A Horse With No Name

Palo Duro Canyon in Amarillo When you need a little more height for the photo... Steam locomotive on Display in Amarillo. Paris, Texas. Broken Bow, Oklahoma.

Music for Thursday. Elon Musk is a moron of biblical proportions. I so want to visit Europe next year. My German Thorens TD 160 turntable, still spinning fine after almost 50 years. An actual soup can from the 1960's,,, More from the railroad museum Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo

Awesome That sound like a rational option I really think that America is a good place to eventually be from. That being said, I love American music. Music is Americas gift to the world. Of at least that much I am proud.

Scene from the model railroad at the Amarillo Railroad Museum. 69 Mustang in Traffic. The traffic light actually works!

We hiked a bit, this is from Keystone Ancient Forrest, oldest growth forest in Oklahoma. Keystone Ancient Forest hike. I decided to visit Oral Roberts University, where my sister thought of attending. She thankfully chose another school 40 or so years ago. But have always wanted to see it. Came to grips with some of the religious trauma in my life, and everyone there was friendly. From The First Nations Museum in Oklahoma City. Neat old roadside Ford Truck, Route 66. Abandoned gas station, Route 66

It would be a few years for us. My wife will get a nice pension when she retires from the state of Ohio, and my investments are doing well. Would mean giving up my woodworking shop, but for a chance to emigrate, I think it would be worth it. Wife and I exploring a small Kansas town along Route 66. Brick in a Kansas museum. IT stands for Indian Territory, so it pre dates Kansas. Woodworking tools in a Kansas Museum, Baxter Springs Kansas. Fire Engine from the same museum.

Missouri had a surreal beauty all its own...and no that isn't a dig at a member here. The whole experience of hiking in Missouri was wild...I loved it. More Missouri. American flag made out of Kansas lic plates. Route 66 in Kansas....

Visited this as my last stop on my trip west, it is amazing. Visiting a bunch of Native American sites, The First Nations Museum in Oklahoma City, a ton of Civil war sites, The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, The high school in Little Rock Arkansas that was at the center of the integration controversy, and realizing so much of our country's troubled past really put the last election into perspective. I think that America is like a grafted tree...the root stock of racism, hate, bigotry, nativism, and misogyny will seemingly always spring back up. The Mound From the top of "Monks Mound" you can see St Louis from the top of the mound. The arch should be very visible in this photo. The whole park feels very much like a sacred space. I really wanted to hike Black Mesa in the far NW corner of Oklahoma but weather prevented that. You can walk to NM and Colorado from the Black Mesa trail, and it is the highest point on Oklahoma.

See my above comment on renouncing US citizenship. Emotionally, I am done supporting the United States. It can literally go f@#k itself. I miss my 1966 Fastback Mustang and my 1955 Chevy. Right now, the only two or three vehicles I find exciting are the Colorado/Canyon, Ranger, and Tacoma. That's it. Like the Subaru Crosstrek from the stand point of a vehicle to get me to hiking trails. But no longing for anything I have owned built post 1966. Loving this era of Mopar at the moment... Sad sign of the times at Ohio rest stops.

I understand you are a thinking catholic, but 92 plus percent of religion is just so effing toxic. Exactly. You two just fit together so well. I freaking despise the Cowboys. I so want to renounce my US citizenship. But that is not new, I have felt that way for a decade or so. Would love to retire outside of the United States. Bonus points if I can never see this country again.

Its one reason I have owned my last ever VW/Audi product

This looks like a cool place to visit

Speaking of that era, documentary on the transistor... My future should include lots of music and hiking...and zero Tesla cars because I dislike Musk.

Exactly. But never allowed on the road... Agreed. The state of electric cars in 1959

I also change every 5K, given that the Ranger is a turbo.

They all should be scrapped actually.

Probably additional water damage...

Absolutely fantastic model building...

Agree... Removing a flooded car from a river. Ending on a positive note, a cool model train video.

Interesting how the number of repossessions is growing...

I can see that. Flood cars from NC, amazing damage... I intend to avoid anything to do with Musk. Morally a horrible human being.

Agreed E 85 may well keep your fuel system cleaner, I don't really know. It is affecting us as a university, all of the younger incoming students want to live at home and commute. That sounds like a great place to go.

Interesting, low mileage Buick just dropped off at the salvage yard...thankfully cleaned up and put back on the road. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-VTX7Z7bz3Q

Off topic but if Olds can post music, I can also. Great female vocalist cover of this song, one of my favorite songs for driving fast.