Until the 2" lift and skid plates are a factory option I’m out. ND.

I’ve lived in the arctic. Grizzlies (brown bears) don’t bother me. Polar bears are a whole ‘nother story. They will stalk your ass for food. Grizzlies you have to piss off like invading their food space or bothering their cubs.

I usually pour some cat litter into the latex can and set it out in the hot sun. Probably not the go-to method in Alaska (plenty of sun in June, been kept awake by it there, just not warm). That’s a good tip about the chemical available at hardware stores. Never heard of that.

So much for moving to Missoula. I saw last week that Billings is the number three hotspot in real estate nationwide. Obviously, none of those USA Today writers have ever been to Billings. 

So my retired friend bought this monster Ford F-250 to haul the trailer they were going to buy and cruise all around Antivaxxistan. The tailgate’s top is about even with my eyes. I’m 6'. First thing my friend did was heave his bicycle into the bed of the monster truck which resulted in a titanium shoulder and a year…

The new Ford Bronco allegedly has this limb-riser option from the factory. I see Jeeps with them occasionally, but it’s a jungle/forest thing. 

Admittedly, Free Comb with Pagoda, is not one of Basquiat’s greatest works, but that you can buy anything original by Basquiat for $80K surprised me. At least the Estate put an end to the NFT nonsense. What would you even do with a Basquiat NFT? Have it play like some expensive wallpaper on a widescreen TV in your…

Rickenbacker Motor Car Company, started by the WWII Ace Eddie himself. Tandem flywheel construction at the rear of the crankshaft greatly reduced vibration. Although Chrysler later figured out a better solution. What did in the car was Eddie’s insistence on brakes at all four corners. Studebaker led the challenge and…

The lede is misleading. It’s a 14 hour plus drive from Anchorage to Haines, the ferry port nearest Juneau. It’s another 4 hours on the ferry to Juneau. Which assumes you arrive right when they are loading the ferry. Most likely you will have to wait around for hours to load your car. Then another two hours to offload…

It’s a 19 hour plus drive to Haines and the ferry terminal from Anchorage. You can fly from Haines to Juneau on a number of commercial small 4-6 person planes. Don’t know if they require masks.

Maybe read D.C. v. Heller, 554 US 570 (2008). That ship sailed under dead Scalia’s tortured reasoning thirteen years ago. 

Strapped into a Land Rover Airportable, thrown out of the back of a C-130 (as God intended) with a parachute, and enough explosives timed to obliterate it half way to the ocean’s surface. 

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.