Great Mardi Gras story Steve.
I am a huge fan of the Schlafly's Pale Ale and promote it to everyone I know.
I also took my 924S for a drive this weekend. It was just going to be a trip across some rolling country lettered highways out to help a friend work on another car and back, about a 60 mile total drive. Ended up driving there and then up to another town to visit with some more people, and then drove (after dark) out to a private community for a small 'get-together' as we are calling our small gatherings now. The P-car stayed there until the morning when I drove the way back to store her in the garage again. In all over a half tank of gas. And the P-car never skipped a beat, even after succumbing to some trackday time on a certain stretch of 'C Hwy' that I swear was built by out of work race track pavers. I will have to get some video of it sometime (when the road is closed for racing, of course
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The fall colors made everything that much better.