The '55 Ford in which we rode, Reyes told me, had been personally given to his father by Raúl Castro, in 1958, after his guerrillas had captured Cuba's second city and some fleeing Batista supporter had left it in the street.
We have stirred up the very storms into which we now ride".
The pick-up trucks in the backs of which we'd ride, warm wind in our hair.
The best we can do is construct arks within which we can ride it out, and by God's grace make it across the dark sea of time to a future when we do find dry land again, and can start the rebuilding, reseeding, and renewal of the earth".
When I referred to the front glass in the car in which we were riding as a windshield, she advised me that in England it was more properly called a windscreen.
The ferry on which we were riding, the Yogi Berra, stopped at one mixed-use conversion of the old industrial waterfront after another: the former Domino Sugar refinery, which "will be preserved, and turned into a mix of housing and commercial space"; the former Schaefer brewery has been redeveloped as housing, 40 percent of it "affordable".
I didn't feel that the things I had in mind, such as the pseudo-elegant heap of tin in which we were riding, had any very great value But life would be very different without them, and I wondered if he had thought of this.
The park was then -- this was the 40's and 50's -- an open expanse of green in which we walked and rode our bikes daily, clambered over the rocky embankments of the Bronx River, and in the goodness of time defended our virginity in all weathers and every season.
Sabrina nicknames the title float, on which we'll be riding, the metaphysical float, because it depicts a huge painted rainbow and globular sun.
