Look, I'm not disagreeing with the idea that we should be open to the idea that there /might be/ aliens doing things, just as Don Quixote wasn't wrong to think that windmills /might be/ giants in disguise.

The problem comes when we make that our first assumption.

When I was young, the US Navy used the recruiting slogan, "not just a job, it's an adventure."

From this, I learned that a functional definition of "adventure" is "someone a thousand miles away having a perfectly shit time."

Our YT recommendations must be very similar.

So, amusing anecdote: Nini filmed that video at Goldfield, Arizona.

I recognize it because almost twenty years ago now, my kilt klub did a pin-up calendar with proceeds to charity. I was Mr. September.

My picture? Kilted me on a white horse at Goldfield.

They're reasonably priced, as liter bikes go, but yes, the lack of mechanics (and the fees charged by the ones there are) is a hurdle.

Yeah, but sometimes that scope gets you trapped under twenty feet of snow in a pass between Nevada and California, eyeing your pillion and the last snack pack of Oreos.

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Out here, 140 miles sometimes barely gets you to the next gas station.

I wish I were joking.

So unless you live in a large enough spot of somewhere that you rarely need to leave it, you need a larger engine and fuel tank here.

But man, I covet a new CB350, and it looks like they're not coming out in the States. Sad cat.

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As my videos show, once you get to the Western half of the country, the USA is mostly small spots of somewhere with large stretches of nowhere in between. Only the 13 original states and the immediate second-generation states which followed are settled the way Europe and the UK are.

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