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Showing posts with label Fang Fang. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fang Fang. Show all posts
June 27, 2009
May 10, 2009
More pictures of OUCH!
Gertie's front end, bumper, signal marker and quarter panel were damaged.
See how the hinge is super tight on between the front of the driver's door and the quarter panel? That's why her driver's door won't open anymore.
For comparison, here is the passenger's door and quarter panel. Note the difference.
Fang Fang was assaulted and strewn about the street. This is exactly how we found her when our breakfast was interrupted one fateful Wednesday morning.
(Front to rear: assaulting car, Fang Fang, Gertie)
This photo clearly shows how far Fang Fang was knocked off the street. Prior to being hit, she was in line with Gertie who is parked behind her.
We'll share more details when we're able. Stay tuned...
April 29, 2009
OUCH!
Disaster struck this morning as a lady in a 1998 Grand Am smashed into Fang Fang and Gertie as they sat innocently parked on the street. Fang Fang took most of the burden for her distant German cousin, sparing Gertie from what certainly would've been life-ending damage. Fang Fang however, will most likely be sent on to her Greater Reward.
More posts on this to follow.
June 11, 2008
June Snow Redux
For the incredulous, we present Ludwig and Fang Fang in their Winter clothes, 11 June 08.
May 26, 2008
Memorial Day drive
Since Mitch's abdomen isn't yet up to snuff, instead of camping we did some scouting in Fang Fang up toward Idaho on US 12. And if we can't take the monkey camping, we figure day trips are the next best thing.
This part of Montana is moose country, though we've yet to see one. Hopefully the first one we see won't be in the middle of the road. Or charging at us through the bush. People in the know know that moose are to be feared more than are bears.
We went to the top (Lolo Pass) and checked out the visitor's center on the MDT/PDT line. Mitch explained to Esmé about time zones, and he thinks she understood well enough (though of course she was upset about the inanity of daylight savings time).
The nature trail behind the building was still under a few feet of snow, so we couldn't take a hike.
On the way back down we stopped at some National Forest campgrounds to reconnoiter for future easy camping trips. There were plenty of good spots nestled in trees like these, and there are some good trails through the woods for walking with the bay-bay strapped to us.
Spring is here, and Melissa couldn't resist taking pictures of the flora.
It looks like we'll need to check out a book from the library to figure out what these are, and whether or not we can feed them to the baby.
This part of Montana is moose country, though we've yet to see one. Hopefully the first one we see won't be in the middle of the road. Or charging at us through the bush. People in the know know that moose are to be feared more than are bears.
We went to the top (Lolo Pass) and checked out the visitor's center on the MDT/PDT line. Mitch explained to Esmé about time zones, and he thinks she understood well enough (though of course she was upset about the inanity of daylight savings time). 
The nature trail behind the building was still under a few feet of snow, so we couldn't take a hike.
On the way back down we stopped at some National Forest campgrounds to reconnoiter for future easy camping trips. There were plenty of good spots nestled in trees like these, and there are some good trails through the woods for walking with the bay-bay strapped to us.Spring is here, and Melissa couldn't resist taking pictures of the flora.
It looks like we'll need to check out a book from the library to figure out what these are, and whether or not we can feed them to the baby.
December 8, 2006
2482 miles = 40 hours of driving
These aren't from a trip with Ludwig, but with Fang Fang (our Subaru). I thought they deserved a wider audience nonetheless.
We went to Ogallala (Nebr) for Thanksgiving, and went to Lincoln briefly on Saturday, thinking we could get up early Sunday and drive straight through to Missoula--1241miles, 20hours. Obviously a bit ambitious.
We didn't make it. In Sheridan (Wyoming) at 8pm, we checked the Montana Dept. of Roads website and it said the roads west of Big Timber were either snow-covered, ice-covered, or both. And there was fog. We spent the night in Billings and left the next morning. The pictures (click to enlarge) are of the roads we'd've faced at 330am had we pressed on.
These photos were all during heavy snow, which is why all the views look a bit foggy. The visibility was obviously pretty poor, but the views were incredibly impressive nonetheless.
Although we had both driven through the Rockies several times, neither of us remember driving through the Rockies during a snow storm. The travelling was relatively slow, but we were lucky enough to be about 3 cars back behind a snow plow while we were travelled the snowiest of the mountain roads.
During the "chain-up" areas along the I-90, we noticed all the 2 wheel drive cars and 18 wheelers pulled over to put chains on their vehicles. We didn't have chains (or studded snow tires) for Fang Fang, so we just kept driving. Even in these road conditions Fang Fang didn't have any problems negotiating it. In fact, I've been told by many Missoulians that chains and/or studded snow tires are completely unnecessary for Subarus, even during western Montana's long snowy winters.
We went to Ogallala (Nebr) for Thanksgiving, and went to Lincoln briefly on Saturday, thinking we could get up early Sunday and drive straight through to Missoula--1241miles, 20hours. Obviously a bit ambitious.
We didn't make it. In Sheridan (Wyoming) at 8pm, we checked the Montana Dept. of Roads website and it said the roads west of Big Timber were either snow-covered, ice-covered, or both. And there was fog. We spent the night in Billings and left the next morning. The pictures (click to enlarge) are of the roads we'd've faced at 330am had we pressed on.
These photos were all during heavy snow, which is why all the views look a bit foggy. The visibility was obviously pretty poor, but the views were incredibly impressive nonetheless.
Homestake Pass (6332ft)
Although we had both driven through the Rockies several times, neither of us remember driving through the Rockies during a snow storm. The travelling was relatively slow, but we were lucky enough to be about 3 cars back behind a snow plow while we were travelled the snowiest of the mountain roads.
I-90 over The Great Divide
During the "chain-up" areas along the I-90, we noticed all the 2 wheel drive cars and 18 wheelers pulled over to put chains on their vehicles. We didn't have chains (or studded snow tires) for Fang Fang, so we just kept driving. Even in these road conditions Fang Fang didn't have any problems negotiating it. In fact, I've been told by many Missoulians that chains and/or studded snow tires are completely unnecessary for Subarus, even during western Montana's long snowy winters.
More of the Boulder Batholith. In the last century or so, four square miles around this structure have yielded 20 billion pounds of copper. Efforts to discontinue minting pennies are fiercely opposed in and around the city of Butte.
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