Alfred Morris drove his 1991 Mazda back and forth to Boca - Washington Post
Having written like 73 blog items about Alfred Morris’s 1991 Mazda 626 , I nevertheless continue to be fascinated by Alfred Morris’s 1991 Mazda 626 . So a story about Morris taking a 34-hour round-trip winter drive to Florida in the 1991 Mazda... I drove from Ashburn all the way down to Boca Raton, which was like a 17-hour drive, and she made it like a champ. I hit a couple of ice spots in the road, so I was driving about 30, 40 miles per hour — just really slowed me down. Thanks, Mazda. The hosts then asked Morris why he doesn’t just upgrade to a higher-priced vehicle possibly more suited to driving back and forth to Florida in winter snow storms. This isn’t the first time Morris has fielded that precise question. I don’t like showing off. I like flying under the radar. I don’t like drawing extra attention to myself. My car still gets me from Point A to Point B, and that’s more than enough for me. Eventually, I will get a new car, but I’m in no rush to do that. “Like I said, a lot of guys still spend money on this and that. “So I’m just doing my best to save my money, but if I were to spend my money on anything, it’s movies,” Morris went on. “I love watching movies. This is my third time at trying [to start] a DVD collection, because every time I get DVDs something happens to them and I have to start all the way over from. Source: www.washingtonpost.com
