Peter Minde
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Why didn't you take your helicopter?
Tales from The Road
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Why didn't you take your helicopter?
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My mom asked me if we could fly.
FIFY
Thought ya might be heading to the Lax games.
They’re playing 2 today at Hofstra in Hempstead.
Big Red v Spiders.
Orange v Tigers.
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The line between VT and NH was training on 87 when I came through northern Saratoga and southern Warren counties around 4pm.
I drove right in it for 20 minutes. I could have stopped but moving at 25 mph with everyone else felt safer then pulling over. I thought being stopped on the side could increase my chances of getting hit. Not sure if that was true, but that was what I did.
In those 20 minutes, I'd say 4 inches of rain fell on my car and the vis was really bad, at times almost zero. I was praying that with much water coming into the engine, it would continue to function, electrically. I was also hoping that there would be no hail. The rain was so hard, I was sure that hail would total the car.
A few people stopped under an overpass, but that also scared me. The guy on the
OMG.
I drove right in it for 20 minutes. I could have stopped but moving at 25 mph with everyone else felt safer then pulling over. I thought being stopped on the side could increase my chances of getting hit. Not sure if that was true, but that was what I did.
In those 20 minutes, I'd say 4 inches of rain fell on my car and the vis was really bad, at times almost zero. I was praying that with much water coming into the engine, it would continue to function, electrically. I was also hoping that there would be no hail. The rain was so hard, I was sure that hail would total the car.
A few people stopped under an overpass, but that also scared me. The guy on the
OMG.
Peter Minde
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I drove through some of that, southbound, earlier in the afternoon. For a hot minute, there were hailstones.
DomB
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Did a quick trip to Montreal and headed home. Highly recommend. Side note: the exchange rate is favorable right now (we just got lucky with that).
About 800 miles. Fuel cost of $115 - high speed charge up and down and a top off at hotel L2. The Rivian charger in Queensbury is perfecto location wise - 2.5 hours from Montreal and 3.5 from home.
Man, the food in Montreal is fresh, clean and good. My wife put together a mini walking food tour map for the fam in the Miles End area: gnocchi, Montreal bagels, Ukrainian perogis, ice cream (including home made soft serve which I have yet to find in the US). The bagel place (Fairmont bagels) happened to have the best pretzel I have tasted.
We went to Jean Talon market (sp?) a cool open air market. Had some very good ‘prosciutto’ from Quebec ham cured there that therefore cannot be called prosciutto.
One night homemade hand pulled noodle place where I had Dan Dan noodles medium spice (reminds me of bolognese without the tomatoes and add chili). So good.
Very walkable city with lots of great places to run near the old port area. Did 9 miles Saturday morning in some drizzle and was pretty much alone though I saw a big group (maybe 50) about to start a run. From that area ran onto what I think is one of the landfill islands adjacent by an industrial area. Felt very walking dead/zombie apocalypse as it is picturesque and overgrown there.
Our stay was at china town (points hack at holiday inn) across the street from the metro, five minutes walk from down town, 10 to old town and 10 to old port. Subways and buses ran at least every 10 minutes. The china town is small and quality but also a great spot to get to other areas of the city. We didn’t need to drive over a 4 day stay.
Fast forward to a sunny Sunday and the old port area was quite the people watching operation. We shot over to Mont Royal (their Central Park but overlooking the city). Fun time.
About 800 miles. Fuel cost of $115 - high speed charge up and down and a top off at hotel L2. The Rivian charger in Queensbury is perfecto location wise - 2.5 hours from Montreal and 3.5 from home.
Man, the food in Montreal is fresh, clean and good. My wife put together a mini walking food tour map for the fam in the Miles End area: gnocchi, Montreal bagels, Ukrainian perogis, ice cream (including home made soft serve which I have yet to find in the US). The bagel place (Fairmont bagels) happened to have the best pretzel I have tasted.
We went to Jean Talon market (sp?) a cool open air market. Had some very good ‘prosciutto’ from Quebec ham cured there that therefore cannot be called prosciutto.
One night homemade hand pulled noodle place where I had Dan Dan noodles medium spice (reminds me of bolognese without the tomatoes and add chili). So good.
Very walkable city with lots of great places to run near the old port area. Did 9 miles Saturday morning in some drizzle and was pretty much alone though I saw a big group (maybe 50) about to start a run. From that area ran onto what I think is one of the landfill islands adjacent by an industrial area. Felt very walking dead/zombie apocalypse as it is picturesque and overgrown there.
Our stay was at china town (points hack at holiday inn) across the street from the metro, five minutes walk from down town, 10 to old town and 10 to old port. Subways and buses ran at least every 10 minutes. The china town is small and quality but also a great spot to get to other areas of the city. We didn’t need to drive over a 4 day stay.
Fast forward to a sunny Sunday and the old port area was quite the people watching operation. We shot over to Mont Royal (their Central Park but overlooking the city). Fun time.
jasonwx
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Excellent info
We are thinking of a similar trip
DomB
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The bagel place was Fairmont bagles. The gnocchi place is almost next door. The Ukrainian place is like 150 feet up the road. Ice cream everywhere.
I forget the noodle place name but I think it was the only hand pulled noodle shop in china town. Also in china town was a Vietnamese cafe with a pretty good bahn mi.
The holiday inn was across the street from the place d armes orange metro. From there it was two stops to an interchange with two other metro lines.
Really good donut shop too closer to Mount Royal that I can look up if you want.
