I carry a 6 foot tall steel safe to the beach using a front-end loader. I keep only my car keys and wallet inside the safe, but in the event of a sharknado, my entire family can fit inside. It makes for a bit of trouble packing for the beach, but the front-end loader and the safe both fit on my 20 foot trailer.

Best/only sub 5k sleeper I could find on ebay:

The most memorable time I caught air was during a test drive of an 90 (or so) Geo Storm TSI. The salesman took me on, what he assured me was a “bitchin’ route.” Being East Tennessee, the route is indeed bitchin’. Curves everywhere and hills abound.

Sure, if you are a minimalist. But I don’t understand the attraction myself. And the implicit statement that “if it is free it isn’t worth anything” is a bad message. There are many things I have acquired over the years that would not have purchased—televisions, stereo components, household electronics—that people…

One of the questions TSA has never seemed to enjoy addressing: whether any credible potential act of terrorism has been foiled by passenger checkpoints. In fact, if the system is only a few percent effective at stopping white-hat penetration attempts, and yet we have not had another 9/11 in nearly 15 years, perhaps…

The real solution is to treat TSA officers as skilled professionals, with pay and benefits, and job security and level of respect commensurate with the importance of the job. This would require a restructuring of the agency away from the business model and towards a Customs or law enforcement model.