60-ish
Summer of love decade
What is 1960?
Laurie's nicknamesake
What are puddles?
What you do in front of the queen
What is bow?
Laurie spent her formative years sailing here
What is Pettipaug?
To travel by taking rides from passing cars
What is hitchhike?
The show 60 minutes airs on this network
What is CBS?
Indian, Atlantic, and Pacific are examples of
What are oceans?
Some would describe John Field as...what
What is stern?
Laurie graduated from this college
What is Manhattanville College?
Akin to sauté, you do this to veggies in a wok
What is stir-fry?
A rousing action movie starring Nicholas Cage
What is Gone in 60 seconds?
Michigan, Superior, and Erie are examples of
What are Great Lakes?
What happens to a sail when you sail far enough to windward that the sail is no longer completely filled with wind - because you want to sail faster.
What is luffing?
The nickname of Laurie's cat growing up
What is "copter-kitty"?
To get behind the wheel of a Chrysler you're thinking of buying & take it for a spin
What is test-drive?
Laurie's age in minutes (rounded to the nearest year)
What is 31,536,000?
A Sierran saline, soda lake
What is Mono lake?
Another word for a deserter, of sorts.
What is a bailer?
Laurie infamously ran into this and hit her head while walking on the street (more than once?)
What are parking meters?
To use a foot & a pedal to get a motorcycle going
What is kick-start?
60 is the sum of these 4 consecutive primes
What are 11 + 13 + 17 + 19 ?
Bodies of water that are navigable are called
What are waterways?
A watercraft whose name means "logs bound together"
What is a catamaran?
High school classmate of Laurie's who had a jingle of their name
Who is Lou Lang?
To windmill, headspin or elbox hop like a b-boy
What is breakdance?