Eyes on the road

Driving, driving, driving. When Chris Weston, managing editor of The Greenville (S.C.) News, said that driving is the most dangerous thing we’ll do everyday, I realized how right he was. I hadn’t driven for almost seven years when I moved from New York to Seattle for my internship last Summer. I was extra cautious when I first moved, but now I’ve gotten a bit too comfortable. I’ve had a few close calls on the road recently. Coming back from assignments, I was thinking about the story and not paying attention to the road. It also doesn’t help that I live in an amazingly beautiful place and sometimes get distracted by the mountains and ocean. Having Weston remind me about being safe on the road is something that I will take with me when I get back to Port Angeles.

-- Vanessa Renee Casavant, City University of New York-Hunter College, Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, Wash.