California’s a great place for dirt bikers, too. Lots of OHV trails in the national forests and some pretty sizable dedicated OHV areas. Just make sure you have a good spark arrester.

Yeah, not all of California is LA or San Francisco. Traffic on California’s central coast is relatively light except around a few of the bigger towns, and even then only around rush hour. (Oh, and around Pismo Beach. I can’t explain the Pismo Beach Traffic Vortex.) And there are some lovely roads. The kinds of roads…

CA’s coastal fog is no joke either. I’ve had some really enjoyable drives up the Pacific Coast Highway near Big Sur. I’ve also had some terrifying ones in fog at night.

I remember driving through the Gorge in a VW Cabriolet. It was night, and raining, and incredibly windy. So windy the wind kept pulling the driver’s side window away from the seal and spitting raindrops down my neck!

I’ve driven a lot of great roads, but one that always comes to mind is SR-261 in Washington, from the SR-260 junction to the Snake River. It’s a classic winding-alignment road with miles and miles of flowing curves and not much traffic. I have gone out of my way on trips through eastern WA just to drive that road.

Border Patrol officers might well be on their side. It’s pretty clear the police in Ontario were.

I mean, traffic was stopped, so it’s not like they were risking causing an accident. Any bystanders would have been stopped in the tailback the convoy created.

I suspect the ECMs are different, and if you have limited production capacity you’re going to prioritize using the chips you have to make parts for the most popular and profitable version. I mean, if you have a cheese shortage and can only make so many pizzas, you’re probably going to make them with pepperoni, not…

It’s amazing, I know, but some people can care about more than one thing at a time.

IIRC the 747SP was also briefly considered a candidate for flights operating out of “hot and high” airports like Mexico city, but improvements in engine thrust made it more practical to get full-sized 747s off the ground there.

Apparently they needed the extra stabilizer area to make up for the shorter lever arm of the shortened fuselage.

Why should the counter protesters unilaterally stand down and let these idiots have a win? It’ll only embolden them to push harder next time.

They think they want a fight until they actually get one.

Bullies like this only understand violence and threats of violence. They see kindness as weakness. If we keep being nice to them we can expect more of the same, so I’m glad someone is finally messing their shit up.

I can’t be too sympathetic given that politicians on the side these guys are on have made it legal in some states to run over protesters who block traffic. If it’s legal to run over left-wing protesters it should be legal to throw stuff at right-wing protesters.

Wii Sports Resort was much better than the original Wii Sports.

Also the spinoff Pilot Wings Resort was one of my favorite 3DS games.

I was slightly disappointed when the car I bought from them got delivered instead of me picking it up from a machine. ;)

I’m in that category. I hate confrontation and I’m terrible at it, so I’d rather just overpay up front rather than being humiliated by some dudebro and *then* overpaying.

I had a good experience buying from them, but I got what was basically a “go away” offer for my old car. Since I’d planned to sell it myself instead of trading it in anyway, that didn’t bother me.

What if they want a Chery?