The Road through your Windshield...

Heading up thru the Black Hills by Mt. Rushmore.

 

Took my wife and son for a long drive down Pacific Coast Highway. We needed to clear our heads and honor our beloved beagle Lucy that we had to have put down the day before, she had a very long happy life.

 

Hey LBCD,
Condolences... ours is 77 and is beginning to act weird, too. Old age, I guess. that drive is wonderful. El Morro is always a sight for sore, tired eyes. It is always a great drive any time of the year, driving either way. I drive the coast every chance I get, going to and from that whole area. The 405/I-5 is not conducive to happy motoring since 1962.

Jnaki
Great looking photographs...kudos... The backseat driver has good eyes and composition. Also, I see that the "air conditioning" is on full blast.

 

Aussie Rod on Greybeard Tour LARS

 

Greybeard Tour to Nethercutt Museum

 

Aussie Deuce Run

 

Aussie Duece Run

 

Hey, that's my car! What a great time, Aussie Rodney riding with me on the way to the Nethercutt Museum in 2014

 

77? I'd say so.

 

From the seat of the Nomad on the Hot Rod Hundred a couple weeks ago

 

Thanks for the cool pics guys - scenery seems to look better through vintage glass!

A couple of moldy, grainy pics from the pre-digital days: Bicentennial year 1976, a buddy and me somewhere along I-90 in southern Minnesota...


Heading home after a weekend campout, circa 1983:

Scenery wasn't breathtaking, but I think the ride made up for it.

 

Rain X view complete with TP defrost

 

We were following U in our 1932 Rent a Car. We are coming over again for LARS
Rod is also coming over and will be travelling with Greybeard again from NC
See ya there
Noel

 

on the road

 

on the way to the Heap Herders show last sat. 4-21-17

 

Yeeooowwww! What did you hit, a pterodactyl?

 

Bixby Knolls in Long Beach

 

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The other night! In the Roadster.

 

Yesterday morning on the way to Steel in Motion. HRP

 

Last night in the Coupe!

 

Kuhio Hwy near Hanalei, Kauai
Hello,

You meet the nicest people on a country side highway in Kauai. Back when we stayed in Hanalei for a month one summer with friends, we drove our “new/old” Rambler 4 door surf vehicle all over the island searching for the best surf spot. We found a few places where we were able to surf “alone” with only 3 people out. It was memorable to say the least.


10 ft.+ tall sugar cane cave just off of the Kuhio Highway, North Shore, Kauai.
On the Kuhio Highway that runs from one side (eastern to northern) of the island to the other, it goes from rural to “towny,” to rural, to city, to “towny,” and back to the countryside version of a highway. It stops at a beautiful quiet northern beach made famous for surviving the huge winter swell waves of 1969 on Kauai. But, as you drive on the northern coastline, cows take precedence on the roads. If a rancher is moving his herd, one has to wait until they are finished moving.

Since the lifestyle in this part of Kauai is so slow and low key, it was fun watching everything work together to get along. The local guy in the 4 door primer 55 sedan just missed the full blocking of the highway. This was a long time ago, but I am sure the traffic is a lot more today.

Jnaki

We stayed with our friends from Long Beach and our friend had quite a story about the approaching waves at this beach cove (KEE BEACH) at the end of the highway. At one time during the winter, He said that one local was watching the approaching swell from the parking area. He decided at the last minute to make a run for it to the highest coconut tree instead of getting trapped against the cliff side in the huge surging waves rolling into the beach.

The surge took his pickup truck down the highway about ½ mile. The guy climbed to the top of the 20 foot tall tree, but still had to strap himself to the tree while the water surged above his head. When we were there two years later, the beach was so pristine and calm it was hard to see the situation arising back then. It was summer and the swell direction was coming from the south east, not the north.

But, the trees on the cliff did survive the complete underwater surge and pounding. The guy’s truck? It was banged around, broken windows, and lots of water inside of the cab. Crazy people do crazy things, sometimes…

Kee Beach, Northwest, Kauai
Excerpts from news service in Hawaii, December 1969:

“…The peak of the largest swell in a decade began hitting the North Shore of Oahu this afternoon and could continue through the night, prolonging anxiety for some shoreline residents and building excitement for throngs of big-wave watchers.

The National Weather Service predicted 40- to 50-foot surf for north- and west-facing shores of Niihau and Kauai. Roads on all islands remain open with sand and surf lapping on to a few shore-front roads on Kauai and Oahu.

"It’s almost like a tsunami surge, but for a long period of time," Roads remain open on Kauai, however, state civil defense officials said there were reports of waves washing over Weke Road on Kauai’s north shore near Hanalei.

Surf began building rapidly just after midnight on Kauai and Niihau, and will remain above the warning level through Thursday night.

All north shore beaches, from Anahola to Kee Beach, on Kauai remained today closed until further notice.

Surf for the north and west-facing shores of Niihau and Kauai, and north-facing shores of Oahu, Molokai and Maui: 40 to 50 feet.”

 

Waiting to turn, on a rod run with friends over the weekend.




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Descending into the Wenatchee valley I call home today Temperature at near 100 degrees. You can see the air conditioner at full open. Sorry it's a lowsy picture but it is through the windshield.