If you live in Alaska’s interior you fill it before it hits half because you don’t want moisture precipitating out in the tank when it’s -50F.  You also fill at a station that has Heet pre-mixed with the gas if you don’t want to empty the plastic bottles with the impossible to get off tops. 

You’d think Alaska would have the worst roads. Not in my experience. The frost heaves can be a problem, especially around Fairbanks, it’s like a free roller coaster. Two years or so ago they had a massive earthquake (7.4?) and part of the Parks Highway between Anchorage and Fairbanks basically disappeared. They had it…

Slime molds rock. I’ve sought them out for years just to marvel at them. There’s too many influencers out in the woods these days hunting down morels and boletes to flex for the ‘Gram. They can keep their tasty edibles. I’m all in on slime. (really!)

I go to Seattle maybe once or twice a year now (well not last year). Their system is great. It’s not worth signing up for the pass if it’s just a few visits. They read my plate somehow and send me a bill two states away. I go online and pay it. No problem ever. If you don’t pay there’s a fine on top and next time…

277 lb-ft of torque, which is all sent through a CVT...

It’s a simple bail revocation and he remains in jail until his first trial and for his second trial. Given the backlog of cases due to Covid he could be in there a while. And it’s a county pre-trial lockup. Fewer amenities. He could plead guilty, but he doesn’t strike me as the type who would have any contrition.…

I can’t wait to see these on the trails at the mall!

Notice how the muzzle of mom’s gun is out of frame? I’m not an expert, although living in Antivaxxistan you pick up on gun things. Is that a silencer on the barrel of her military style weapon? Or is it a flash suppressor? Harmonic balancer? Hard to tell. Why in any sane world outside of a war zone would you need a…

I owned a Ford Courier (Mazda re-badge) in the 70s that failed repeatedly to deliver me to my location. It left me stranded in the North Dakota badlands. Its fuel pump caught on fire on some remote pass in Colorado and like a fool I threw sand on it to put the fire out. It died in Saint Louis. It died in Hays, Kansas…

Alaska’s indigenous population is incredibly diverse. I traveled over much of Indian Country in Alaska for 15 years. And yes,unchecked info does get relayed here. So thanks for confirming.

FYI. “Eskimo” is the equivalent of the N-word in northern rural Alaska.

It is not technically an affirmative defense. He would have to plead (or be tried) under a guilty but insane theory. The end result being that he gets locked up in a mental health facility where he can’t bond with his white supremacist cell mates. On average persons convicted under a guilty but insane theory end up…

Absolutely possible! Triple is even possible in this insanity. Seattle, quadruple.

Only way I’m going to a Mickey Dee’s for an omelet is if it’s a McRib Omelet.

Perfect. Let he who hasn’t taken an Ambien and done some light shopping cast the first stone. 

I just assumed the teacher was from Kenai (0% black population) when I started reading, but no, Fairbanks. Have a nice summer and hair day, you deserve it. It’s pretty much impossible for people Outside to comprehend Fairbanks unless they’ve been there in February or spent any amount of time out South Cushman.

The Idaho Legislature banned the teaching of CRT in the classroom statewide a few weeks ago. The housing prices in Boise immediately went up 10% across the board and the northern racist enclave of Couer d’ Alene became the hottest property market in America according to USA Today. It’s mostly driven by RWNJ white…

They made excellent guns of the AK-47 variant and still do as far as I know. But the whole hunting thing died out when a generation was not brought up to hunt. Even today if you want to hunt you have to register your gun AND the bullets. At the end of the hunting season you have to account for all the bullets. 

Probably hand in glove with Ceaucescu’s ban on hunting anywhere so he had all the good shots to himself. 

Nearest port is south in Bellingham. Unlikely an overseas RORO shipment would arrive there. Probably went into Vancouver, BC and they trucked it to the closest parking lot south of Blaine.