As for the locals,well—you’ll spot them out and about, as usual—probably in old pickups with questionable tires and zero worries. They’ve been living way out here so long they’d rather slide into the ditch than admit winter’s slowing them down. It’s just another day in paradise...
Winds which mostly arrive in the fall, but this time in mid-winter. My late father, the professional research biologist who gave the best nature walks ever, told us over and over how the native ecosystem was engineered by nature to burn every twenty-five to thirty years; to burn fast, ...
has so often quipped). Nothing could be closer to the truth. But my oh-so-wonderful, month-at-a-glance, tangible timeline-on-the-fridge helps me hold it all together, to keep everything in its proper perspective and to effectively answer questions like, “What are you doing next Tuesday...
Last week I got a new set of tires for my car as well, the Michelin X-Ice Snow tires that I wanted couldn’t be found after ordering them 2 weeks earlier so I settled for a set of Continental IceContact XTRM. I thought I was getting the VikingContact series (should have asked) but...
The streets were completely empty, something we’ve rarely seen in Haiti. The officers drove ahead of us, stopping at the first roadblock where tires were still smoldering. Then, in something out of a Jason Bourne movie, the officers jumped out of the truck and proceeded to clear the area...
Knowing this, Greg began researching how I could do this as a hobby, and you really have to have acarto drive if you want torace. He started a search in February, secretly bought me a car in June, had racing tires and other work done to make it track-ready, and hid it in the ...
We left Rimini by night boat to reach the meteors in Greece. It was our first opportunity to test our car off-road to reach some monasteries. Thanks to our reinforced tires, the gravel and stones made for an easy playground. After two weeks of cultural visits through Greece, we reached ...
I remember travelling back to Canada last February and after the added stress of having my rental car get a flat tire on the highway, I’ll never go back to Canada in the winter again unless I am able to drive there with my own car. It basically ruined my plans and I went back ho...
The world never tires of diming the bright and blunting the sharp, I said. It’s good to avoid suffering when one can. So you play a dumb version of yourself, he said. Are you suffering any less? Suffering, I thought, was a word that no longer held a definition in my dictionary. ...
“In many parts of the country, winter roads will likely give way to pothole-laden obstacle courses,” said Greg Brannon, AAA’s director of automotive engineering. “When a vehicle hits a pothole with any kind of force, the tires, wheels and suspension get the brunt of the impact and fi...