Wing!
So I am thankful for, and publicly thankful, for the safe SUV driver who saw me today and waited patiently and safely!
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