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Originally Posted by Outback Porsche

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G'day Y'all.

Only 820kms from home now. About to drive the length of the Sandover Hwy tomorrow. Camped tonight in the Camooweal Caves National Park. Real pretty bush setting next to a billabong. Filled up with fuel this Arvo in Camooweal, drove 200 meters down the street to the local supermarket, came out of said supermarket a little while later to find my right rear tyre had gone flat on the bottom. TPMS said 19psi - crap! Should be 40psi like the rest of 'em. 38 deg C is no fun temp to change a wheel in. Looked over the tyre to find a 2 inch cut right at the base of the side wall. I could stick my tyre iron into it and see steel belt. It's stuffed proper. Bugger! I'm in the middle of nowhere and down to one spare left and 800km of dirt road to go - could be an interesting couple of days.

I looked up Camooweal on Google Earth. That is a very small town. Probably 50 buildings and an airport. I know the USA and Australia are about the same land mass, but we don't have so much dessert. When you are in the middle of nowhere you really are in the middle of nowhere. We can drive through Utah & Nevada and see nothing but rocks for hours on end. But we get to the other side and there is a big city there.

Several years Mrs Carrera rode with me as we drove Rout 50 in Northern Nevada. U.S. Route 50 in Nevada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

That was cool. There was a mountain pass with fun curvy roads, and then it opened up into a valley that was a straight road that was just empty. Another Mountain pass and another long empty road. We would drive for 30 minutes or more and not see any other car.

Porsche-poor · 09-11-2012, 06:34 AM

Morning all. 48 here fall is in the air.

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We had a low of 50 a few days ago. That was a record low for the date. Fall is on the way!

HHI944 · 09-11-2012, 06:56 AM

70s here and absolutely loving it!

nynor · 09-11-2012, 09:10 AM

morning.

Jim Richards · 09-11-2012, 09:17 AM

Hi d.

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Jim & D howdy.

Jim Richards · 09-11-2012, 09:23 AM

Hi Glen. How's the hip doing?

nynor · 09-11-2012, 09:26 AM

jim.

it is cooling off a bit, here, too. 69F, here. so much better than waking up to 85F.

tweezers74 · 09-11-2012, 09:29 AM

Good morning, Jim and D. Tonight I might be leaving Yuma! Woo hoo! Only to come back Monday.

But for only one day. Woo hoo!!!!!

Gonna go home and spend some time with my dad visiting from Belgium and my new niece.

Awesome pics on FB, btw, Jeff. Looks like you are having a wonderful adventure!

tweezers74 · 09-11-2012, 09:30 AM

Only in the 90s here in AZ! Cooling off.

Jim Richards · 09-11-2012, 09:33 AM

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Originally Posted by tweezers74

Only in the 90s here in AZ! Cooling off.

¡Ay, caramba!

nynor · 09-11-2012, 10:20 AM

i am about to do something crazy:

i am putting my .40SW browning hi-power up for trade for an AR style rifle, or other rifle. i just never use the pistola. i shot my friends AR colt yesterday. that thing is a HOOT!

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Originally Posted by Jim Richards

Hi Glen. How's the hip doing?

Better every day. There is still some swelling around the incision. If the old line that chicks likes scars is true I will have chicks chasing me. Of course the only way to see my scar is for me to drop my shorts.

My career as a spedo model is over. Of course I have not been making much money at that anyway.

The Physical Torturer keeps coming up with new and different tortures. I will be real happy when the tendon that runs along the side of my leg decides to quit hurting.

Overall the pain is already far better than before the operation. The old hip was very painful.

tweezers74 · 09-11-2012, 11:22 AM

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Better every day. There is still some swelling around the incision. If the old line that chicks likes scars is true I will have chicks chasing me. Of course the only way to see my scar is for me to drop my shorts.

My career as a spedo model is over. Of course I have not been making much money at that anyway.

The Physical Torturer keeps coming up with new and different tortures. I will be real happy when the tendon that runs along the side of my leg decides to quit hurting.

Overall the pain is already far better than before the operation. The old hip was very painful.

Speedo model! Ba ha ha ha! That was funny, Glen. And I am so happy to hear that your hip isn't as painful anymore. So all this trouble was worth it!

And I have to admit, I have a scar fetish. I was seeing a fella that had a scar that ran down his abdomen from a dirt bike accident. Holy schmoly... what the sight of that scar did to me. Don't know what it was about it but... Whew, my heart is racing just thinking about it. Yes, scars are a good thing.

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Holy molly. I authored and published a cartoon book 20 years ago. Ended up with 100,000 books in storage and thought they were trashed. Just got called this morning and a building owner found my 15 pallets of books and offered to let me come get them.

Anybody got any ideas for selling a whole bunch of books?

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Originally Posted by RKDinOKC

Holy molly. I authored and published a cartoon book 20 years ago. Ended up with 100,000 books in storage and thought they were trashed. Just got called this morning and a building owner found my 15 pallets of books and offered to let me come get them.

Anybody got any ideas for selling a whole bunch of books?

Amazon and Ebay.

nynor · 09-11-2012, 12:15 PM

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Originally Posted by tweezers74

Speedo model! Ba ha ha ha! That was funny, Glen. And I am so happy to hear that your hip isn't as painful anymore. So all this trouble was worth it!

And I have to admit, I have a scar fetish. I was seeing a fella that had a scar that ran down his abdomen from a dirt bike accident. Holy schmoly... what the sight of that scar did to me. Don't know what it was about it but... Whew, my heart is racing just thinking about it. Yes, scars are a good thing.

you'd just love me, in that case. i got more scars. big ones, too. even my fingertips. just had my fingerprints taken and the gal rolling my fingers (it showed up on a big computer screen) was absolutely giddy. true story. i have a witness.

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Originally Posted by RKDinOKC

Holy molly. I authored and published a cartoon book 20 years ago. Ended up with 100,000 books in storage and thought they were trashed. Just got called this morning and a building owner found my 15 pallets of books and offered to let me come get them.

Anybody got any ideas for selling a whole bunch of books?

wow. that is a lot of books. i'd go for amazon.

Porsche-poor · 09-11-2012, 12:23 PM

afternoon all. no sign of the evil one?

Outback Porsche · 09-11-2012, 01:44 PM

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I looked up Camooweal on Google Earth. That is a very small town. Probably 50 buildings and an airport. I know the USA and Australia are about the same land mass, but we don't have so much dessert. When you are in the middle of nowhere you really are in the middle of nowhere. We can drive through Utah & Nevada and see nothing but rocks for hours on end. But we get to the other side and there is a big city there.

Several years Mrs Carrera rode with me as we drove Rout 50 in Northern Nevada. U.S. Route 50 in Nevada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

That was cool. There was a mountain pass with fun curvy roads, and then it opened up into a valley that was a straight road that was just empty. Another Mountain pass and another long empty road. We would drive for 30 minutes or more and not see any other car.

G'day Glen, that drive sounds interesting.

Yep, nowhere is really nowhere. I've driven for 3 days out here without seeing another car. Have to make sure you have plenty of food and water before venturing out here, just in case it all goes pear shaped.