trinacriabob

Georgia

illegal

I think you must like blondes... My response to thread: Amsterdam

Boeing 747

Sounds like you're hanging your hat in PHX for a while...how far is Flagstaff and those cooler mountain places from PHX, in terms of hours in a car, and what practical choices do most Phoenicians have to escape the summer heat?

hood latch

Two words: HELL YES. I have really cut back.

I was on a 5-hour layover in Salt Lake City (it's a Delta hub) en route to Europe last summer. The LDS (Mormon) church offers a free shuttle into the downtown core IF you take their tour. Their niceness is very Stepford like...I wasn't too comfortable. So, I told them I had an architectural background and wanted to sketch their buildings...yeah, right. Instead, I wandered over to the genealogy library. It takes a long time to go through their microfiche. Couldn't go far enough back within my layover. I wouldn't want to go back there and would rather investigate on my own. I know that the surnames on my dad's side (his parents) are from the northern regions of Italy and that my mom's surname combo is from the south of Italy. Many of my family and relatives do not even remotely look southern Italian. So how does this DNA thing tell one their ethnic/anthropological mix? I still would rather follow the paper trail.

souvlaki

way cool

On the new one, I've only checked mileage once and it was 30.24 mpg on a freeway-only trip. On the old one, I checked mileage today on a trip that was on 2-lane highways with speeds in the 55 to 65 mph range. I used A/C part of the way. Got 27.92 mpg. Not bad, considering at its next oil change, it will have a quarter of a million miles.

Interesting. I didn't do that well. 9/15 (or poss. 10/15). Got all of the "newer" questions (post-1960) but none of the questions about the "family tree" toward its origins. So far, it looks like balthazar is leading the pack and that's no surprise.

No, actually, it's a big "circle" created by the railroad tracks east of Bakersfield CA and west of the Mojave Desert CA that enables the train to gain (or lose) altitude. In so doing, the first car of the train is either above, on a trestle, (or below in a tunnel) the last car. There is a vista point on the hill above that allows you to look at the whole thing from up high. It's a big "wow." My response to thread: scooter

So, PB, do you know what the Tehachapi Loop is? Any train aficionado would dig it. My response to thread: sealed

Do ALL of them end with "ian"? Thinking about people in school or neighbors in So Cal: Minassian, Hachigian, Shirvanian, Yacoobian, Ohanesian.... No boring phone books in So Cal, that's for sure.

Never seen that before. Nice design. Portugal has the coolest looking flag, IMO.

Tehachapi (as in Tehachapi Loop)

scoop

Marie Callender's

You're so highbrow...part of your charm, I guess.

fish and chips

You're a clever one, aren't you? :wink:

Brits

suntan

Most definitely, have a great b-day Mr. Monte Carlo!!!