Damn good chance you hit the nail on the head. 

I think you missed my point. I’m not saying we need to give up cars, I’m simply saying that our current car culture is relatively recent and shouldn’t be considered untouchable gospel. 

Thanks! I’m not often a hero.

I don’t get why there’s such a drive to defend the right for everyone to drive everywhere all the time. The high rate of car ownership hasn’t been around since the inception of the USA, or other countries, and it wasn’t around for the majority of the 20th century either. Car ownership really kicked up in the early…

It always seems to come out of nowhere. I had a nasty skiing accident going down a steep slope in Jackson, WY. It was flat light out, so I wasn’t able to see, and something tugged my left ski off. I started to fall, but my right ski got stuck in a mogul and I crushed my ankle. That was ten years, over 100 pieces of…

The Feds collaborating with CA doesn’t necessitate elimination of the exemption. It just makes it easier on the Feds.

I think you are looking at this from the wrong direction.

Aw, I was just talking through accidents to show that the lack of injuries this woman sustained don’t mean that she faked the accident. I guess I could have spelled that out better. Hopefully my experiences don’t scare you off. I’ve also broken about 26 bones now, so I might not be the best barometer for safety in…

Agreed about critical mass being divisive. I’m not sure how I feel about electric scooters, skateboards, and bicycles in bike lanes, but I’m learning towards a solid no. They are incredibly fast, and not very nimble, and many of the riders don’t follow safe rules of the road. My main goal is to get away from them…

What a pointless effort. If Trump is actually “retaliating”, then he’s lost the battle because he is now following instead of leading. BTW, I’m all for him losing this battle.

You endoed and landed on your shoulder, and think the damage should be the same as a low side? The distance you fall is a huge determining factor in your injuries. When you endoed, you increased your height, and thus had a harder landing. She low sided. Damn glad she did too since she’s hardly wearing any gear.

OP, you just got “grouched” and “splained”!! I hope you learned your lesson. I’m not sure quite what that lesson should be, but it should obviously include other people creating stories out of thin air to explain your decisions. They don’t need any more info, they just need their “experience”. 

The 944S2 I bought is set up like this. Some cheapies on the back and decent Continentals up front. Got me in trouble in the wet one day on some windy roads and I looped it. I really need new tires.

Or, the shitty old things have already fallen down, and only the good old things remain. 

I think he was making fun of how “be best” sounds illiterate. 

That is horrible and so preventable!

I was waiting for a “retro encabulator” spin. Didn’t explicitly get one, but not ruling it out either.

I appreciate the fact that you analyzed the situation as opposed to responding with a gut reaction.

I’m apt to agree with you. His stories sounded more like getting lost and hacking a way through than actually driving on a proven route. That was all part of his radness!

This is such a worthwhile trip, and thanks for sharing your experiences. My grandfather bummed his way to CA on a train during the depression, worked for the CCC, and finally bought a Model T with one of his brothers who was also in CA. They drove that model T back to Indiana on Route 66. It was different back then.…