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Old 07-18-2009, 04:07 AM   #47 (permalink)
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Moderate your Moderation.
 
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I enjoy the "joyride maintenance check", personally.

Get on Google Maps, find yourself a 150 mile route that ends near a gas station, out in the country somewhere, preferably with nice twisty roads that go up over/around mountains.

Get there, have lunch, fill 'er up, drive home.

I'm probably crazy, but I enjoyed driving from Harrisburg, PA to Niagara, NY and back in one day (about 14 hours, the whole way back I had an engine in the trunk and a complete CRX dash and several other goodies in the back seat, my wife in the passenger side, who didn't have a license at the time. Drove there, loaded the engine, grabbed a snack and drinks, and drove home, all in a 1.5L 1988 Honda Civic.)

The whole trip, I averaged about 40MPG.
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I'd like to think that people might open their eyes at some point... instead, I find it more and more likely that I'll just close mine.

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Je ne veux pas d'une meilleure vie. Je veux être heureux avec celle que j'ai maintenant.
(I do not want a better life. I want to be happy with the one I have now.)


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