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1997 Jeep Grand Cherokee - Laredo
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Now I'm not one to generally rave about things, especially cars. I drive 'em and dump 'em at the wreckers when I'm done. A car is the freedom to get from point a -> point b.
That said some cars are clearly better than others. The Volvo, for instance, 1990 240 DL, was the best car I've ever owned. Never complained, withstood Canadian Tire's worst assassins, and when finally it died it was more due to inconvenience and the lack of competent mechanics - it wasn't my will, not by a long shot.
That said, this Jeep has been a miracle. I mean, there was Colorado a couple of years ago - but since then, Nada, nothing, it's gotten me over 100, 000 KM, 20, 000 KM on logging roads that haven't been in service in 20 years, I could do you guys ads. I need a Go-Pro on the hood, you wouldn't believe it. I don't sometimes. And I'm hard on cars, but this baby, she keeps running. If it died tomorrow I would have gotten 10X my money out of it (That's not giving it permission, I got a few miles to do yet...).
The Volvo was good, but this jeep has been done a lot of roads the Volvo wouldn't even attempt. And it's always gotten me back. If you ever need a good, used vehicle, think the 1997 Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo, buy low miles, it's money well spent.
I heartily endorse this product.
Summer
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Rants
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And now, the Starbelly festival just passed, the summer's in full swing. The unending cycle of shit service, worse food that shows up cold and late, of tourists tired of high prices and disappointing selections, and I can only take their side. And there's no place to go. There are other restaurants, sure, but out here they all work the same formula, and to dine out is to resign yourself, admit defeat, you can't light the campfire, there's a fire ban, you just can't be bothered, and we're here to exploit you...
I feel guilty every time someone fucking tips, I feel their unexpressed disappointment, don't blame them, not a bit, and if there was someplace, anywhere to go that didn't capitalize on this, that could do a good job, valued a good job, I'd be outta here tomorrow, but there isn't, I know people in almost all the restaurants and it's the same shit over and over again. Lousy management, lousy staff, there's nobody out here that could come to a reasonable definition of "Hospitality", although there's plenty who'd try, and I bide my time...
7, maybe 10 or 12 weeks tops to go. Then? Anywhere but here.
The Party
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: People
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And, fully staffed now with the weekly turnover of transients, there's a party on the loading dock, all the new hires and the survivors from last year, precious few survivors, but the new hires don't know that, some, just here for a couple of weeks to get a check before moving on to the coast, others trying to lay down longer term plans, think that this might be their dream job, that they can stick it out here, the old-timers don't think to tell them, warn them, we need them here to lighten our own load but we all know, come fall, that 90% of us will be unemployed, and we're all hoping it's them that stay and not us...meanwhile, it's a beautiful summer night and they're all drunk on the loading dock, another 6 weeks left to the party...
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