Nonsense Thread

[Northern]

I've been slacking on r3v, damn. Summer has been busy as shit.

Lots of vacancies/vacation/injuries at work so I'm covering off something like 4 jobs while running the section.

Garage progress has been slow. It rained the entire month of June, and at least twice a week since.
We had something like 10" of rain in less than 24h, destroyed a lot of shit around here, but I made out like a bandit because they put the roof on the garage a few hours before it started.
Can't get a dedicated electrical service to the garage, so the electricians are here trenching to the house. Everything new is built for 200A, but running on a 60A breaker off the house's 200A Panel until I can go back and upgrade.

Kitchen reno going full blast to be done in time for:

My pregnant-as-fuck wife to pop sometime early Oct (It's a girl!)
Lots of money/time going toward preps on this front.
Should be taking off work Oct-New Years.

Zero car stuff on the go, everything in some state of broken lol

This past week I was out of town and had the displeasure of renting a Hyundai Venue. What a hunk of shit, why do cars like this even exist?

I had the misfortune of renting one of these piles of shit 2 years ago and it really is a shockingly bad car.
I tend to think the newer hyundais are pretty decent cars - I've been in a few and was impressed - but that really set me back.

[varg]

How would recommend somebody goes about visiting? Any specific places to stay or locations to check out?

I flew into Medford and stayed close to Crater Lake in Fort Klamath, about a 35min drive. The little cabins at the Aspen Inn are where I stayed, they are clean but small and it was the closest and most reasonably priced place I could find. Perfect for a place to shower and sleep while after being out all day. There is not much out there in Klamath, I'd recommend it for the thrift and ease of access though. Plenty of campgrounds around. You can also stay north of Crater Lake but everything is a lot further away. You're really limited by the time you want to spend, half of the trails and road around the lake were closed when I was there and we still used two whole days hiking and sightseeing. There are plenty of places nearby too, I went to the rogue river gorge and barr creek falls while I was there. In the park I wanted to hike Mount Scott or Garfield Peak but both were closed, they afford the most complete view of the lake. Snow persists all the way into July and some trails were closed because of it. I hiked discovery point to watchman's peak and that was a moderate length hike with a good view on the peak as payoff, you can see the lake for most of that 5ish hour hike which is great but you have to either hike back or get a ride back to your starting point if you do that. The altitude did get to me on that hike, I was winded climbing the peak trail at the end. Drawbacks of living at 10-15ft above sea level for your whole life

You have to see a sunset or sunrise while you're there, we couldn't watch the sun set over the lake because of the closed roads on the east side but it was still beautiful looking at the mountains west of the lake and the shadows falling across it from the rim.

[Chilezen]

Crater lake is the most beautiful place I've seen

How would recommend somebody goes about visiting? Any specific places to stay or locations to check out?

[varg]

Crater lake is the most beautiful place I've seen in America, it's not like I haven't seen much:

• Yellowstone
• the Tetons
• Badlands
• the Black Hills
• the Smokies
• the Rockies
• Grand Canyon
• The canyon lands of Utah and AZ (horseshoe canyon, glen canyon and antelope canyon)
• Lassen
• Mt Shasta
• Redwoods
• Plenty of coastlines, beaches and lakes

I can't even think of a place outside of the US which rivaled Crater Lake either. Not mt Fuji, the alps or the various countrysides and forests of Europe that I've seen. It is a really majestic place. Mountains are beautiful, I love mountains, but a deep blue lake in the middle of a huge Caldera dotted with remnants of snow is really something unique.

Trinidad seems to be an extremely expensive area. I'm satisfied with visiting the west coast to see the nature and not living there.

[Chilezen]

Great photos, especially the one of Crater Lake. Still blows my mind how big and deep that thing is. Would love to see it in person one day.
I want to move out to a smaller coastal town up north.. not north enough to get snow, but definitely enough to be surrounded by green. I guess Trinidad could be one of those places.

[McGyver]

Shit, those pictures are really making me miss living out in CA. Philly is cool and way more affordable, but man, the nature out west was on another level. So big and so seemingly close to killing you (wild fire, drought, landslide). Maybe I need to get out more on the east coast to explore around PA.

[varg]

Hot? Yeah, it's summer. Low 90s here now, might be hotter where you all are, I was out in northern CA and southern OR a couple of weeks ago and the numbers were higher, but I was more comfortable. The humidity is 60-70% here, the breeze is anemic and my car is black, I am tiring quickly of having no AC, I may stop trying to find a clutch and just get a whole compressor and parallel flow condenser soon. My car is an oven on a sunny day. I've seen over 140°F inside when I open the door.

About that trip, my wife and I visited and hiked in Crater Lake, the Redwood parks, and Lassen Volcanic national park and it was great to get out and see the sights again. Unfortunately, a few of the trails we wanted to do were closed due to snow, but I still got to see a lot. I haven't processed my DSLR photos yet but here are a few of my favorite snapshots from my phone.

Crater lake.


A gnarled tree in one of the Redwood parks.


Lake Helen in Lassen


Side note, I'd never been to CA and in my many years on car forums I have always seen you CA car guys complain about your roads a lot; you are right to. They were in surprisingly bad shape. Also, I spotted the rustiest squarebody I've ever seen, in Trinidad CA of all places. This thing must have worked near the shore for many years to get this bad. Pieces of it were falling off, the mirror lay on the ground next to it, the hood was bulging with rust, the doors falling apart.

[2mAn]

Ops.. Build thread needs some updates.

Looks like you're POOOR now too...

[moatilliatta]

Ops.. Build thread needs some updates.

[Chilezen]

When I was a kid, I played outside when it was hot. And when it was cold, I played inside.

In the last few years, those opportunities for playtime have disappeared. Now it's just HOT and COLD.

Booooo

[mrsleeve]

I have been around for many years and its always HOT in the summer and COLD in the winter, why are we all acting surprised by this phenomenon here in the last couple of years ????

[Chilezen]

It's been in the hundreds... but rained last night out of nowhere. Like I've been checking the forecast almost daily, and I leave my windows cracked for ventilation... freakin rain! Completely by surprise. At least the day cooled down to the 90s.

[McGyver]

After the last few weeks, I'm relived for it to be "cool" in the low 80s in Philly. The e30 is going to need AC if it's going to be a 4 season car out here.

[roguetoaster]

Seems nice here on the bay in MD, maybe 83, with a low in the 60s tonight. Had a couple hot ones, but an ideal start to August.

[MR E30 325is]

31 consecutive days of temperatures of at least 110.

It has been hellish, to say the least.