Mind Game

OK -- you have a normal route you drive, be it to work or a friend's house or wherever. You've driven it a hundred times and know it like the back of your hand, right? Or do you?

Next time you're on that route, imagine an historical figure is in the passenger seat. Your choice. And explain to them what they are seeing in terms THEY will understand. Keep in mind their frame of reference. You won't have to explain a car to JFK, but for Ben Franklin you will. Lights, signs, actions -- anything that would not exist in their time must be described. You might be amazed at all the things on that route you've never really noticed before.

Then again, you could just crank up the tunes and veg out like normal. Whatever.