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At the End of a Long Drive


Shreesh and Neena Taskar

We didn't make the decision, the decision made us. On October 20th, 2007, we left our comfortable city of San Francisco to follow a simple algorithm - go North till the road ends then turn around and then go as far South. In between those two points was the stage, the timeline, the space, where we made things happen and things happened to us.

The past is fleeting and the stories, the sights and the feelings are perishable. One sees what one wants to see, and perhaps we are not capable of more. We saw that people are kind and helpful even if they were not materially rich. Some we could understand even though we didn't speak the same language, the motivations of others were incomprehensible even though we did. In the end fragments remain - the smell of roasting chocolate, a flock of snow Ptarmigians on snow, the creaking of the rainforest, the rough feathers of penguins, and the intoxication of Curanto.


So these are our stories. Every time you visit the site you will see a random post below. Each starts with Lo que pasa es que...

Learn About Cars – Change a Timing Belt!

Jul 31st, 2006 by

Our Sports Car.

The Miata at Chimney Rock Winery, Napa

A Big Hurdle – Buying Panza – Changing the timing belt

A major hurdle lay on our road to the ends of the world. Neither of us had even changed oil in a car! Chris (the racer) suggested that we buy a Miata and get our hands greasy. A Miata would be easier to work on than a big truck; used ones are easily available; there’s major help in the form of Miata.net and besides, they are cute!.

So off we trotted to Concord to buy meet Larry, who sold us our black Miata. We named it Panza, after Sancho Panza, Quixote’s loyal squire. (Our FJ Cruiser is called Quixote).

Timing Belt Change

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