This past week we drove from Michigan, through Canada, to New York state by Fort Drum. My daughter, in the Army band, just returned from Afghanistan and is now back with her husband and 2 year old son. And that drive is 16 hours in a car, one way.

We drove to my son's, 7 hours away and he drove us from there. I was wearing a black Survival from Utilikilts and was never more comfortable the whole time. I was in the back seat when my son drove and he keeps his car a bit cooler than I like it, and I was warm the whole time. Also, after the ride back home, I checked my pleats and was amazed to find not a wrinkle in them!

A few comments from here and there. In Canada I got a few odd looks at the service centres (rest stops), but then my wife and son just had on tee shirts and no jacket, and some of the people we saw were in parkas, hats, gloves, etc, since it was cold and windy. But driving is more comfortable without jackets.

I also had on my X Marks tee shirt and one lady said to me, "I like your shirt!" I thought, I ran it through my head again, and it was shirt, and not skirt.

At one point I almost got mixed up going into the bathroom. At one gas station they only had a unisex bathroom, and so the sign on the door had the "man" outline along with the "woman" outline which looks like a guy in a kilt outline. So then the next few bathrooms we stopped at, were men's and women's, but seeing the "kilted" picture, made me think that was where I should enter. Actually it was the women's and I realized it, but still had to think about it. haha

Otherwise the only other comment was when my son and I were at the urinals, and two other guys were there at the same time. One guy said to the other, "Look, he's got a skirt!" That was when I was lifting the front of the kilt, and then that same guy said, "But look how easy that is!" OK, TMI, but I had to tell the story.

DALE.