After the conference closed, I packed up and chose to take Highway 24 back to Stockton. I veered off the highway at Ignacio Valley Road, a road I used to take in the 1970s to Lafayette and Berkeley from Stockton, where I was attending the University of the Pacific. Immediately I noticed how slow (as opposed to how fast) the road was now that the community had built up. I kept thinking my next turn would be on Marsh Creek Road, but at Clayton, memory corrected me.
Built up or not, driving the route was a powerful "then and now" experience. In terms of critical thinking, I was updating my "database." I "knew" the route, but I was relearning my learning, very important for our generalized understandings about most things. I must constantly hit "refresh." I think, too, that thinking about my thinking kept me from negatively viewing the route because it had changed. Noting the change and bringing myself up to date was more interesting.
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