I was travelling back in time to the late 1970’s, when my then boyfriend and I, just barely 20 something, thought nothing of hopping in the car and driving to Indianapolis or Florida for an NHRA event. We just went. As did many of our hot rod friends.
I watched a video from a 1975 Indianapolis meet and besides making me nostalgic, I saw that my life was much simpler then, much, freer. You could just go. Hop in your car and head to the States. If they didn’t like you at the border, they simply turned you back.
Even in the 1980’s things were not so complicated. I filled out forms and paid money and I was enrolled in University. I showed up at a workplace, had a fifteen minute interview and was hired.
Movement was a lot freer. Perhaps it is just my rose coloured glasses again, but I think it was true.
Todays world is so terrifying. It was not so scary back in the 1970’s, at least, not for me.
In fact, it is only since trump came into power and the pandemic that life has dramatically changed and become so restrictive.
Well, at least I can remember when. With videos.