OT. EVs For Rural Drivers

[rbowman]

Maybe because politicians involve themselves in technology that they don't have a prayer of understanding?

[rbowman]

Hazmat loads can't go through the tunnel and have to go over the pass. Nothing like communing with the mountain goats. Wolf Creek Pass and Monarch passes are scenic too.

[Retirednoguilt]

I was talking about the habits of some of the regular contributors to this newsgroup; not about how our government should be or could be modified. Your comment, immediately above, is another example of continuing to introduce politics when my question was another way of saying "why can't we all just keep to the topic of the thread?".

[gfretwell]

I was disappointed with Wolf Creek Pass. It was a 4 (6?) lane with a pretty modest grade in Colorado sort of way. It certainly wasn't the "37 miles of hell" CW McCall promised me. I managed to avoid crashing into the feed store in downtown Pagosa Springs.

[Marilyn Manson]

Ever drive RT 89A into Jerome AZ? 158 curves in 12 miles. Jerome is a really cool town. Well worth the drive. The Grand Hotel at the top of this picture was, IIRC, the

4th hospital built during the mining times of the early 1900's. They had to keep building new hospitals - up higher on the mountain each time - because the mines kept causing fault shifts and busting up the old ones.

Continue past Jerome, up a dirt road to the Gold King Mine & Ghost Town. A really cool place to spend a few hours. Well, at least back in 2018 it was.

We were at the mining museum, now located in the mansion that the mine owners lived in, where they have a USGS seismograph way down in a sub-sub-basement with a display upstairs. I was standing in front of it when it did this:

I took that picture and showed it to the staff at the front counter. They all got excited and came running. Then they logged into their USGS system and found out that I had just witnessed the local impact of a magnitude 7.3 earthquake in Venezuela, roughly

3500 miles away. Pretty neat!

[gfretwell]

Dunno but we look for roads like that. We love a windy mountain road. That one from Big Sur to the Army base is a cool ride going up the side of this mountain.

Rt 16 in the black hills can get exciting too when a logging truck is coming the other way.

I always buy the insurance and beat a rental SUV like I stole it.