Right after work, we packed the car and headed west, destination, Cartersville, GA. We started with the top down. Kept it down, but put the windblocker on for Donna’s Interstate drive as it was starting to cool off. When I picked up the driving again about 60 miles outside of Atlanta we put the top up as it looked like we were coming to rain. Of course it started to rain at dark, at about the time I started to navigate the dreaded I-285 loop around the big city. On Atlanta’s beltway there are at minimum 5 lanes of road in each direction and at 9:00 PM on a Thursday night they all are quite busy.
I was traveling in the middle lane at around 70 to keep all my options open and ahead I noticed the back of a Miata with one tail light out, first one we had seen in the first 150 miles of our journey. As we got closer Donna said, “Hey, there is a Miata.” About that time I noticed in my left rearview mirror the distinct light signature of a set of barndoors approaching in the lane to the left of me. Almost at the same time as I pulled along side of the one-tailighted Miata, the other one pulled along side of us. I tooted the air horns and got a beep-beep from my right. As the three of us rolled down the road in a modified echelon for a moment we passed a 4th Miata in the extreme right lane. The Blue Angels had nothing on us, too bad it wasn’t a bright sunny day so we could have acknowledged what was happening and drove like that for a while longer.
We arrived at our hotel and base of operations for the next two nights at around 9:30 after 230 miles (and no other Miata sightings.) A brief storm had just passed through the area knocking out the hotel’s cable, but we didn’t care we were tired and just went to bed.
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