39 minutes ago, Margaret Pilgrim said:Am smiling at your being lullabied by the the purr of big rigs. We weren't so lucky when I would book us into conveniently located motels which were 50 yards from railroad tracks, bringing us hourly serenades from high speed rail traffic.
Ha! I lived for a short time next to a significant rail line intersection near Port of L.A. That horn tooting thing occasionally punctuated by the "shelter in place" siren from the PBF refinery. The Walmart parking thing - surprised nobody has done a coffee table photo book and history on it.