13 Sep 2014 Orinda Auto Show

Good turnout today, lots of interesting cars including one marque I've never encountered, a 1964 Apollo 5000 GT, built in Oakland!

1960's Ghia in the wild

1972 BMW 2002tii

Solid tires with added lightness

Ran across this interesting combination cherry-picker / payloader today in Brooklyn, the cool thing were the non-inflatable tires. I like the added lightness (and probably compliance) of all of the holes in the tires. Also, somebody left their keys on one of them.

Day ... um ... July 26th! Cortland NY to Brooklyn NY via the Catskills

Somehow our 300mi drive today took 9hrs. Not sure why, but we are now safely in Brooklyn.

Not Brooklyn

Eagle River MI -> Marquette MI -> Manitowoc WI -> Mt. Pleasant MI -> London ON

A few days on the way to NYC.
Eagle River MI: left Monday evening, beautiful day (80F)
Marquette MI: bit of rain in the morning, decided to head south to visit my aunt in Wisconsin
Manitowoc WI: took S.S. Badger across Lake Michigan to Ludington MI. It used to carry rail cars to avoid the long turn around the southern end of the lake. 4hrs on the ship, it ingested about 100 cars and 4 semi-trucks, one of which had been transporting livestock and the smells reminded us of that the whole trip. Nobody fell overboard.
Mt. Pleasant MI: about 100mi in from Ludington after the ferry, through the Manistee Forest, lots of basketball players.
London ON: border crossing at Sarnia was uneventful, lots of trucks queued up, short line for passenger cars. Super nice houses north of Detroit along Lake Huron coast, we drove Hwy 25 for a bit.

Some final iron moths and other signs of the north