I am in awe of both your adventure and your accounting of it!  With a Trabbie even!

“Never interfere in a boy and girl fight.”
--William S. Burroughs, Words of Advice for Young People

One of my dream long-vacations is to start in Amsterdam and visit the furthest extents of the EU I can reach via train.

How did you get around?  Rental car?  Trains?

Those dune buggies were revolutionary. Did y’all come down from the mountains though Laurel Canyon to the beach? I heard from Neal Young that it’s a barrel of laughs.

Missing Nut Prompts Airlines To Inspect Every Boeing 737 Max

I guess the CVTs didn’t start until 2014, this one’s a 2008. I can’t remember what it cost to do a Japanese engine swap on our old H6 Bean but it wasn’t terrible.

Don’t tell the Herb.

Thinking about the differences between American and Euro towing, it makes sense that they’d derate it.

This just seems impossible. You’re supplying enough pressure to run a water rocket that exerts enough force to support a segment of firehose full of water, but you need the hose itself to be somewhat flexible under pressure and not too heavy.

Every once in a while I forget what FANTASTIC mileage modern cars get. Though I’m surprised the towing capacity is so low, that seems like exactly the kind of car Joop and Nene would use to tow their caravan to the nice campground outside Doetinchem for August.

Cool car, but THAT’S A PRIMO JUNKET. Now I’ve got a whole ‘nother region of Italy to visit some day.

True, they’ll show up several hours later and shrug their shoulders over a wide variety of crimes. If you’re lucky, they won’t even shoot your dog.

LAPD budget is $3.2B this year. That’s ~$150,000 per stolen car, assuming another 1,000 thefts this year. They’d be better off just handing out vouchers for replacements.

Up in Half Ass CityPortland, OR, there’s not enough jail capacity or Public Defenders, and not much motivation for cops to show up to testify even if everything else was in place.

Not sure how a movie plot would suss out, but an Iron Butt movie could be a thing.  Wonder if anyone’s optioned Melissa Holbrook Pierson’s book?

Many people are saying this: https://jalopnik.com/1851114609

“They Can’t All Be Winners” would be a brilliant title for that.

I assume this is at the Bunker Museum Terschilling - https://bunkersterschelling.nl/

Per Wikipedia: