Auto or Manual?

For the longest time, I've always wanted to drive a manual transmission vehicle, I'm not sure why I always wanted to, but something about shifting your own gears to me is very satisfying to say the least.  I've driven plenty of automatic cars, and it's not fun at all, there's no fun to it.  Yes, they are faster than a manual car, but I don't really race people at all in my manual car, I just love to sit back, listen to music with my windows rolled down half way and just drive without any worry in the world and no destination.  It's one of my favorite things to do to be completely honest.  Currently, I drive a 2006 Honda Civic 5 speed, it's currently on some coilovers at the moment, it's more for aesthetic reasons than it is for a track reason to be honest, but once in a while I will take my car up to the mountain roads and let her eat a little bit, it's actually one of the more responsive FWD cars that I've driven, I can't wait to drive more FWD cars but for now that's all that I've driven.  

Curious to see what you guys prefer, because I'm a big car enthusiast and would love to see if there are others on this Forum!  Let me know!  Automatic Transmission or Manual Trasnmission?