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Posted on 01/16/2006 6:56:15 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
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I think most bike racks would get in the way of opening and shutting the rear door, though. And I'm travelin' on a budget...cheap rope is *vey* cheap. ;-)
I'm probably worrying needlessly about the cats as I've said...it's not like they've never traveled before. Tam used to ride with me every single weekend out to my parents', and Halvah was fine during the 2000 mile trip to CO.
Ummmkay...net bag? Interesting noises would get real old real fast...
Off to drop off the van!
I go along with Ruthy's suggestion of letting them out for rest stops every so often.
Are you planning on staying at hotels along the way or trying to sleep in the car?
I am not sure where the real roots are. The concept of ghosts and spirits having unfinished business and sticking around shows up in a lot of places and these days it is hard to say what influenced what. In anime it is mainly of course Japanese roots which are Shinto and Buddhist, mainly Shinto. I am not sure how closely related Shinto is to other east asian beliefs.
I'd say to leave them in the carrier and have it up front with you if the front passenger seat can accomodate it.
They'll feel safer seeing you there and you can talk to them and have a feel for if they ~really~ need out or are just being bratty. :-P
How do you feel about those (picatinny?) rails for attaching stuff to rifles, 300? I can't figure out whether to go for one or not.
Whoa...
Just got in from taking the jedis to the park. As we were walking up, we heard this BANG, but nothing more. So the kids went on to run around in the park and this lady and I sat and visited. Pretty soon, we see across the field at the road a fire truck coming, sirens going. So we both agree the bang we heard must have been a car accident...no squealing tires, though...
Pretty soon there was three fire trucks...the last one didn't have it's siren going though.
So we watched for a while, then we see a couple walking their dog coming from the general direction of the accident. They stopped and talked to us and said that a pickup truck had hit a motorcyclist and that the motorcyclist had been thrown up into the air and had flipped up over the truck. I don't know if this is true, but they seemed to know what happened.
What I do know is that they hauled a pickup off in the back of a flatbed truck and eventually all the emergency workers left and not one siren was sounded when they left.
I switched to them on my "target" rifles because you can get the rails with a 20 MOA downward slope. This puts on an automatic elevation increase, allowing a 300 yard zero. That leaves more elevation left in the scope turret to dial in longer ranges.
You get what you pay for, and better rails and rings allow for better repeatibility. At the ranges it's intended for, I can swap the ACOG and Eotech, and not sweat a 1/2 MOA variance. And if the otpics fail, it only takes a second to remove them, and pop up the backup iron sights.
Even on a hunting rifle, I see it as a big benefit if you need to quickly remove a failing scope without needing tools. The only other scope mounts I use are the Leopold dual-dovetail mounts as being the most recoil-proof around. Yuh can't go wrong with Leopold.
Oh, and I dust the inside of the rings with rosin before putting the scope in, to prevent any slippage in the rings. I also lap in the scope rings, but that's just me being a perfectionist.
That doesn't sound good at all!
One of the fire trucks looked like an ambulance, except it was all red, like a firetruck, not white like a normal ambulance. It drove away first, with no siren.
The lady I was visiting with and I both thought that it wasn't a good sign.
How awful. Hope the motorcyclist is OK. :-/
I don't know how folks have the guts to ride those things on city streets. With all of the bad drivers out there, a person is hard-pressed to survive in a car - much less a bike!
Hmmm... maybe it'll be good shooting weather in March...
I have a friend that lives in the neighborhood nearby...I emailed her and she's looking in to what happened.
I wonder if it'll make the news...
I think that answers it.
I can't find anything about it online though...at least not yet. All I have to go on is what that couple in the park said.
Well, it could also be that he was uninjured and they didn't bring him in at all... But he'd have been awfully lucky if he got hit that hard.
Hey Rosie... I'm just wondering if there's been any talk yet about routes and timing and such. This time of year is kinda rough passage over the Rockies.
There will be lots of snow and ice between you and here... Any thought given to waiting for March?
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