Also, Ford, I may only 10 years into ownership, but I know of a car that presents a good PR opportunity wink wink nudge nudge...

The video of her was so so sweet. I’m so glad Kathleen got this gift.

90º+ in Moab (or any other Western state, and no California is not Western) will dry you out in a jiffy. It feels like you end up carrying pretty much your entire body weight in water for an hour hike when it’s hot here because the humidity is so low. My water consumption literally quadruples on really hot summer days…

People are surprised when I show them pictures of snow from when I lived at the Grand Canyon, but it snows all winter there. Moab is much further north than that.

I always point that out when people say my car is huge. It just looks like that because it’s a box, but it is actually shorter and has a lower roof than a Civic.

Dude, I’m really sorry you think this way. You’re missing out on a whole lot, and it sounds like you’re determined to continue to.

I watched O Brother Where Art Thou probably 20 times when I was a teenager, I could quote the whole thing until recently. I love that movie. Their other movies are excellent, but O Brother doesn’t leave me with any sadness afterwards.

“thats’a... dozen hairnets”

Why is there tape over the fuel gauge?

Did I say that I own no worldy possessions and live under a tree branch? No. But I do think that getting away from an entirely man-made environment regularly provides a good reminder of where we come from. My next important meeting feels a whole lot less stressful after I’ve spent three days camping in the back…

“I live in New York City. I haven’t set foot on dirt or grass in probably two years.”

My Falcon has been my daily driver for 9 years, but recently I started commuting 50 miles a day and it has never run better. Part of it is because I have no choice but to fix problems or small obnoxious issues due to how much time I’m spending in the car, and the fact that I can’t just ride my bike instead. But also…

Any time a car company shows their vintage models next to the news ones in an ad it always just reinforces my opinion that the new ones look fat and bland.

My point is that nothing a previous owner does to a car is the current owners fault. The current owner can be taking exceptional care of the car but it will still have bad paint and dents from the previous owner. I think it’s cooler to save a car that was destined for the junk yard and to repair it back to mechanical…

Man, that’s impressively bad even by 60s standards.

Most old cars aren’t single owner cars though. My Falcon looks like trash cosmetically, because cosmetic stuff is A: really expensive, B: not critical to keeping the car running, and C: was ignored by previous owners. Mechanically though, it is well sorted out, not held together with duct-tape, and goes months between…

Buy some fluid film to keep the rust coated with. Just don’t let the rust get bigger, replacing metal gets exponentially harder the more needs to be replaced.

Why on Earth is longdx the person you’re trying to pick apart here? It makes sense to me that actively being the father of teenage girls would make this feel even more tangibly gross than normal. He’s not saying he’d think it was fine if he weren’t a dad... Jesus Christ.

We already had our first snow a couple of weeks ago. Fortunately for the fellas the weather is unusually nice right now though.

I had no idea Honda speedometers did that, but knowing now it makes me feel ill.