... thought-provoking, hilarious, quiet, intimate, get-to-know-you conversation with someone with whom I don't normally get to have thought-provoking, hilarious, quiet, intimate get-to-know-you conversations ... feeling safe and enclosed and peaceful on the road ... rockin' out ... driving at night and staring up at the dark sky and noticing how the road winds and turns, but the moon stays in the same place ... discovering there are people just like me ... understanding and being understood, and acknowledging the understanding ...