Did you go up inside?
We did on our Route 66 trip a few years back.
One of my favorite parts of that trip was walking across the abandoned "Chain of Rocks Bridge" upriver from there.
No time. Had overnight only but hotel was adjacent to it so we could check it before bailing in the morning.
Today, bailing on beautiful San Luis Obispo. Nice Peruvian dinner last night. But a drive up the coast and back to "normal" life.
Location: Really deep in the heart of South California Gender:
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Dec 23, 2024 - 7:33am
Steely_D wrote:
Did you go up inside?
We did on our Route 66 trip a few years back.
One of my favorite parts of that trip was walking across the abandoned "Chain of Rocks Bridge" upriver from there.
Location: Really deep in the heart of South California Gender:
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Dec 22, 2024 - 8:58pm
Steely_D wrote:
Packing up to bug out tomorrow and drive up 101 from SLO to the CA Bay Area and home.
On the road for about 12 days and saw cool things almost every day. Had never caught the St Louis arch (like the Grand Canyon, pictures don't convey the magnitude). Saw the unimpressive Cadillac Ranch, but the cooler (to this nerd) Helium Time Columns Monument. The fantastic red rocks of Sedona. A lovely day outside Albuquerque. Saw thehouse in Fairborn Ohio where I lived until I was eight. (Decrepit now, maybe abandoned? Whole neighborhood has seen much better times...)
Packing up to bug out tomorrow and drive up 101 from SLO to the CA Bay Area and home.
On the road for about 12 days and saw cool things almost every day. Had never caught the St Louis arch (like the Grand Canyon, pictures don't convey the magnitude). Saw the unimpressive Cadillac Ranch, but the cooler (to this nerd) Helium Time Columns Monument. The fantastic red rocks of Sedona. A lovely day outside Albuquerque. Saw thehouse in Fairborn Ohio where I lived until I was eight. (Decrepit now, maybe abandoned? Whole neighborhood has seen much better times...)
My sister's dishwasher crapped out and she said they couldn't get parts anymore to which I call bs: she just wanted a new dishwasher which makes sense because she's getting new cabinets this summer anyway so why try to fix the old one that's almond-and-woodgrain?
So it was set to arrive yesterday while I was skiing and I said "don't pay for installation, I'll do it on SundayâMerry Christmas!"
It came in, though, and she and her son pulled out the old one, saved most of the parts from it that you're supposed to save, got the new one wired up, plugged it in, and her boy got electrocuted and said "I'm done!" So then my aunt and uncle, visiting for the holiday, came over to help and got the cord wired in right, hooked it up to the water but the brackets to clip it to the countertop were way too low so they went back to the garage and engineered a block of wood to capture the brackets but it wasn't working out and they were frustrated so they went home.
I got over there to do the installationânote that on a bad day a dishwasher installation takes 10 minutesâ and was dismayed to see parts all over and the cobbled together fix but after a while I sorted out what was going on, took out the block of wood, removed the brackets from it and bent them back to their original shape... so finally had it basically laid out and ready to install. So from that point on it was about 3 minutes. The brackets clip to the dishwasher, you push the thing into place, and run a screw thru the bracket into the underside of the counter.
So anyway I'm still not buying my sister anything for Christmas.
I'm so glad I learned life skills through the years so I can do pretty much everything myself.
Or look it up on YouTube.
I have replaced a number of dishwashers in my time. Not something to take a particular pride in, but I was confident that I could tell her to go out for an hour or two, swap out the machine in 5 minutes, then drink her beer and watch football until she came home whereupon I would say I just finished up. But no, now she knows it was a quick job but my saving grace is it took me 30 minutes to undo what had been done, and so by the time I left I had been there for most of an hour so Merry Christmas.
