Those Uber/Lyfts are hard to come by in my experience on Maui unless you’re in Lahaina. Kihei you have to wait for someone to decide it’s worth it to drive down from Kahalui. Maalea, forget it. I stopped going to Maui because of the insane car rental prices in normal times ($120 a day for a Mazda 3. Seriously?). At…

I wouldn’t want to be the DA that signed off on the police going over to talk to a defendant who is presumably represented by counsel having been previously arrested. Maybe the police did it on their own. 

Clearance compared to other ADV bikes? Looks kinda inadequate to me.

Panama is the Montana of the boat world. 

I think CruzeHatch is right. I don’t see the gain. Was he selling the photos of swans to National Geographic Magazine’s website? There’s a whole line of Federal legal cases interpreting 5 CFR 2635.702 that would hold no gain unless he made some money. (China may be different YMMV)

Stalin (good one). In the 1970s Boulder, Colorado closed off downtown Pearl Street to make it pedestrian only. The backlash accused the city council of being communists. Today they’ve extended Pearl Street’s pedestrian zone and it is thriving. Although I imagine those infernal app-based scooters are probably strewn…

The developers are all in on it too out here in Antivaxxistan. Build the roads and the breeder boxes will pop up like mushrooms. 

I’m in for $500 if he’ll stop and take the FC to the junkyard. I once found him a rust-free FC in the desert and he thought there were too many problems. It did not have an engine, a rear box or a title. All of those things were fixable compared to this apparition. 

Comes in handy in the mountains especially in spring. Sometimes you just need to get past a snow drift or two. A winch is also helpful to drag downed trees off the road or at least enough to the side so you can get by. 

Oregon will be next to ban ICE cars. Then what? Do they make an attendant stand by the charger port while you’re charging?

Yemen, where everyone is armed to the teeth, has a homicide rate of 6.66 per 100,000 people. Mexico is 19.26. USA is 5.35. El Salvador is the murder capitol of the world at 82.84.

This is pretty conventional. If he wanted to go out in style he would have made an Ex-MOD Airportable hearse, flown it up in the air and let it drop out of the C-130 with a timer and plastique that made it explode in flames over the North Sea. That’s how I want to go. Viking funeral on steroids. 

A friend leases a Jeep Cherokee Trailhawk with a July end date for the lease. Last week the dealer told him to come in and chat. They were so desperate for used cars to sell they terminated his lease, paid the balance and put him in a new Trailhawk for $20 more a month. (Although there was a $2000 payment required.…

Fuck Oregon. Last time I let some tweeker pump my gas there he broke my filler neck anchor (how I have no clue). I now stop before crossing into that vile state and fill up. I even carry a 5 gallon can to be sure. The less times I have to fill up there the better.

There’s a road south of Hobart that looks like a wallaby version of Jonestown in Guyana there’s so many bodies. I’ve seen roo steaks for sale in groceries out in places like Wagga Wagga. 

Las Vegas and New Orleans have got to be two of the most unpleasant summer climates around. I know the games are indoors and all, but just walking across the street in Vegas that time of year can evaporate your body’s entire water supply. Couldn’t they have put it in Denver or something? I’ll still take the flying Sout…

ND. Here’s two in the southern rust-free zone of the Idaho desert*, one even runs and at the same price. I’d take my chances elsewhere if my name was Tony and I had a fixation revolving around wrenching. https://boise.craigslist.org/cto/d/caldwell-lots-of-cars/7303092956.html

Auto wave generator?

COTD

I once saw a stock Isuzu Rodeo three quarters of the way around the White Rim Trail. It had conquered the Hogback. It beat us up the Hard Scrabble hill before a giant boulder closed the trail for four days before a dynamiter from SLC arrived to clear the blockage.