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What's Your Best Summer Road Trip Vehicle?
none ^ | July 26, 2013 | FReepers

Posted on 07/26/2013 4:30:32 PM PDT by Daffynition

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To: Daffynition

Yes she had a TV show. If I remember right she was not young at the time but had aged very well.


121 posted on 07/26/2013 9:05:23 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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To: Daffynition

Well it’s pointed the wrong way like the other poster said, but I’ve seen some tranverse motors that were pretty easy to work on. What did Lee Iococca say about it?


122 posted on 07/26/2013 9:06:14 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Daffynition

25 miles straight line including the paddle around the San Pedro and through Angels Gate to Two Harbors. Took about 8 hours over, but only 4 coming back with the current, waves, and wind.

No death wish. I trained for over a year to make that trip and it was a carefully planed and calculated risk.

Ed Gillette paddled from Monterey to Hawaii. His stories are a lot more interesting than mine. I didn’t have to eat my tooth paste.


123 posted on 07/26/2013 9:09:42 PM PDT by TArcher ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS, governments are instituted among men" -- Does that still work?)
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To: TsonicTsunami08

We should start a new thread about *A Car from My Youth That I Should Have Kept*...and that 6-pack is a Keeper with a capital K!


124 posted on 07/26/2013 9:23:55 PM PDT by Daffynition (Stand Your Ground)
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To: Yardstick

It’s a popular belief that Iaccoca saved Chrysler from bankruptcy with the K-cars.

“If you find a better car, buy it.”

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1894731_1894734_1894718,00.html


125 posted on 07/26/2013 9:27:43 PM PDT by Daffynition (Stand Your Ground)
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To: Daffynition

26 miles, across the sea

santa catalina is waiting for me

the island of romance, romance


126 posted on 07/26/2013 9:34:31 PM PDT by truth_seeker
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To: TArcher

You have my deepest admiration. I shy away from big white water when paddling.

I understand about training for an athletic goal .... trained for two, to climb Mt. Washington and the Presidentials. One thing it’s difficult to train for, is the weather.

I like this vid of the trek:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cTjZzZOv3k


127 posted on 07/26/2013 9:40:54 PM PDT by Daffynition (Stand Your Ground)
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To: Daffynition
El Caminito del Rey (The King's Little Pathway): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1Nd1qtk1Go
128 posted on 07/26/2013 9:45:51 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: truth_seeker
All that *romance* came aboard a fast cat boat. No fuss no muss. To wit, cautionary that I am, followed the adventures of Steve Fossett vicariously


129 posted on 07/26/2013 9:49:03 PM PDT by Daffynition (Stand Your Ground)
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To: cynwoody
Oh sure!

Is stayed in a Holiday Inn last night.


130 posted on 07/26/2013 9:54:47 PM PDT by Daffynition (Stand Your Ground)
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To: Daffynition

>>One thing it’s difficult to train for, is the weather.

Heh, lightening above the tree line can be very exciting.

“I wonder what happens now”
—Ed Gillette regarding what it was like to be submerged by breaking waves generated by tropical storms whilst paddling to Hawaii.

I studied and watched the weather patterns carefully. No storms or fog to obscure visibility of/to the ships that clog the channel. The shipping traffic was the biggest danger. I tooted with my canned air horn and they honked back that they saw me, and all was well.


131 posted on 07/26/2013 10:05:33 PM PDT by TArcher ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS, governments are instituted among men" -- Does that still work?)
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To: Daffynition

Yosemite?

Zion?


132 posted on 07/26/2013 10:19:05 PM PDT by truth_seeker
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To: Daffynition
Hands down ... the MB Sprinter Van. Capable of 27 mpg in diesel... last for 500k+ if you don't mind changing the oil every 5k.

I was Blessed to be able to put my life into my '05 'ManCave' last Dec ... driving down to the Lower 48 where I now wander about ... pestering my friends.

Ultimately I'll tire of the road and find myself a cabin and a barn ... probably somewhere around 'Small-Town TX.

Will share a few pics once I get that all figured out again.

133 posted on 07/26/2013 10:20:22 PM PDT by CIBvet (So how's all this FAST TRACKED - FREE TRADE workin' out for ya so far, Comrade Job-Seekers ?)
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To: Daffynition
>>You have my deepest admiration.

Thanks



FRiend.
134 posted on 07/26/2013 10:26:38 PM PDT by TArcher ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS, governments are instituted among men" -- Does that still work?)
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To: truth_seeker

Pix by Gordon Wiltsie

Portaledge Climbing...on Great Sail Peak in Canada.

http://www.news.com.au/travel/holiday-ideas/gordon-wiltsies-stunning-images-of-1200m-portaledges/story-e6frfqer-1226068491746


135 posted on 07/26/2013 11:02:57 PM PDT by Daffynition (Stand Your Ground)
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To: CIBvet
Oh sure....tell us you are *roughing it*. ;)


136 posted on 07/26/2013 11:05:50 PM PDT by Daffynition (Stand Your Ground)
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137 posted on 07/26/2013 11:13:05 PM PDT by Daffynition (Life's short- paddle hard!)
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To: Daffynition
LOL!

OK, then, it still is lacking one cylinder head (and four cylinders).

Real cars smoke the rear wheels.

138 posted on 07/26/2013 11:56:39 PM PDT by rmh47 (Go Kats! - Got eight? NRA Life Member])
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To: Daffynition
2003 Harley Davidson FLHRCI
139 posted on 07/27/2013 5:12:10 AM PDT by SkiKnee
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To: rmh47
You are absolutely right! I've owned lawn tractors with more hp.

Yet a *smug-factor* kicks in when I'm sitting in traffic next to a car that is costing the owner $375.+ in monthly payments...huge repair fees and costs of high-test fuel.

Sure it has AWD, a NAV system, CD player. *Ronnie Raygun* Smugness: No payments, my property taxes went from $500./year to $37....insurance cut 75%....I'll never have to visit an emissions inspection station again....instead of a $98. fill-up at the pump, it's $30. tops. So what if a bicycle passes me on a hill ....I'm happy, comfortable and even camp.

Go ahead and tease me...I can take it. They criticized *Reaganomics* ....'tis my version thereof.....furthermore....*Facts are stupid things.* ;D


140 posted on 07/27/2013 5:16:25 AM PDT by Daffynition (Life's short- paddle hard!)
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