I honestly don't understand a common mindset about the supposed, sacred importance of online privacy which some people have. Most of my peers (read: folks over 40 years old) have a weird fascination in believing they must work to maintain secrecy about private information. Well, all right; I'm certainly not about to blog my credit card number or, in fact, any other information that I wouldn't divulge at any social event. But hey, I certainly don't mind that things about me are publicly recorded and archived. In fact, it's actually quite hard to come up with something that anyone wants to read or look at. I think this matter of not being exposed on the Net is a generational thing. People entering the workforce nowadays have actually grown up with the Internet, so these are not concerns which they share.
I don't even know the full extent of all my digital debris. I accidentally came across this photo among my own online junk. I had been wondering whether I could pull together various photos of the cars I've owned. I'd completely forgotten about the car above, much less that a picture was already online. The K-car station wagon replaced a previous one.
This was the second car driven from New Hamsphire to Seattle. After finishing work in Taif, Saudi Arabia, I went home. My father and I crossed the country in this one in October of 1987. We did a little sightseeing which is why the photo was shot at Mt. Rainier. I was anticipating working in the States, but ended up running back to another Saudi teaching job in January of 1988. I sold the car to friend, Joel, I believe. It smelled awful inside because I used to smoke cigarettes.