Spring? What is this "Spring" I hear talk of?

8)Great idea Red_Wine ... now all I have to do is convince my wife and daughter!
Have long had a fascination for South America and would love to travel there someday ... I work in engineering ... any opportunities in Chile?

When is the best time of the year to visit Chile?
Do the people speak english?

slavy wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:03:

No, we speak Spanish, hermano
but most people at hotels, airport, and on the street will have some knowledge of basic English to help you if you get lost.
It's as if I went to the US and in just any city, I start asking for directions in Spanish, 90% of the people would think I'm nuts, give me weird looks and walk away, but the other 10% would try to help, either by showing a map, pointing to a cop, or kicking your a** to your destination   ... it's a joke...
No high crime, unless you get into poor areas with your white, rubicund and blond tourist look
Again, see you here (hurry, evenings are getting freshy)

PerrydaSavage wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:02:


It might hit 50 here this weekend. Snow is still on the ground in the shady spots, but the rain scheduled for this weekend ought to fix that.

I hope to get out to the shed and get some wrenching done.   I'm itching and can only scratch it with a boxed end wrench.

A coworker left last night for Daytona.  Makes me wanna puke in the snow.

today it's 52 degrees f.  sunny   i'm just fixing to take a nice long ride.    neener  neener  neener.    


lunch at big wally's it is.  a little joint 55 miles from home.
i never have seen ole big wally himself. i hear it's a fish.
a walleye i'm betting.

the ride for lunch was nice, started of a little rough though. i had just fueled up, pulled out onto highway went a little down the road and got "lit up".  i pull over,, state trooper asks "do you know why i pulled you over" i respond "havent got a clue". well you just slowed down for the stoplight, you didnt signal, and you license plate is mounted vertically. "i just let em add up before i stopped to talk to you about it".  bottom line, he wanted to check out the bike. he really liked how different it was. i rode away with out a ticket. dang it's nice having a unique machine.  8)

the rest of the ride was extremely pleasant, comfortable. lunch was good and the ride home uneventfull. i did stop at the race track and cleaned up the announcers booth. getting ready to go racin' season starts april 17th.