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  1. 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...

  2. On 8/14/2019 at 11:24 PM, DCA_HORN said:

    Well you can't have a fire on the beach anymore.  Nope. Any kind of fun? Nope.

    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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 4 hours ago, dingleberryswitzer said:

      PCH in an RV sounds like it sucks too.  I know people do it, but you'll be that asshole Texan clogging up the road.  

    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.

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  6. 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?

  7. 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....

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  8. 28 minutes ago, Texas_Rocks said:


    And yeah, there are a shit ton of motherfuckers out there that drive with the attitude that they can do whatever the fuck they want to do and everyone else will just have to deal with it.

     

      Was returning from my grandfathers funeral with my aunt and her road buddy Alma in aunties 429 T-Bird south on 395 back when it was a 2 lane. Laying down in the rear seat, half asleep, when aunt Dorothy  punches the big block and swings out to pass....       

    Alma  - "Dorothy, you do see that oncoming car, don't you?"

    Aunt Dorothy - "Yes, I do....but it's easier for them to pull off of the road then for me to get back in my lane with all those cars there."

    Don't recall sleeping for the rest of the trip.

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  9. Last year I walked into a podunk meat market/liquor store  in western Nevada, and bought 2 EHT 4G for $70 apiece. I was so blown away I didn't even ask about the remaining four bottles...

  10. Well, since this thing is veering off topic a bit, I'll further the detour...

    My boy scout troop (384) was mostly older boys, with a very high percentage of Eagle scouts. I was one of the youngest. Scoutmaster was a great dude, worked for the forest service, and took us on great backpacking trips. Every year, the scout-o-rama was held at brookside park, which is the park that surrounds the Rose Bowl.

    For the last couple of years, we were edged out of the overall high score for the event by an all asian troop , troop #3, from Gardena. The older boys had figured out a way to maybe swing the final tally in our favor. They accomplished this by getting troop #3 absolutely smashed the night before the final day's competition.

    We won. Once word got out on our doings, they reclaimed the trophy.  Then they disbanded our troop. No More 384.

  11. 1 hour ago, ChiTownDoc said:

     

    1 hour ago, ChiTownDoc said:

     

    My liver will rue the day this asshat dies.  Seriously.  Hide yo bourbon.  Hide yo scotch.  

    Mine too....but it will be a small price to pay.

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