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otisdog

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  1. Nor did they at Clevland 5 weeks ago...i declared it though. Got me a 'fragile' sticker.
  2. This is going to sound a bit elementary, but riding 17 mile drive on a bicycle is one of the nicest rides that I've been on. Stop at the Tap Room @ Pebble Beach to 'rehydrate'.
  3. Woke up in the middle of the night screaming...Wife -Ambulance? Me -Fuck yes! Rolled me into ER and was told that I got to go to the head of the line because of my mode of conveyance. Doctor said 'we got just the thing" and hooked me up to an IV. Pee'd into the screen and caught that fucker...miniscule! Doc was delighted we had the culprit. Turned out I was poping Ascerola like candy for the vitamin C. Doc said that stuff was pure calcium, and so was my stone. No more Ascerola, and no more stones, so far. Not a big water fan.
  4. Cincy's leading DB, who had 3 game winning interceptions last year, injured his knee this week and is out for the season. Old Grand-Dad 114 is in the starting lineup tonight.
  5. It's amazing what a different P.O.V. will do...was a great game to watch in Los Angeles.....
  6. Was in Ohio 2 weeks ago, and OWA was common...you could buy 2 bottles a day. Sister-in-law is wondering when I will get the 2 cases out of her garage....
  7. Missed the last bottle of Elmer T. Lee by a couple of minutes this morning at Total Wine....12 bottles in 90 minutes. Damn Stones concert last night definitely affected my productivity this morning...
  8. Yeah this is the time to be in Hermosa....even during 'normal' times, it's hard to ride the strand bike path with all the 'scenery' towards the ocean!
  9. it's cuz you're in the wrong county...head south young man, head south. Orange County, where people who are serious about the beach go...Bolsa chica - fire pits. Huntington state - fire pits. Take your cruiser and ride the boardwalk. Blackies at the first pier, Balboa saloon by the ferry. Ride all the way to the jetty, AKA "The Wedge", and check out Dick Dales old house. LA beachs suk dik... I'll buy tomorrow @ Blackie's... red board shorts. red hawaiian shirt, short wife.
  10. I can state with certainly he was the most cantankerous cuss that I have ever worked with. By far. What a miserable SOB.
  11. Glad you liked it...
  12. Berkeley has also just changed the building code so that new residences are not allowed to have natural gas utilities....I'm sure heating a house in the winter with electricity will be cheap. Cooking with electric is fun, too.
  13. Smaller is better....getting off of the beaten track, and away from the tourists, will get you a more authentic experience. Hard to do, though - most of southwest Ireland is a tourist economy.
  14. We stayed in Dingle at a nice place on the water, and drove to the park. Drove the Gap, which was interesting...the hired horsecarts try to intimidate you into not driving, to protect their business. Freaked the wife out.... Good Oysters. Dingle distillery tour was good, too. Tour guides are very knowledgable, learned a lot, especially how prohibition forever changed Scotch distribution in the world. Buses....they all drive the same direction on the various "Rings." Hotel lady told us to be sure to go 'anti-clockwise' so as to not meet the buses head on - she had it backwards. So everytime we met a bus, I had to back up in my new, racy German sportscar that has a wing, which means you can't see shit where you are backing to, and the road is as wide as a horsecart trail, with one side of it plunging down to the sea. Guiness wasn't strong enough after this drive.
  15. C918 is prevalent in California.
  16. Nope...amphibians.
  17. Huh?
  18. Jealous....you're in beer heaven. Innsbruck is a quick train, lot's of hiking there.
  19. Totally OT....Visited my good friends uncle's farm in Norway. Took us on a 3 hour tour of the property. Had bottles of Aquavit (water of life) stashed everywhere! Hay stacks, watering troughs, tool sheds, everywhere. We were waxed by the time we got back to the house. That stuff dehydrates you like no other booze.
  20. The road is already clogged by cars... a motorhome is not going to slow it down anymore than it already is. On memorial day weekend I was amazed at the amount of backpackers staging on Hwy 1. PCH north from San Luis Obispo to Monterey. Hwy. Hwy 4 (through Angels Camp & Murphys)over Ebbets pass to the eastern Sierra, then south on 395 to the June Lake loop. 1st come, 1st served campgrounds on the waterfront @ Gull Lake. Convict Lake, beautiful with a great restaurant. Only people that go to Death Valley in July are the crazy Germans and French. Yosemite is pretty packed, but most tourists are late risers. Worth driving west up Tioga pass (120) to the park gate for your mountains, if it's plowed by then . Bodie ghost town. Mcarthur Burney falls state park up by Shasta. Free legal camping on any BLM land, and there is a lot of it in the eastern Sierras. Pm me with any questions.
  21. Well, what are your interests? California has the most varied geographical features in the country...I've lived here my whole (long) life, and am still amazed at the things I find. Beach, desert, high mountain ranges, podunk towns off of the beaten path?
  22. The Metro trains are a decent way to get around, and the routes are fairly extensive. No parking issues, either.
  23. Another vote for the oberland. We usually stay in Grindelwald, but Wengen will be next. Fly into Munich, which will save some time and money compared to Frankfurt. I found Garmisch has grown too big, so we went uphill to Mittenwald, which was nice. Anyplace in the Alps will have plenty of trails. To make it easy on the kids, ride the gondolas up and hike down. You might consider Austria, Innsbruck to be exact. Winter Olympic town, with a great oldtown. Short ride (hourish) from the Munich Haptbahnhof. Austria is definitely cheaper than Switzerland, and easier accessed, but the Tyrolian Alps aren't as impressive. Hard to go wrong heading south out of Munich. Coastal towns of Croatia are a zoo, due to some TV show....
  24. Original Hitching Post in Casmalia is my preference over Post II. '50's steakhouse on the northern border of Vandenberg. NASA rocket man hangout.
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