The journey during the test run along with our stays, brief and elaborate both, made us think and reflect on a lot of things, which we otherwise never do.
Driving between two destinations, distance is always absolute and thus more you move forward, more is the distance that gets covered. Yutika said that this is one of the best things about driving between two destinations is that more you do it, more it gets done unambiguously and you are bound to reach your destination and 'finish the task'. This is in contrast to a lot of other work that we do which seems to always increase the more we do it e.g. writing reports!
Anyway, while driving on a highway, default belief or hope with which I was driving was that I could keep overtaking. But as the navigator in the left seat said, there are times when one has no option but to just wait. It can be on the turns that are too blind to take a risk, or on a single lane highway where the view on either side of the leading vehicle doesn’t inspire overtaking confidence. And then you drive on, sometimes for a kilometer without overtaking. This reality of highways seemed to have much more meaning to it. Perhaps each one of you can make your own meanings. I think this also has something to do with the way one considers travel as an absolute or relative. So if the travel and distances are not absolute, no matter how much you travel, you won't reach the destination. Then overtaking might not be so much fun. It only gives a perspective to your journey as you can compare it with that of someone else's.
I am doing such intense highway driving for the first time in my life and thus other than the mindless thinking, I also got the most important lesson of highway driving-that truck drivers are the best drivers on the highways and you can trust them more than anyone else on the road. Yutika asked me to think of a truck as a moving wall on the highway. In the beginning I used to be dead scared to come near a truck but by the end of our test run, I am scared of cars more than anything and feel happy overtaking even between two moving walls.