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After I cleaned up the coffee I spewed all over the computer screen 
while reading this I decided I simply could not let this pass without
comment.

**Tori said: Seriously though, as much as I enjoy driving my SLK I'll 
take my truck as first choice to drive anywhere.  just for the safety 
factor. Everything else be damned.
Tori has always told me that the reason she doesn't want me to drive 
when I have my car is that it doesn't have air conditioning (another 
"economy" feature of it), and here I find out it is because she doesn't 
feel safe it it,...**

True as rain Kat.  I'd rather do all the driving (ask Lynne about 
Montana) than sit in a car in LA without air conditioning.  Driving 
with a window open is not an option as road dust is one of my biggest 
asthma triggers and I won't purposely give myself an asthma attack just 
for the privilege of being driven around in your car, even IF you 
promised to drive it like you do your truck on dirt roads!

**It's only when Tori goes on a ride along with me off-roading (more 
accurately dirt roading) in my truck that she has to hold on for dear 
life.**

Kat's dirt road driving could easily qualify as a Disneyland E-ticket 
ride.  You should have seen the size of the bruise I had on my side 
from the seat belt.  It only took one good bump to get me to take it 
off, but the damage was done.  I may have been holding on for dear 
life, but man was that fun!  What a rush.  Wahoo!  Definitely recommend 
riding with Kat on a dirt road - just don't have any open beverages 
when you do it.

**It took us half the time to negotiate the Main Divide when I was 
driving MY truck than the time Tori was driving her truck. We were 
still going faster when I was driving than when she drove even after we 
hooked the porta potty on a trailer to the back of the my truck. After 
all, by then we were coming DOWN.**

True, true, true.  I was driving my brand new truck on an unfamiliar 
dirt mountain road.  I was being conservative (I also made Kat change 
the flat tire I got too).  However, by the end of Main Divide I was 
fairly flying down the road Kat just wasn't with me.  I do have to add 
a bit of info here, yes we were flying down the mountain with 
portapotty in tow (the toilet paper was waving like a flag out the 
back), but Kat was using her brakes a lot.  I have the distinct 
pleasure in telling you all that I had to tell her when driving a 4x4 
in 4-low   you put your truck in 1st gear not D.  Her comment was ... 
"Oh" ... needless to say after she put her truck in 1st gear and truly 
found out what 4-low really means she put it back in drive and 
continued to fly down the mountain.  I believe our conversation ran 
towards what would happen if the portapotty tipped over and wondering 
if the bucket that had been placed in the glory hole was still in its 
spot doing its intended job.  Since there would have been no way in 
God's green Earth that I would have helped pick up a tipped over 
portapotty, I believe we decided that we'd just unhook the trailer and 
leave it behind.  We got off the mountain all safe and erect, but 
neither of us opened the door to retrieve the bucket.

Tori
PS.  Kat isn't as smart as some of you think ;-)





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