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I'd love to disappear to the Scottish Highlands or the Alps. Lake Maggiore on the Swiss-Italian border would be such place (was there in 2004).

Beautiful. I love the Hudson River Valley. And driving along I-87 between Montreal and NYC. I stopped in Plattsburgh, where SUNY is located just south of the Canadian border, and got a fantastic gyro meal. And, a long time ago, I met up with "razoredge" in Albany, his general area, and that was a hoot. If you ever fly into Newark or LaGuardia airports and you diagonally go over the Hudson River Valley, it's amazing that so much pristine, wooded land is that close to NYC. The same would apply to the eastern ~2/3 of Long Island. The middle of it is very rural once you go way east.

I could deal w/ that also...been there, love them.. and they have diesel Grand Cherokees in Europe...

I know I can lock my front axle and I have the G80 on my rear axle.... I don't know if my center transfer case locks though.... now I need to go find out. We need comprehensive election process reform. No other countries have these problems we have with counting votes. As I often say, you can have Eco or you can have Boost, but you can't have both at the same time.

^ the 3 lil dots in the upper right corner...

Yes. Very beautiful. Ausable Chasm are awesome. Lake George is awesome. I always enjoy that drive going to Lake George. I only have one huge regret, is that I have never been to Lake Placid...yet. One cant edit anymore I noticed. OK... you folk are possibly going to witness PLENTY of spelling mistakes and grammatical errors from my posts going forward.

But not the TB SS? Wonder why? Because that LS2 sounds too good to swap and you know it! K5 Blazer is one of my favorite old SUV's, top 3 fav. rides for sure.

Yup, posted about it on the last couple of pages. I am excited that GM is going to use the Ultium family of batteries and motors for various connect and cruise packages that will have all the controllers, wires, cooling, etc. in a package that can be then used to convert any ICE to EV. Thinking of this for my 1994 GMC Suburban.

^ bucolic... I like the Hudson River Valley...been to a few places near the river years ago--Albany, Saratoga Springs, Sleepy Hollow, Tarrytown, Bear Mountain State Park... very scenic in places. On my to-do list for an eventual vacation..

We need comprehensive GOVERNMENT reform, on all levels... but unfortunately the 'fox runs the henhouse'.

The country is insane. I want to go for a long hike in Patagonia.

Here ya go @David I have to say, it would be really weird not feeling or hearing the 350 or 454 V8 rumbling under the hood! https://gmauthority.com/blog/2020/10/electric-1977-chevrolet-k5-blazer-e-revealed-ahead-of-sema360/

Hey! We missed you and your diatribes! How's the weather up North? Any snow on the ground yet?

Well...yeah. I agree. But... The leader of the free world surely profited and often goaded a certain demographic to continue the political charade. And he used that as a tool to try to get himself re-elected tonight.

Confused? Get yourself properly informed, you might not be so confused and look like a moron when you post your shyte trolly posts...

Uh, Why? Are 2-engined large planes now the norm?

I was having this discussion with the curator of a small aviation museum. I loved the Airbus 340. The 330 is basically the same fuselage, with 2-4-2 economy inside, but has 2 larger engines. In addition to saving fuel, he said that there are much fewer work hours spent on engine maintenance for the 2 engine Airbus 330. They are the norm for many European carriers for transatlantic flights. I am just thankful to have grown up "alongside" the Boeing 747, and being able to ride my bike to LAX, alone or with friends, to look at them from the observation tower or view areas surrounding the airport.

And probably a lot of custom 'mil-spec' parts that you can't find from normal GM suppliers...

Now we're talking! A REAL EV and Super Truck.

Consumer reports has published their latest report on auto cost savings for owning an EV over a comparable ICE auto. Seems the average savings on owning an EV to a comparible ICE is $6,000 to $10,000 with Tesla 3 being the best at $15,000 savings over it's lifetime. Average fuel savings is 60% alone. https://chargedevs.com/newswire/consumer-reports-popular-ev-models-cost-less-to-own-than-comparable-legacy-vehicles/

TBG SS is limited production, has a collectors status with high resale value even with the miles I have on it. Once I think I convert the Suburban, I will probably garage the SS for just weekend trips is my long term thinking. After all, how many TB SS do you really see, they stand out from the standard TB. Even now I get compliments and people are surprised when they learn it is a TB SS edition.

French Alps for me. It's a bit warmer.

Iran is a cool country, would actually love to Visit. More true than you realize...

Ford Ranger on the Trans American Trail...not my ranger though. I am starting to really love mine. Fuel economy is dropping slightly as it is getting more broken in, probably because I am driving it loaded up with all sorts of things frequently, and also enjoying the Turbo.

Just between his ears...just kidding. I think this is a badass truck though.

That one wasn't done by politicians tho. (I can see a case argued for the others...)

If 'you're' going to scream incessantly "VOTE!!!", but then your election coverage maps immediately call a state the literal minute the poles close with ZERO data in, you're just disenfranchised an entire state of voters.

There is another reason or two as well. Engines of the past were not reliable. Birds ramming them or high altitude where air was scarce or frozen temps would wreak havoc, etc, it was mandated that trans-Atlantic or trans-Pacific crossings would be safer if the airplanes had 3 or more as safeguards just in case 1 engine or two would fail, the airplane would have the other engines to fly with. Remember, crossing the Pacific and Atlantic, no land available for the plane to land. The Boeing 747 could actually fly and land with 1 engine. It has to land immediately, but one engine has enough thrust to safely land the Queen of the Skies. Its engineered that way. As jet engine tech has evolved, more powerful and more economical engines exist today. And more importantly, more reliable and more fail proof. It is no longer required/mandated for airplanes to fly over the Atlantic and Pacific with a 4 engined airplane . 2 is sufficient as the engines today are almost bullet proof. 1 engine could do the job, if the other fails, but today, its almost impossible for 1 engine failure to happen. 2 engines failing is really really impossible. Therefore, 4 engined airplanes are just unnecessarily guzzling expensive jet fuel for nothing. Im not into bikes, but Ive got some faves. British bike for me is this Triumph. T100 Steve McQueen and the Great Escape introduced me to this bike and the retro version this past decade...

Not to mention that the engines themselves have gotten much bigger and as an example, the Dreamliner 787 can fly for 5000 miles on 1 engine alone.

I love vintage Japanese bikes also. 4 Engine planes are going away fast.