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Post by billhammond on Jul 15, 2023 14:08:50 GMT -5
You guys wouldn't like some of the roads I've driven in Arizona. It helps to be alert and sober. I've experienced many scary roads in my ski travels, but with a local at the wheel, which was reassuring. I'll never forget the shuttle driver who was taking us to the airport from Big Sky in Montana. Aboard was an ostentatious woman wearing a fur coat, high boots and way too much perfume. It was hard to imagine that she ever skied, but who knows. At one point the driver cued his mic to tell us that if we looked up high on the right side of the vehicle, we would see some mountain goats. The fur-clad woman, in what sounded like a Bronx accent to me, loudly asked, "How do they get them UP there?" "Well, ma'am, they live up there," was his bemused reply.
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Post by drlj on Jul 15, 2023 15:24:55 GMT -5
Saturday. Nice day. Time for a nap.
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Post by Hobson on Jul 15, 2023 15:56:15 GMT -5
On our most recent cruise, we ate one evening at the fancy Italian restaurant on board. It was the best meal of the cruise. We were served various breads and a roasted garlic head. There was a menu that looked like a wine list, but it had about 5 kinds of olive oil and about 7 kinds of balsamic vinegar. There were descriptions of each that read like wine notes.
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Post by PaulKay on Jul 15, 2023 15:56:50 GMT -5
No thanks, I have an aversion to mountain roads without guardrails. Yeah, it’s a wicked one. Lots of videos on Youtube people have taken going down it. A friend who used to be a long haul trucker went down it in a semi, he said it wasn’t a good experience. But, we’re going up, so not quite so bad. Just had the Outlander checked over, and the cooling system was flushed last year, so shouldn’t be a problem. Reminds me of the Apache Trail road in AZ. Unpaved, and no guardrails for much of it. One lane in spots.
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Post by Rob Hanesworth on Jul 15, 2023 17:18:53 GMT -5
We’ll then drive up what’s called the Freedom Road, an absolutely hairy hill built into the mountains, up to the Chilcotin plateau, then along another road I’ve never seen, highway 20. No thanks, I have an aversion to mountain roads without guardrails. Ecuador is full of those roads in the Andes and the bus drivers try to pass each other on them. You can only hang on and pray during the ride. Going around one curve Nancy and I looked down into the valley at an old wrecked bus just like the one we were on.
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Post by Village Idiot on Jul 15, 2023 19:10:19 GMT -5
I could not drive down a road like that. I can drive through Appalachia, but those roads go more between mountains not on the sides of them and when they do, trees block your view of the slope going down.
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Post by Marty on Jul 15, 2023 20:03:31 GMT -5
Nice cool, slightly breezy summer evening. Sitting with the boys on the front steps and I think everybody on the block lit up at once, smells like a Grateful Dead concert out there.
Cheri and Ayana made it to Bill's hours ago but as usual Kaiah and Zaria are running late. It's 8:00 and they won't get there until at least ten. While the roads won't be busy I don't like them driving unfamiliar areas in the dark on a Saturday night in North Drunkland.
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Post by Village Idiot on Jul 15, 2023 21:06:23 GMT -5
I had the most pleasant gig today. Only a handful of people, none of us really knew each other, but an afternoon of sitting outside on a sunny July afternoon in the shade, sipping wine, spending as much time chatting as making music we all left happy to have met each other. All of this, despite Paleo's efforts.
A good gig isn't about numbers of people, it's about helping to foster an atmosphere. The atmosphere was great today, I walked away feeling more relaxed and at ease than I have in quite a while. For that, it was a good day.
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Post by james on Jul 15, 2023 22:13:19 GMT -5
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