Robert Hall

Yes..that's probably the part I found the most disgusting...homeschooled by fundie Christians, young minds warped..

And the Internet and pants, as well..

I see a decent # of the regular HHRs around, but not a single panel yet...

There's something wierd about people having litters that big in the US....it's one thing for the poor and stupid in 3rd world countries to have huge litters, but it seems very strange in the modern world to have big litters, not to mention irresponsible (contribution to overpopulation, etc).

I don't see anything wrong with the G8's styling...it's certainly a huge improvement over the ugly Grand Prix...is that it is not gaudy enough to be badged a Pontiac?

Going down a busy 4 lane street (45 mph limit) Friday evening I saw a couple bubbas racing in diesel pickups (a Ford Super Duty and a GMC HD).... too bad their wasn't a cop around to nail their asses...

Good approach.. I've done 1 night stops when it was unavoidable because of flight connections (like 1 night in London when connecting between Italy and the US), but when I'm a specific country, I try and stay 3-5 nights in one place... one trip I did 5 nights in Rome, 3 in Florence, 2 in Pisa, IIRC. I want to go back sometime and rent an apartment or house in Umbria or Tuscany for 2-3 weeks and experience local living..

And put millions of Americans out of work...not a smart move. Globalisation isn't easy...

Not that it matters, but that looks more like a '64 Valiant grille to me...

Of course, if everything from China would be banned, shelves in the stores would be empty for a while...Americans would be unable to buy stuff... then suppliers to Wal Mart, etc would move production of everything to India, or Vietnam, or ...

Ok..the second one is maybe a 38 Cadillac...the last one I'm pretty sure is a '64 Valiant (or Barracuda, which was badged as a Valiant in '64).

Yeah, Santa Fe is nice..I have friends nearby in Los Alamos, I go down there once a while. SLC isn't bad, I esp. like nearby Park City..but likewise, I wouldn't be happy around the Mormons, same with Bible Belt areas....

Well, it's very green up in the mountains and certainly the coastal areas.. I don't think I could be in the desert Southwest, though I do like Phoenix.

Yes, but they had really subtle SS badges down on the rocker trim, IIRC.

No clue on the 1st one, the 2nd one is a 40s Cadillac, the 3rd a mid 60s Valiant, I think..

I saw a sharp silver '04 Marauder w/ sun roof last night... parked next to a black Charger SRT8.

Those bridges remind me of one I walked across w/ some friends in 2000 over the Genesee River in Letchworth State Park in western New York. Beautiful place. The thing I can't get over in these pictures is how green it is... I guess I've gotten used to the arid West and forgotten how green it is in the East....

Ok...is there any difference between the '08 or '07 or '06? I don't think I'd notice that one was an '08...

Not a horror story, but back in the late '90s I worked for MCI and was a developer of the system that routes incoming phone calls to specific phones in call centers..so when you called, you call was routed using my software..

Big country, lots of busy people...things like this (condition of infrastructure) are out of sight, out of mind for most people.. it seems like we have to have some big, highly visible w/ lots of media attention incident to occur to pay attention and realize it could happen anywhere.. On a small scale, it's the same way with cars...many (most?) drivers don't maintain their cars, they go along oblivious until a bald tire or no oil causes a problem..

Surprising that Iowa has so many bridges...lots of rivers? I remember crossing the Mississippi when I drove I80 across Iowa, but that's all I noticed..

Wasn't resonance frequency why the Tacoma Narrows bridge went down years ago? Speaking of resonance frequency, I read a bit about problems with it as far as airplane parts vibrating together during the development of the 747 (Joe Sutter's book '747' is a great read, finished it the other day).

Wierd wheels and tires on that Lincoln, but I love the style of the '60s Lincolns... the '60s Lincolns and one of those massive Mopars would make neat weekend cruise toys. (for myself, I need something late model for a daily driver).

I wonder if current traffic volume had an affect on the bridge's structural integrity due to the weight, etc...I'm sure the volume today is much higher than it was when it was built (or was built to accomodate)... this is a problem I've seen with bridges and freeway overpasses, etc around here..the traffic volume today is much higher than when the roads were originally built.

Interesting... I never realized Delaware was considered a southern state...always thought of it as an east coast state, like New Jersey..