Just having fun man. You know I like your car. With whatever happened to BMW - It is nice that Audi have taken up the elegant German car to keep it alive. But my little car is one of these marvels where it is so cheap, so reliable, so much fun and since it lives outside, so used - that there is no reason to ever sell it or try to baby it. I drive it a lot and it is frankly, the best car I ever had overall. Not the fastest, most comfortable, best race car, most usable - but if there ever was a car that repaid me back whatever I put in it and some - it's that one. If you are careful about ground clearance - it actually makes for a nice back-country exploration car as well. Not to bad for a 27 years old car that is closing on 200,000 miles and never had any of it's drivetrain rebuilt.
I was joking as well. I really miss driving a stick. I have the paddles on the steering wheel, but it’s just not the same.
That mountain kicked our butt yesterday. Only 4.5 miles hike, but 90% of it was uphill, followed by a very steep downhill.
Boy does this bring back memories of my Navy daze in the early to mid ‘70’s. I shouldn’t admit it but that was where we went to sample hallucinogenics.........a safe place to trip at sunset. We even had a tarantula we found along the way. We named it Julian after the town we found it near......Palomar was such a nice place to hang out back in the day.......
Still is. The road up and down the mountain can become a bit of a fast and the furious scene at times - the motorcycle crowd love it (and for a good reason, it is 7 miles of glorious curves). I tend to go early in the morning, before the place starts crawling with that crowd.
Back then I had a 1965 Lincoln Continental (conveniently priced thanks to Egypt attacking Israel in ‘73). On the weekends we’d put a pony keg in a washtub of ice in the (humongous) backseat, throw our camp gear in the trunk and pile in for a weekend of exploring Palomar and beyond. Since I owned the car (and was the chauffeur) I never had to pay for gas (at 8-10 mpg. Cha Ching!). Gawd we hated to have to go back to San Diego on Sunday evenings......with Mexico to the south, LA to the north and the ocean to the west, we were always grateful that we could go east and actually get away from SoCal density (even back then) and/or Mexican corruption (teenage gringos are exceedingly easy marks). Sounds like the Palomar area is even more popular now than it was back then. Your photo brings back some very enjoyable memories after all these years......
I’ve shared on here before that I don’t own a real camera. Just an iPhone. But I hadn’t got a new one in 3 years, til this week. Stepped up and got the iPhone 12 Pro Max. Very excited to try out this camera. So the other night around 1:30am, I took a shot out my back door with my old iPhone....... And then immediately with the new iPhone...... Safe to say, THE HCP is VERY happy with the results. The night time mode on the new was is absolutely amazing!!! 1:30am!
