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A DRIVE DOWN MEMORY LANE
At a Ford Model T driving course at the AACA transportation museum
in Hershey, Pennsylvania, Julian Furletti-Gilman drove cars over 100
years old – and he said it felt like learning to drive for the first time again.
Furletti-Gilman got to drive a pickup truck, convertible, furniture van and
passenger car, and each operated very differently from a modern vehicle.
There were no gas pedals, and the clutch pedal had to be held down to
the floor to keep the car in gear. In order to slow down, the driver primarily
relied on engine braking and only used the actual brake pedal at the last
moment. Only one pedal could be used at a time.
"I went to the museum on a whim, and when the course was mentioned
at the check-in desk, I thought, 'Let's do this,'" Furletti-Gilman, utility
designer, Utility Asset Management, Davey Resource Group, said. "My
favorite car to drive was the convertible because I was actually able to
fit in it comfortably -- the cars were pretty small. I would definitely
recommend the experience to anyone interested in cars."
Julian Furletti-Gilman gets ready to drive four old Ford Model T vehicles
at a driving course in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
SEQUOIAS MAKE FOR GREAT HIKING FUN
While on his trip to Sequoia National Park in California, Andy Grassia
learned online photos of those massive trees – some reaching the
height of a 26-story building – certainly did not do them justice. At
the park, Grassia went solo hiking and saw the General Sherman
Tree, the largest single-stem living tree on Earth that dates back
over 2,200 years. He walked under plenty of sequoias that were
hollow and had deep fire scars from intense wildfires that hit
the area in 2021, and he saw signs about the conservation and
preservation of these trees and what park rangers are doing to
mitigate any additional stress and soil erosion.
"I made sure to get to the National Park as early as I could to miss
all the crowds, so I was able to walk around almost completely
by myself," Grassia, sales arborist, Richmond office, Residential/
Commercial services, said. "The hiking was the best part – most of
the trails are paved to help minimize the amount of soil compaction
and erosion, so it wasn't a strenuous hike. I didn't break any world
records for speed, though, because there are massive Sequoias
everywhere you look. As much as you wanted to get a picture of
the whole tree, most of them were too big to get in a single photo!"
Andy Grassia stands
in front of the General
Sherman Tree, the
largest single-stem
living tree in the world,
during his hiking trip
to Sequoia National
Park in California.
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