Yep, my boys have those first times as good memories, and they have followed suit with their sons. Theirs was not on tractors, though it was in a 4 x 4 pickup out on some roads in the desert. My grandsons were not quite so fortunate, though; they got their learning in a car with an automatic on deserted parking lots on weekends. All the same, it is normally a great thrill for most boys and girls when they start learning to drive. In August, my sixteen yr old grandson will be returning from a family trip to New York and environs ahead of the rest of the family. They drive to Las Vegas and leave their dogs with us and fly out to wherever they are headed, so he will be coming back early, and he and I will go to their place in SoCal so he can start football; I'll stay with him until the rest of them get back. Since he has been driving for a while now, I'm figuring I'll turn things over to him after we get out of town, and let him get some real highway miles under his belt. I won't let him drive in heavy traffic, though, it moves too fast for someone with so little experience.