Another Site You Should Definitely Check Out

Repeat posts are redundant; pretty easy to wrap my head around. And I'm sure none of you, my audience, would appreciate very much. So instead I'm using this opportunity to spotlight/plug/what-have-you the other exquisite blog I contribute to, but that is ultimately run by the talented/suave/almost-as-car-saavy-as-myself gentleman known as Asa Hendrick; the blog is AsphaltAtl and it is on this very platform (at blogger.com). So basically, if you're interested in viewpoints other than my own, which you should be, then you absolutely should go give it a look. Have a pleasant evening, and look for a posting here about wagons later tonight or tomorrow!

Kompressing Your Beach Vacation

I’ve never really been the type to enjoy long vacations. A couple summers ago, for instance, I met a couple kids who would spend the entire month of July at their parents' condo in Destin. While this may sound like an ideal getaway to some, I personally have never been able to endure longer than a few days of beach vacation. Maybe it’s my personality, maybe it’s the people I’ve gone with (mostly my family). Whatever it is, I know that I can only lay in the sand and play in the surf for so many days until I’m absolutely sick of it and want to go home.

You can guess, and you'd be right, that day trips are just the sort of thing that’s right for me. So today my roommate and I decided to take the hour long drive to Tybee Island, a destination I visited not too long ago; documented in a previous posting, actually. Anyways, we spent a few hours playing in the surf before drying off, going to dinner, then going home. And I have to say, it was just enough beach for me.

And this brings me to the whole point of this posting. I know, it only took a whole two paragraphs, but hey, we’re here. Anyways, as no surprise to anyone who knows me, I spotted a favorite car of mine and had to snap a picture. The car in question was a Mercedes E55 AMG, a car I have always coveted. This car stands out to me because it's a car I believe I could own and drive every day without having a single complaint. The brutal powerplant coupled with it's luxurious nature makes it just the sort of car I yearn for.

Sure, I could easily buy a car with more impressive performance and handling specs for the same price, but I feel like these hardcore performance cars become sort of like my beach vacation. They’re awesome and exciting the first few days, but after that, I just want to go home.

Lift Kits: A Case Study

Since I'm the kind of guy who always seems to be questioning the thought processes of others, it should come as no surprise that I'm writing this little segment. See, since I also seem to have a strange fascination with "street sightings," I figured I would start a sort of log, just for entertainment value, since a vast majority of the population at my university seems to enjoy the, well let's just say, larger things in life.

Now of course, I'm talking about the cars, or in this case, trucks they drive. You see, it seems to have become tradition in the south, for some reason or other, to feel the need to drive a truck that is as big as your hold of land in Bulloch county. And I feel like it is justifiable to own a diesel-powered behemouth if you are indeed hauling farm equipment on a regular basis. However, the same does not ring true if you're just driving to class and back.

So for my little project, I've started to log some of my findings in iPhone photo form. So far I've only got two, but believe me, that number will grow. Also, to be fair, the photos are only of vehicles I know go to my school, so they will have to have the little round yellow parking pass sticker on them somewhere. Well I guess i'll give you my first couple entries. We start with this, a black Ford F-150 with a substantial lift.

My other photo for the time being was taken today; a Chevy Silverado diesel, also lifted.

Anyways, I'll keep you all posted on my latest and greatest sightings as they come up, and I am quite confident I'll have a pretty large catalog pretty soon.