Adventioneering

There is a lot of (conflicting) information out there about the Maserati clutch and transmission situation. It doesn’t help that the early versions of the transmissions had a lot of problems, and that exotic owners tend not (I’ve learned) to drive their cars more than 5 or 6k per year on average.
Consequently there isn’t [...]

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Victoria is down in NYC so I have nothing better to do than listen to the radio, and I stumbled a bizarre repeating beacon-like noise at 4.805. As I run up the band it drops off and then picks back up around 4.820 and runs up to 4.835. It sounds a bit like a C64 [...]

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I am shopping around for a BBQ-style grill for use camping. Once upon a time I had one of those tiny weber kettles, which was super cute, except horrible to pack in the rover (because it was round, weird, and inevitably dirty), and the ashes were a big pain to clean up. At some sites [...]

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Living in Vermont for a couple of years I formed the impression that, compared to the pacific time-zone, Vermont doesn’t really have mountains. New Hampshire gets a pass though; they do in fact have real mountains, if a bit tame. What is decidedly not tame is Mt. Washington.
The Mt. Washington auto road is how you [...]

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Which you can find here.

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In the old days, I used to try to get beta on forest roads by calling the ranger or whoever I thought might know something. I did this because I figured it’d be good to know whether I needed to pack, say, three or four spare tires (road of bones, Nevada), waders (mountain loop highway, [...]

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[ October 11, 2008; ]

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