We need the snow to stop
02-14-2015, 12:19 AM
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Deserves to be on the road and in the sun. Great looking car and color.
02-14-2015, 01:18 AM
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We have the opposite problem here in Tahoe. It is the worst snow season yet with less than 100 inches so far! Today was 64F. On the bright side, taking the GT3 out tomorrow!
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02-14-2015, 01:22 AM
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64? That's amazing.
02-14-2015, 01:28 AM
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02-14-2015, 01:45 AM
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One must do the beautiful 150 mile drive up Hwy 89 from Lake Tahoe to Lake Almanor and back ....my favorite sports car drive , hands down, in all of California ( and I have driven every urban and remote rural road in 40+ yrs in this huge state ) .....it is a scenic , well lit by the sun and is a fast twisty forested Sierra Nevada with excellent sight lines mixed with parts that look like wide open cattle ranch areas of Colorado Rockies . Even in mid summer , there is usually not a car in front or behind in my rear view mirror to the horizon since it is far from populated areas ( 4-6 hrs from the Bay Area ) and very few roads intersect it . The road surface always seems "new" since heavy trucks and campers are rare.
Its been warm all winter in California ....currently 50s here at the shore of Lake Tahoe , 70s back in the Bay Area and 80s/90s down in SoCal
Its been warm all winter in California ....currently 50s here at the shore of Lake Tahoe , 70s back in the Bay Area and 80s/90s down in SoCal
Last edited by MKW; 02-14-2015 at 02:01 AM.
02-14-2015, 02:05 AM
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You are done with Mulholland in minutes, with cops and local traffic everywhere ..it is a " cut through " ridgetop commuter road in the geographic middle of LA between two areas each populated with millions of local residents
The Hwy 89 drive I described is like driving Mulholland for 5 hrs !
It is a special treat mainly for those of us who have second homes at Lake Tahoe , where we can start the drive at the best time right after breakfast with morning sun from behind you hi-lighting the scenery on the way north and again with the afternoon sun behind you hi-lighting the way home glare free !
I am driving the route part way to cute Graeagle tomorrow morning , even without the Porsche, for lunch and antiquing with the family
check the pics below to see what the scenery of the drive looks like :
http://www.playgraeagle.com/town/gallery.html
The Hwy 89 drive I described is like driving Mulholland for 5 hrs !
It is a special treat mainly for those of us who have second homes at Lake Tahoe , where we can start the drive at the best time right after breakfast with morning sun from behind you hi-lighting the scenery on the way north and again with the afternoon sun behind you hi-lighting the way home glare free !
I am driving the route part way to cute Graeagle tomorrow morning , even without the Porsche, for lunch and antiquing with the family
check the pics below to see what the scenery of the drive looks like :
http://www.playgraeagle.com/town/gallery.html
Last edited by MKW; 02-14-2015 at 02:34 AM.
02-14-2015, 02:42 AM
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most current Californians dont know these areas and many more like them even exist as they never stray from the Coast and if they do go into the High Sierra , it is to only to the crowded national parks or Lake Tahoe's tourist areas
this is what most of California really looks like away from the huge congested coastal metro areas and the vast bland agricultural Central Valley
we natives who know the hidden gems of the interiors of California , still unspoiled and as if it were 75 yrs ago like to keep them very secret ...so .....shhhhhhh!
this is what most of California really looks like away from the huge congested coastal metro areas and the vast bland agricultural Central Valley
we natives who know the hidden gems of the interiors of California , still unspoiled and as if it were 75 yrs ago like to keep them very secret ...so .....shhhhhhh!