It feels like everything is changing—or maybe everything is just ripe for changing. My best intentions to get another...
Author Archive for: Marinus
Argh—I’ve got to fire my local auto-repair shop. I had high hopes for them after some reconnoitering visits showed a...
In July, I talked about a classic-car rally, one of few car rallies held in this decidedly strange year....
At the turn of this century, I was working at a dot-com in Seattle where our business model centered...
We used to talk about whether a car—or a motorcycle—was built with “49-state emissions” equipment, or “California emissions” equipment....
I like driving in the American West. I like the vistas, and seeing a hill ahead that you won’t...
Renée, my most significant other, is part of the organizing team for a classic car rally. The organizing team’s...
One thing led to another, and we awoke in Germany. Sharp memories are few for me in the period...
Went shopping—casually—for a replacement for our ’11 X5 last weekend. Maybe upgrade is the better word; the Gray Whale...
When I moved to the Colorado mountains last year, I kind of lucked out: My commute to the office,...
Decades ago, when I was first learning to drive in Western Kansas, unpaved roads were the rule. Out there...