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Re: On Sunday... [jae5]

by 210delray on Tue May 16 12:20:48 PDT 2006

I had never heard of Kangaroo until it replaced the former Etna station. But a poster here said that Kangaroo is a convenience chain based in the South, so obviously they're moving a little farther north. Similarly, Sheetz is a large regional chain based in Altoona, PA. The "service stations" as we knew them are rapidly becoming extinct -- now it's gas, food, beer, coffee, cigarettes, etc. Luckily, they've kept the restrooms.

Re: Gasoline Preferences... [lemko]

by 210delray on Wed Aug 24 20:54:57 PDT 2005

Our local Etna station (you know, like the volcano) just recently switched its name to Kangaroo! (I'm not making this up.) It is a convenience store, sandwiched between Chevron and BP stations.

Back from Italy

by kens on Thu Jul 18 12:06:08 PDT 2002

Hi gang, I've been quiet over the last week because I was in Italy for a last-minute business trip that came up. One of my appointments were in Sicily so my wife and I decided to take a couple extra days and live a little. We spent most of our time in Sicily. We hit quite a few places including Palermo, Mondello, Monreale, Catania, Taormina, Mt. Etna and Siracusa. We've been to mainland Italy before, but Sicily was quite different. For one, the weather is A LOT warmer. Day time highs were in the 100's with incredible amounts of humidity. It's no wonder why Italians come here to lounge by the pool/beach by day before venturing around once it cools off at night. The roads/logistics there are a lot more chaotic. Sicilian cities make Rome look like a utopia of orderliness. The food, while a lot simpler, showcases the excellent local seafood. Also, Sicily is known for excellent wood fired oven pizza which was available everywhere. Finally, there's plenty of beaches and beautiful vistas. In a way, it reminded me of a much larger version of Rhodes Island in Greece where we visted several years ago. While we were in Sicily, I rented a cool little Alfa Romeo 147 turbodiesel: http://www.alfa147.it/ It was a metallic beige colored 5-door hatchback, brand new. The 1.9L turbodisel had plenty of zip to it and kept us up with the German makes on the autostrada. Our 147 came with all the bells and whistles including ASR, ABS, side air-bags, A/C (we needed that badly) and a decent sound system. The 147 turned on a dime, which was great for weaving through traffic. Although the trunk was relatively small, the rear seats on the 147 were suprisingly roomy. Driving in Sicily was a little challenging. Stopping at red lights is optional there, but other than that, it was nothing any native New Yorker couldn't handle. Actually, it was following the tiny little roadsigns in cities and towns that was the hard part. After four days of vacationing in Sicily, I had one day of business there and then another in Milan on the way back home. Ken

Learning to drive a stick from the foothils of Mt Etna to San Francisco

by galaxygrrl on Sun Feb 10 02:38:56 PST 2002

As you might know, it's much cheaper to rent a stick in Europe, so my boyfriend and I rented one during our trip to Italy for my 30th birthday. Well, he showed up a few days late and I was left driving the stick by myself and I could barlewy drive the thing As you might know, southern Italians don't believe in traffic law or patience on the road. They are by any reasonable standard aggressive, speedy, and a bit insane when it comes to driving. So, after 27 hours of traveling I arriving in Sicily, rent a car and I'm fine driving for a day on the two hour lesson by boyfriend gave me. The problem arose when I ventured off to Taramina a tourist town on a 3000 foot hill overlooking the Mediterranean. To approach Taramina, needed to drive up the tall hill, it's actually the a foot hill of Mount Etna. It's August and it seems every European is on vacation in Taramina. I'm driving up the hill with no problems, but the line of cars moving up the hill stops. There are tons of cars behind me. What I particularly notice is after two cars behind me is a medieval stone wall (because the road made hairpin turn so the road goes off in another direction). Nobody had every taught me the emergency break trick to start a car on a hill with a stick and I could not start the car. I tried and tried and could not make it work. Finally a nice man from another car drove my car up the hill. (I felt like a dumb tourist with a blinking sign over my head that said "fool".) So, then I go look for my hotel. My problem was the streets were one way, narrow, and medieval with lots of tourists running across them. Since I could not drive a stick well, what I did do? I accidently drove back down he hill on the one way street. As approach the hill again, I had great trepidation and I start taking deep breaths. There are tons of cars, and we are all traveling up the hill in a line. A bus stops, so all the cars behind it stop. I'm stuck in a tunnel this time. I try the emergency brake trick, but I could not get first gear to catch and the brakes over heat. My car is smoking up the tunnel. Finally the nice policeman comes to my car and drives me to the hotel. I felt so ridiculous.(All this to save a few hundred dollars.) The rest of the trip was fine, my stick driving skills improved and my boyfriend showed up. As few years later, after I moved to San Francisco -- a unfriendly place for a standard transmission -- I bought a stick. I forgot everything I had leaned in Italy. It took me about 6 months of driving up and down the hills of the Bay Area to find out I love driving a stick. The car with a stick was bought back by the manufacturer under the lemon law last month, so this time, I could really enjoy drving a variety of cars with a standard tranny (the winner is the Acura RSX S-type). I was set to by a stick, but then I sat in traffic one to many times trying to go over the Golden Gate Bridge needing to start on a upward slope in traffic. I thought to myself there is a better way -- slushbox, no fun to drive, but better for traffic. My days of driving a stick are far from over (an 911 cabriolet has my name on it one day), but in the Bay Area with horrible traffic and hills, I prefer the automatic for my every day car.

Gee I somewhat agree with spoog

by cpousnr on Thu Jun 15 13:48:02 PDT 2000

Yes the worst enemy of an off-roader is an irresponsible off-roader. BUT and irresponsible hiker can be just as bad by: -Failure to follow posted trails. -Allowing their dogs to run free(Boulder just passed a law that man is their "guardian" not owner, kind of a weird attitude. -Irresponsible fire use, like NOT in an fire circle(heck I learned that in Scouts, an organization that some want to see disbanded. -Not taking out the trash hauled in. As long as 4 wheelers stay on the assigned roads, maintain the roads to allow good access, reducing the need to go off the beaten path, things will be ok. But I do not think, like in the case of Al Unser, who was fined 10K when he got lost and crossed over onto Wilderness area while trying to get back to the approved trail, that people should be hammered for making a slight mistake. Take the case of cross county skiers that OFTEN, WILLFULLY depart approve trails, cause sometimes deadly snow slides and force local rescue groups large sums of money to find them. And no fines are ever issued in those cases. Heck last year they had a group of people that went up over Guinella Pass, when it was reported that high winds and snow were coming into the area. The cost on that was 10K AND searching for them caused the officials to tramp through the tundra area, causing some damage too. So just do not jump on the loggers, guys trying to make a living and off-roader trying to enjoy a sport. The so called nature lovers, hikers, etc cause their share too. Again, if you believe it or not, nature does heal itself. Always has, always will. Show me a case that that has never happened and you cannot cite Exxon Valdes, Mt Pinatubo, Mt Etna, Mt St. Helens, or even the oil platforms (now ruled illegal, like them high gas prices?) off the CA coast.