Random Ramblings from the Garrity Family
We visited two parks when we went to the Big Island in 2007. Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park Hawai’i Volcanoes surrounds Kilauea, the world’s most active volcano, and the smallest of the three mountains which...
There is one place in the national park system that we visit over and over again. In fact, we’ve been going there since before it was part of the national park system. The Boston...
Dinosaur National Monument is famous for the Douglass Quarry. This was the site of an enormous excavation in 1909 which supplied many of the fossils at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh. Unfortunately, the month...
Arches National Park is a park that we’ve actually been to twice. Mike & I visited Arches on our honeymoon in 1991. We returned there in 2006 along with Tom and Peter. Here is...
In honor of the wonderful new Ken Burns series that starts tonight, we thought we’d do a series of posts about our memories of some of our favorite parks. We’re not going to be...
This is an interesting read in today’s climate. I was trolling around in Google Books, and I ran into an issue of The Automobile that is entirely about electric cars. The interesting thing is...
Have you been following the recent trade squabble between the US & China? The US imposed a tariff on Chinese tires, now China is threatening to respond with a tariff on US chickens. It...
A discussion of hub motors (ala the 1899 Lohner-Porsche) on Ned’s blog, got me thinking about inboard brakes. Traditionally, making the engine (or motor) unsprung has been considered a bad idea because of ride...
Do you know what congruent numbers are? They are integers which are the areas of rational right triangles. A rational right triangle is a right triangle for which none of the 3 sides are...
A little bit more Lime Rock in the news this week. Hemmings Motor News had this really nice interview with John Fitch. John was an important part of Lime Rock (and all sports car...
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