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  1. You've made good choices....Wengen has more options  quality restaurant and room wise, but if you're using it as a base, it's remoteness up there translates into more travel time per day, same with Murren.  But if your exploring means hiking, Wengen would be fine.  Lauterbrunnen is a nice place to sit on a patio, drink bier, and watch waterfalls, but being in the canyon pales in comparison to being up above. Either of the to 'upper' towns are unworldly beautiful...you might find yourself content to just soak up the beauty...it's breathtaking up there. Grindelwald is also nice, a bit more sleepy than the others. Hotel Gletschergarten there is one of my favorite places to stay, sitting on the balcony in the morning looking at the Eiger, eating pastry from the  good bakery right across the street. The cemetery across the street, towards town has many gravesites of climbers who have died in the nearby heights...it's worth the look. The train runs to Grindelwald, not so the others. You will love the area.

  2. On 1/23/2024 at 10:26 AM, uoftorange said:

    Anyone else dream of a Delta unisaw because that's what Norm used?

    I had 8 unisaws (4 left, 4 right) for my business, but the powermatics were the workers favorites. Having said that, I kept a pair of unisaws when I retired.

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  3. 2 hours ago, Rimbo said:

     

    I live in SoCal. I assure you there are no cops here voting for Biden.

    Wrong....my BIL on the El Segundo force is voting Biden

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  4. 21 hours ago, T’Boo Ted Marshall said:

    Downsizing your wheels? Are you some kind of animal?

    If you're really using a truck for it's intended use, and I realize about 4% of buyers are, then the more sidewall the better. The look on the sales manager's face when I asked to trade for 2"  smaller wheels was unforgettable.  But what he did forget was to swap the spare, too. Realized that when I got back home, 850 miles later.

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    Jimi

    On 11/28/2023 at 7:22 AM, Gil Bang said:

    I read the other day that Jimi wanted Stephen Stills as his bassist, but the message never got to Stills until after Jimi’s death.

    Stills absolutely would have done it.

    Steven Stills quote - "I was just trying to figure out what to do next (after Buffalo Springfield). I followed Jimi Hendrix around the country for a year learning how to play lead guitar and he taught me some great things'"

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  5. The Stones! Their website resale went live yesterday @ noon, I pulled off the freeway and snagged 4 seats in the 24th row. After saying it for the last 10 to 12 yers, I really think this will be their last tour.

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  6. 14 hours ago, GenXer said:

    It is oddly remote, and the south side of the peninsula is oddly sparsely populated. 

    The sparsely populated areas are due to the many geologically unstable areas....four houses slid into a ravine awhile back. The best lobster that I ever had was taken off of the PV peninsula.

  7. 1 hour ago, GenXer said:

     

    But goddamn, that’s a rough commute to USC everyday as opposed to driving around norman.

    PV is a rough commute to anywhere...it's amazing how remote it is from the rest of socal. But once you're home, the remoteness is quite appreciated, as is the climate. I know many people who have lived in socal their whole life and have never been there.

  8. 53 minutes ago, Mach 1 said:

    I’m ashamed to admit he’s grown on me. Like a boil, that I’m watching to see if it expands.

    Had my 21st birthday party @ his dad's restaurant in San Pedro, Petros was one of the servers....on the way back north on the Harbor freeway, one of the four cars in our party got picked off by the CHP, and nobody noticed until the unlucky driver called my house requesting us to bail him out. Petros voice may be grating, but he certainly knows what he is talking about. Have never heard him make a statement that caused me to say WTF? 

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