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White Sand, Tularosa Basin
White Sands National Monument Park. A gigantic pile of white sand in the Tularosa Basin of south-central New Mexico. The National Park Service says: In addition to containing the world’s largest gypsum dunefield, including gypsum hearthmounds found nowhere else on earth, the park is home to the globe’s largest collection of Ice-Age fossilized footprints and…
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On the road again
It’s still winter in Minnesota. We got over a foot of snow a late last week, followed by a blast of below zero temps. So picking a day to leave can be challenging. We like to leave when it’s above freezing for a couple of days. It’s much easier to de-winterize at home instead of…
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It was supposed to be simple
I have three USB-power devices stuck to my dash or windshield – a Garmin nav, an old phone I use as an OBD-II dashboard, and a dash cam. We also sometimes need to charge our cell phones while driving. Three plus two = five USB power cords hanging off two lighter sockets, both down by…
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Observations on Driving in Italy
“In Italy, all the drivers are experts. The rest are dead” When I first started driving in Italy (30 years ago) I was advised that the Italians drove by a strict set of rules, but those rules were not necessarily the same as the ones posted on signage or printed in drivers’ handbooks. For example…
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I flew to Italy and drove a Lamborghini
A Lamborghini … Tractor. Everyone knows that real Lamborghini’s pull plows, right? 😁 The official story is that in the early 1960’s when Ferruccio Lamborghini, who had been manufacturing tractors for some years, found out that the clutch in his Ferrari was the exact same part as he used in his tractors he figured that…
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Michael Janke 