Ldub, thanks for the lift

[JoFotoz]

Thanks Dub...BUT...

Its this West coast I was thinking of......



Baldwin...sets up a one of a kind tour of Petersons and Awesome isuzu freebies!

Anita...keeps us Kosher when "intruders" try to invade.

Riff Raff...doing the skid plate shuffle...for everyones benefit.

Rickshaw...teaching us all how to detail!

Cyronman....always there when a painted boob is on the loose!

Triathlete..an honrary West Coaster everytime he runs our beaches!



Etc Etc Etc...( dont get me started on alaska!)




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[Triathlete]

Triathlete..an honrary West Coaster everytime he runs our beaches!



jo

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LOL...actually I was born a Californian...only a 'zonie for the last 37 years! I spent the first 7 and all my summers until I was 16 trolling the beaches of L.A. with a surf board under my arm!

[lasturbo]

My vote for Larry for helping a fellow Larry when he got me a drain plug from an Isuzu cuz mine was some aftermarket quick release that I did not trust. I was a newbie at that time and Ldub came through for a fellow member, that he has never met, and I still really appreciate it and will never forget it. Not only that, but a few PM's went his way asking "rookie" questions as well. Like I said, if I can do anything over here on the "west coast," I will make the same effort!
Thanks again dub!! :gring:

[Marlin]

LMFAO, I was just poking at you...I guess now I can say that Southern Californians are way too sensitive? Although my sample group (VX owners) would not be a good representation, VX owners are not "normal".

The only reason I mentioned it is that I just moved here to SC from San Diego 1 year ago this week. I lived in San Diego three different times. I was in Rancho Bernardo, Chula Vista, and Pacific Beach. At every house we lived in, we would go talk to our neighbors, some of whom had lived there for years, and none of them knew each other!!! How do you not know your neighbors? My wife and I are both from Missouri, and my wife's closest neighbors were 1/2 mile down the road, and they still knew all of them within a few miles. I guess it is just a cultural difference.
Relax So Cal brothers and sisters, it was just good natured ribbing. Being in the Navy, I have met people from everywhere and get along with just about everyone. When we get new students, they have to write an essay about where they are from, their hobbies and so on. It enables us to profile, so to speak, and identify the ones that may have problems later on. When I read the San Diego kid's essays, it never fails that hobbies include :shopping, tanning, water polo, surfing, texting...I didn't know tanning was a hobby?! They also have really bad habits about saying "LIKE" and "DUDE". LOL

[WormGod]

And us east coast folks get left out to dry. I understand. Tomorrow, I shall divide the states at the Mississippi River and call it a day.

[Ldub]

LMFAO, I was just poking at you...I guess now I can say that Southern Californians are way too sensitive? Although my sample group (VX owners) would not be a good representation, VX owners are not "normal".

The only reason I mentioned it is that I just moved here to SC from San Diego 1 year ago this week. I lived in San Diego three different times. I was in Rancho Bernardo, Chula Vista, and Pacific Beach. At every house we lived in, we would go talk to our neighbors, some of whom had lived there for years, and none of them knew each other!!! How do you not know your neighbors? My wife and I are both from Missouri, and my wife's closest neighbors were 1/2 mile down the road, and they still knew all of them within a few miles. I guess it is just a cultural difference.
Relax So Cal brothers and sisters, it was just good natured ribbing. Being in the Navy, I have met people from everywhere and get along with just about everyone. When we get new students, they have to write an essay about where they are from, their hobbies and so on. It enables us to profile, so to speak, and identify the ones that may have problems later on. When I read the San Diego kid's essays, it never fails that hobbies include :shopping, tanning, water polo, surfing, texting...I didn't know tanning was a hobby?! They also have really bad habits about saying "LIKE" and "DUDE". LOL

LIKE DUDE...you sure know how to stir the pot...

I think "texting" as a hobby is hilarious, whatever happened to just TALKING to people?

It is my fervent hope, that the stoop @ the ROCK doesn't degenerate into "fight club" when alcohol is added...
Anyone in the mood to get "scuffed up a bit", will no longer be welcome near 112...

And us east coast folks get left out to dry. I understand. Tomorrow, I shall divide the states at the Mississippi River and call it a day.

And me, the "midwest poster boy" here in the middle...I can drive for about two hours (N E) & literally WALK across the headwaters of the Mississippi.

[nocturnalVX]

DUUUUDE! How can you get to know your neighbors in the Midwest when very few of them speak English? I moved out of a condo complex because I felt like I was in an east block country and now that I finally moved into a "nice neighborhood", neighbors on one side still don't speak English and the neighbors on the other side are gold medalist A-holes. The house two doors down is renting out every room in their house, the garage is converted into another apartment, and they're trashing the block (piling up dog crap in the alley, cigarettes, beer cans, fast food trash, did I mention they have 8 or so different cars that they can't park on their own property)... yeah... Midwesterners are the BEST!!!

[nfpgasmask]

...and why do a good portion of your generalizations of people have a bit to do about my background? BTW... YOU are WAAAAY off! Born and raised in So Cal, live in the Midwest now and if I had the funds to move back with Gill in tow, I wouldn't look back. (Jo ya got any spare rooms on that boat???) Eff the Midwest!

I'm with you Cece, I've been moved to Reno from Chicago for 2.5 years now and there is NO WAY I would come back. There would have to be some ridiculously enormous sum involved for me to even think about going back east. I honestly don't know how anyone could even begin to compare the East to the West. Just look at a map. The eastern US is like 3 times and crowded!! Gill is one lucky dude to have found someone willing to make that sacrifice!!! Now go convince him to move out west with you!!!

The only reason I mentioned it is that I just moved here to SC from San Diego 1 year ago this week. I lived in San Diego three different times. I was in Rancho Bernardo, Chula Vista, and Pacific Beach. At every house we lived in, we would go talk to our neighbors, some of whom had lived there for years, and none of them knew each other!!! How do you not know your neighbors? My wife and I are both from Missouri, and my wife's closest neighbors were 1/2 mile down the road, and they still knew all of them within a few miles. I guess it is just a cultural difference.

See, maybe it's a city thing, but man, people out here are WAAAAY more layed back than the people in Chicago. And the same goes for California. People are just super friendly and way more outgoing and open minded. Living in Chicago was like, put your head down, walk, and don't make eye contact. I also found living in the city very "click" oriented. I had my group of friends (that I have been friends with since childhood mind you) and that was really it. To me it was like, I don't know you, I don't want to know you and I don't care to know you. TOTALLY DIFFERENT VIBE out here, and imo, way cooler.

But you live in the "South" where it takes like 20 minutes to get a #2 cheeseburger meal at McDonalds, so I really can't compare.

Bart