Katrina Drives

Katrina has a friend that has been recently learning how to drive with her mom , so Katrina said she wanted to have a go at it too. I told her that was fine, as long as she learned to drive the pickup truck, since that is destined to be her first vehicle anyway. Of course, she wasn't too hot about learning to drive with a stick-shift transmission but an opportunity to drive, is an opportunity to drive. We decided to head over to a nearby high school and try her skills out on the Driver's Education practice track.

After driving over to the practice track, we performed a "Chinese Fire Drill" and swapped sides.

So, here we are, keeping it in first gear and tooling along, trying to keep the truck between the lines. No problem here.

As you can see, she's got the proper 10:00 & 2:00 hand positions and nerves of steel. Uhmm...maybe rubber...

I decided to see how she would handle the stress of parallel parking. As you can see, we need a little more practice. The right rear wheel jumped over the curb and she finally stopped backing up after the left rear tire went 'bump'.

All in all though, things went pretty well, she shifted up & down through the gears several times & has no problem getting into and out of first gear. I know she can't wait until our next practice session.