More fun than a sleigh

If you are 6 years old, an ATV is a good alternative to a sleigh.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRpzoQ1HSx0

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bil

It's exiting to get a packet! Even if you know what's inside. Today I got a delivery from a company with a name starting P and ending with addock. This is what I found inside. A new airspring to the Disco and a full set of gaskets to the Series2. The box also contained a lot of cardbord filling which my daughter tasted with delight.

The little girl has said her first real words now. Last week she started with 'hello', a word she loves to say. Yesterday the next word came, 'bil', which in Swedish means 'car'. Today the word bil has been frequently used to her fathers delight. You may notice in the picture that the indoctrination starts early. :)Yesterday I got lost. I took a ride in the afternoon and drove some forest roads. Suddenly I had no idea where I was and the road came to an end, so I turned around to drive back, but at some point took a wrong turn. This was fun since I had a time to catch. However, I found a bigger road after a while which lead to a familiar highway at a totally different place than I expected.

Again I'd like to quote Sally; 'Cars didn't drive on it to make great time, they drove on it to have a great time.'

like and dis

I really, really appreciate the electrically heated windscreen. I also like TC.

I don't like those city SUV 18" rims in the winter. They get clogged with snow, that becomes ice, and the car behaves like a centrifuging washing machine. I really would like to drive on 16" steel rims next winter instead.

How did they think when they designed the rear bumper? To open the rear door you have to shovel the bumper first, since it's a perfect shelf for snow to rest at. Then you open the door, scratching the underside against ice. Now and then you have to knock the ice of with some kind of tool. Today, doing this work, I broke the plastic moulding which had frosen into non elasticy.

Othewise, it's extremely meditative to drive along the roads these days when there's almost no traffic. Strangely enough you don't bother really that you have to spend ten minutes to go around the car peeling off clogged snow from the underside every time you park at home...

It's so much more than a car...

go snow

Heavy snowfall during the night made morning traffic fun in a Land Rover. Only the main roads were cleared, but that doesn't bother us really. It's Saturday, so there wern't many people out. I found the first stuck car about a hundred meters from home. Since I was in a hurry, I had to leave him in his struggle. After my first commission this morning, I found the road blocked by an abandonned car. So, I had to reverse to find another way. I reversed for about a hundred meters, when I saw a car with flashing hazard lights. I looked forward to use my survival kit in the back, but strangely also this car was abandonned with no one in sight. Well TC was enough to help me plogh an uphill slope and escape the "chaos".

I found many reasons to get out driving today. But in the afternoon many ways had been cleared. But now (ten in the evening) it's snowing again, so I look forward to another day filled with errands you just have to do... :)

range

When you're doing a cold start...

...it's nice to dream away for a while.

whitelaneing

My friend an his children in their BM 350 Boxer, I and another friend with our children in our Disco went for a short whitelaneing in the thawing Sunday noon.

We, in the disco, had the advantage of heating, cosy leather seats and a niose free ride. The ones in the tractor appriciated other things, I suppose :)

But, road tires are not of much help when you leave the main road. Diff lock and Traction Control are not of much help either when there is no traction. So, we ended up being towed by the tractor. Next winter we need a more aggressive pattern!

Anyhoo, greed fools wisdom. I changed a joint in my prop shaft a while ago. Of course I should have changed all three. I have felt a small vibration the latest weeks, and back on the main road again, after all the wheel spin this thay, the next prop shaft joint gave in. So, now I'm back in two wheel drive again for a while...

:)

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"Cars didn't drive on it to make great time, they drove on it to have a great time."

/Sally