used in the process of heating up coal to make coke.
What makes coking coal distinct is that it is a fuel with few impurities. Most grades of coke are from 86 to 93 percent pure carbon and produce a clean intense heat when burned. Coke is made by heating coal in a controlled atmosphere, driving off most of the impurities, and leaving a porous structure strong enough to support the iron ore that coke is often used to heat.
notice the plank road, necessary to get the heavy truck with the skinny damn tires out of the woods. It's been a while since I posted about plank roads, but what little I learned about them never mentioned them used for logging, and I bet it's due to the ignorance of the logging world by the rest of the driving world that was interested in getting across the sand dunes
Herman and Candelaria Zapp set out on a six-month road trip to drive from Argentina to Alaska, but things went well, and their journey has taken them to 73 countries, across six different continents, into the homes of 2,500 welcoming strangers, and along the way, the couple welcomed four kids into the world during various stops on the map, including Canada.
“The idea was six months … It looked like enough time to go to Alaska and come back and have a family, and have kids and have a normal life,” he says from an auto shop where the family’s 1928 Graham-Paige was getting a tune-up and having the wooden spokes on its wheels inspected.
Herman believes the simplistic nature of the car’s engineering has helped his family’s journey last as long as it has – something that may not have happened with a newer vehicle.
“My Grandpa told me, ‘if you want to get far, you have to go slow. If you want to succeed it has to be something simple. And if you want to do something it should be with style,’ and this car fits those three things perfectly.”
balloonists in Namibia
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The family supplements the generosity they receive on the road by selling copies of their book, “Spark Your Dream,” from the roof of their car.
The tale of their first journey became a bestseller in 2005 in their native Argentina. https://www.facebook.com/herman.zapp http://www.argentinaalaska.com/blog/Welcome-alaska
it's equipped with an exhaust manifold cooker, of course!
The following video was made by Charly Sinewan, a Spanish traveler who they met in Cape Town, he goes solo around the world in his motorbike.
While they were trying to arrange in which part of Zambia we would meet, they saw him coming in the opposite way in the same road!
I would have to admit that Mozambique was one of the most difficult countries for us and is one of the countries where we would choose not to return.
We often felt not like human beings, more like walking ATMs, the word for “Money” was deeply etched in our minds and became the most common denominator when someone approached to speak with us. If we asked for directions to get to a place, we knew the answer. If we asked for help to push the car when we get stuck, we also knew the answer. “Money” was always the first answer. Without money, nothing could happen.
One day we “lost” the gasoline jerry can, then it was Tehue’s shoes that disappeared, on another day it was the Old Car Club emblems that decorate the trunk, then a computer and backpack, and another attempt to remove a speaker.
So many of our few possessions were disappearing as we moved through Mozambique. Worse still, all at different moments.
In 15 years we had only lost one plastic chair and a tripod that was attached to the outside of the car. Then in just two months, all of this.
Of course one must take into account that Mozambique is a poor country. Unfortunately this seems to be a question not of poverty but of culture.
Steve came through with the answer! Well, an answer. This add (below) doesn't mention the hundred dollars, and I can't see them having the dollar wrapper printed once, for just this one stack, and further, having this and only this stack put in lucite. That's a lot of expense for just one dealership in 1972
But Steve found that these hundred dollar stacks were made in Canada by the Goldfeder Co., you could order them from the factory with the label reading what you wanted it to say. Online there is a statement from a guy who worked there who says only two real dollar bills are in there, the top and bottom. The rest is just a matching colored paper bulk the right size
According to an ad - a "special edition
of Chrysler's low-priced Newport Royal" with a first-time offered plush
interior, a special color, and a special parchment vinyl roof.
Second, the contest was apparently a single dealership promotion
that ran only for the month of June in 1972
The dealership was Deland Chrysler-Plymouth (Home of
the #1 Deal) in Deland Florida, which is about 35 miles north of Orlando.
The band says:
$100 - If the numbers on notes in this package do not run in sequence, the substituted notes are indicated by a "Star."
Inquiries should include the serial numbers of the notes.
I suppose this is a way of branding the Renegade with a famous trail, like they did with the Wrangler when they went with calling the upgraded model the Rubicon
He's back, and posting on the Ferrari Chat forum again
Here was his 1st comment (July 30 2016) after the April 2016 collision:
I read this entire thread. THANK YOU to everyone who posted their well-wishes. Special thanks to Robb for his extreme kindness, and to Eric and Robb (again) for visiting.
Despite a high impact collision between my head and steering wheel, most of my brain and faculties seem to have survived. Physically, some challenges.
Losing Amanda has been crushing. The car was special because we enjoyed it together.
It's very slow to type now but I am getting back online and wanted to let everyone here know I finally got to read this and appreciate every post.
