I had that old commercial stuck in my head for some reason.

this one?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=aZrks-BPeLQ

No, that's NOT the one.

Just finished about 4 hrs on the tractor, clearing out some old piles of junk (fence posts, old sheet tin, RR ties,etc) here at the farm that the prior owner had stacked near the barn (and out of their sight) but, because Dad's house faces southeast, it's right in the view from his porch.

It's been bugging me for the last three years and today I decided enough is enough. Now, I have a huge burn pile and a trailer full of scrap metal for the recyclers. After a pass through there with the dozer to smooth things out it will be perfect.

It's a night during the week, there must be a little league game for someone.

New car, new subwoofer, new camera, new g/f(?) Get them all together for a road trip?
 

I asked today by email if she wants to go.

The destination would be San Francisco for one of my tours. Dee8go (with cmac) has been on one of them, last year.

This would be the idea (from MShop archives)

"San Francisco, seeing it from a native's viewpoint".

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I'm a 2nd gen. San Francisco native, and actually lived there till pretty recently, (over 25 years) so I know and love the place, and some of the secrets, and have given a whirlwind tour, in my car, to visiting friends, so are you ready? Here we go.....

First to the Coit tower and the WPA murals, then into little Italy (North Beach) for expresso & pastries and some amateur opera singing at Tosca's on Upper Grant Ave, a stop inside Alan Ginsberg's City Lights bookstore, then through old Chinatown, and through the Stockton St. tunnel to the Theatre District and Union Square. Up California St. to the top of Nob Hill, and a visit to the Fairmont Hotel and the Top o' the Mark. (Don't try this climb in a 240 Diesel, folks!!) A visit to Huntington Park and a look inside of Grace Cathedral. Over to Russian Hill for a 360 deg. photo op on the Vista Point, then flash down the "Crookedest Street in the World" and back up Russian Hill to plummet down the steepest Hill in the City.

Down Hyde Street to the Buena Vista Cafe, for a drink at the "Home of the Irish Coffee"
(invented 1953) and a trip through the Maritime Museum at Aquatic Park.
Then, a quick lap through Fort Mason, over to Doyle Drive and across the Golden Gate Bridge for more photos, then back into SF, through the Presidio and out to the Cliff House at Ocean Beach, to check out the abandoned Sutro Baths and the Camera Oscura, and the Musee Mechanique!

Then, over to the Haight Ashbury and through Golden Gate Park to see the buffalo, the aquarium, the Hall of Flowers, and the Japanese Tea Garden.

Then, up to the top of Twin Peaks for the best view there is in every direction, and then after that, through the premiere neighborhoods like Pacific Heights, Presidio Heights, St. Francis Woods, and the Russian Hill nieghborhoods and the secret Presidio Terrace, home of Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Israel)
the family/liberal/ labrador/Volvo/baby stroller neighborhood of Noe Valley, the Union Street Yuppieville and over to the Great Irish Way (Geary blvd) for a drink at Pat's Mad Hatter ("We cheat tourists & drunks") and then a visit to Japantown by Fillmore and Post, and through the gay ghetto at 18th & Castro...

And then, maybe it's time for dinner. Oh boy, pick your restaurant: Cambodian, French, Vietnamese, Peruvian, Polish, Swiss, Nicaraguan, Thai,
Salvadorean, Basque, German, Moroccan, Hawaiian, Burmese, Indian, Ethiopian, Hunan, Afghani, North Italian,House of Prime Rib, Max's Jewish, just about anything you'd please.

This driver WILL NOT go to Fisherman's Wharf the Disney Store, or ride on the Cable Cars. Not EVER!!! "First Dead" as they sometimes say in Peru

That $hit is for the typical tourists, I wouldn't EVER do it. You want that, you are on your own.

Ahh, I miss it. Come for a visit!!!
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1991 560 SEC, 125k, 199 black pearl metallic/261 black leather

You better be driving the SEC....

I still want to go up to Twin Peaks. I missed that on the first two trips. Actually, there's plenty that I haven't done there yet, so I'll have to make several more trips. I just like hanging out in SF.

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why would I bludgeon someone on the 2nd date with the fact I own a big black Mercedes coupe they have never seen???!!

Taking the '08 Subaru Outback for this one. Porque no?

You're going to pork WHO?

You guys should come back. As friends, I could show you around.

I know Twin Peaks REALLY well, I had a house there I that bought, and lived in, for about 15 years. I walked ALL over Twin Peaks, I know all of it.

As friends?

You mean that if we weren't friends, you would NOT show us around?

I still might.

Maybe.

But then, gas, parking, and parking TICKETS would be on *YOU*!!! http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/laughing006.gif

Okay, then we'll go in the Subaru instead of the SEC.