New Sunglasses, Contacts and Filter Cap Setup plus a brand new city!

I got my license in March 2015. All of my driving was done in Phoenix/Scottsdale. In June I was to start an IT internship at USAA in San Antonio and after waiting all these years to finally drive I wanted to drive myself to work each day.

As I was a new driver and we were still tinkering with the best filter setup, I really only drove in familiar areas and I had done very little night driving. Chase and I decided it would behest to arrive in Texas a week early so I could find good routes to the places I wanted to go and to practice them. I am so glad we did!

The signals are very different from what I am used to. Most have yellow around them instead of black and there is not much extra around the light itself. I am used to nice black rectangles boxes around the lights. Many also just dangle from wires. I don't think I would have been able to drive without the set up I discussed in my previous blog that allowed me to see red/yellow AND green lights! I have to be closer here in San Antonio before I see the red signal but with the scope I can check. If I see all black through the scope the light is red or yellow if I see the green, well, its green.

Another difference is that the roads are lighter in San Antonio making the lines less district something else I had to adjust to.

The frontage roads along the 10 are crazy! People fly across 3 lanes without looking. Even Chase didn't like the frontage roads. I found a good route form the apartment to USAA which avoided the frontage road completely. We mapped my routes in my nav on the Jeep as trips so we would force it to go the way that I wanted to go to each place. I have routes all set to USAA, shopping,the mall, the movie theater, nail salon and the gym. Being a new city and a new driver,I still do not just venture out places.

So, for the first time in my lifeI am driving myself to work! Still hard to believe!