Today is…Go For a Ride Day
Today the focus is on the journey, not the destination. It’s a day for escape, for wandering, and for taking in the scenery. Celebrating all forms of transportation—cars, trucks, planes, trains, scooters, bikes, and everything in between—it’s a day to go for a ride! It appears the date was chosen because of its significance to the transportation industry. The variable-speed (interpole) motor was patented on the date in 1904 by Mathias Pfatischer, and the snowmobile was patented on the date in 1927 by Carl J E Eliason. Additionally, the Concorde began regular commercial flights on the date in 1977. Although these seem like good reasons for the holiday to take place today, being that it is also the anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy, who was shot while riding in an open-top car, it seems that a different date would have been better suited for such a holiday. Nonetheless, it is unknown who created Go For a Ride Day, and we shouldn’t let one abhorrent event in history keep us from celebrating the joy of going for a ride.
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