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I didn't want to offend his underdeveloped culinary sensibilities by tagging him
UK baked beans on toast = winning.
You can keep the egg.
You can keep the egg.
Scrambled egg on toast yes. Whatever that thing is, no.
booked mah Japan tix, ultimately not doing any Chase->Virgin->ANA booking fuckery because the Asiana flight via Seoul was very oddly cheap.
June 7 COS-DEN-NRT on United, because substantially cheaper than flying right out of Denver. will probably take a Lyft down south and stay at a super close hotel with shuttle the night before?
June 25 NRT-ICN-SEA on Asiana in business class because overnight flight and all. 2.5 hour layover at Incheon.
(stay at MIL's place)
June 29 SEA-DEN on Alaska
redeemed some United miles towards the United cost directly, paid the Asiana ticket price in part with Chase points.
$6,770.48 out of pocket ultimately + 77.5k miles and 306k? or so points, for the 5 of us altogether. $1,354.10 per person, and that's including the business class leg.
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June 7 COS-DEN-NRT on United, because substantially cheaper than flying right out of Denver. will probably take a Lyft down south and stay at a super close hotel with shuttle the night before?
June 25 NRT-ICN-SEA on Asiana in business class because overnight flight and all. 2.5 hour layover at Incheon.
(stay at MIL's place)
June 29 SEA-DEN on Alaska
redeemed some United miles towards the United cost directly, paid the Asiana ticket price in part with Chase points.
$6,770.48 out of pocket ultimately + 77.5k miles and 306k? or so points, for the 5 of us altogether. $1,354.10 per person, and that's including the business class leg.
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Negative.
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sounds too phallic
WWCD
Best suggestion so far.
I realized I didn't post my skiing photo here from Thursday. (shall be none from tomorrow as kids, tired from being in Seattle, vetoed it.)
https://www.threads.net/@toshi.clark/post/DEVkdMFy0YO
vid there, which was basically all the footage I got before my GoPro crapped out in the cold. I'd forgotten its usual external battery pack and it did not like that apparently
also note use of 69% SOC to get from home to Mary Jane to Thai Pot Cafe: 46% while going up, 23% while mostly coasting down. then an extra 5% was burned putzing around town to the library and post office, ultimately to home. so started at 100%, got back to garage at 26%, against a nominal 228 mile EPA range.
the AWD ID.Buzz that should be here next week (?) has a nominal 231 mile EPA range, as an additional datum.
https://www.threads.net/@toshi.clark/post/DEVkdMFy0YO
vid there, which was basically all the footage I got before my GoPro crapped out in the cold. I'd forgotten its usual external battery pack and it did not like that apparently
also note use of 69% SOC to get from home to Mary Jane to Thai Pot Cafe: 46% while going up, 23% while mostly coasting down. then an extra 5% was burned putzing around town to the library and post office, ultimately to home. so started at 100%, got back to garage at 26%, against a nominal 228 mile EPA range.
the AWD ID.Buzz that should be here next week (?) has a nominal 231 mile EPA range, as an additional datum.
¿que?
Note that I clearly didn't wait this long. But also I sold the Land Cruiser because of the super cheap Busy Forks lease and ended up using this to replace the minivan instead… Got the AWD, BEV bits covered. Range fell short: ID.Buzz will be 231 miles EPA. But as I've shown with my 228 EPA mile Busy Forks that's enough for Winter Park daytrips even at winter temps, in winter conditions, on winter tires.thoughts for this long down the road (7 years maybe? depends on the pace of my debt-payment project) Land Cruiser replacement:
- our PacHy is really the benchmark for interior volume for comfortably-garage-sized vehicles. it has 32.3 cu ft behind the 3rd row, 87.5 cu ft behind the second row with the 3rd row stowed into the floor as it so cleverly does, and 140.5 (!) cu ft with the second row pulled and the third row stowed. (2nd row must be pulled in the hybrid as the battery lives where the gas one's seats fold into the floor a la the 3rd row).
- I don't want anything smaller inside than my Land Cruiser, which would rule out newer Land Cruisers actually! anyway, my 100 has 20.8 cu ft behind the third row, 59.7 cu ft behind the second row (unclear if third row seats folded up or removed for this), and 90.8 cu ft behind the front seats with the second row either tumbled or just folded.
- AWD, BEV are musts as well, and I'll hold out for at least 300 miles of range. I also would quite like ventilated seats.
HUGE news for fans of the ID.Buzz! I, like everyone else, was going off of European measurements for cargo volume… and 2,469 liters as listed for the LWB is a paltry 87 cubic feet.
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given the above as context, the Kia EV9 has 20.2 cu ft behind the third row, 43.5 cu ft behind the second (finding this was tough! everyone parroted just the figures flanking this; only the Wards Auto article above had it afaik), and 81.7 cu ft behind the first row.
so it's significantly smaller than my Land Cruiser despite having 7" of length on it, and worlds smaller than the minivan (noting that the minivan has more cargo volume behind the 2nd row than the EV9 does behind the first with all back seats folded in!)
But in Europe they measure cargo volume _to the top of the seatbacks_. Here in 'Merica we measure to the roof. And by this metric the ID.Buzz has 145.5 cubic feet behind the 1st row, 75.5 behind the 2nd, and 18.6 behind the 3rd
Context:
Kia EV9: 81.7, 43.5, 20.2
my old Land Cruiser: 90.8, 59.7, 20.8
PacHy: 140.5, 87.5, 32.3
So the minivan still beats the pants off all competitors behind the 3rd row, because of the depth of the stow-'n-go well. But the ID.Buzz is right where it should be for the other cargo area metrics, and should work well for my ski day adventures with one 3rd row seat folded if not pulled out entirely.
Japan plans coming together
Housing all lined up save for one pending owner approval and on-site at Tokyo Disney where we can't book until 4 or 3 months out (Reddit said 3, site seems to indicate 4).
Figured out which trains we shall take that'll need tickets. Got my calendar event to buy JR Passes a month out as is possible then which tickets to book.
should be rolling onto the transport truck tomorrow!
now down to 1-2 lb over baseline. must have been full of holiday shit, eh, literally.
these are the charging curves for a Euro SWB/"small" pack ID.Buzz, nominally rated at 185 kW peak DCFC:
the slightly larger pack US/LWB version has a nominal 200 kW peak rate (albeit only for that first 20% of SOC!).
anyway re Monarch: ABRP says I could do it with one 35 min charge at the Salida Chargepoint installation on the way down... getting free electrons at the EA station in Fountain wouldn't be worth the detour.
the thing is that I'd be relying on the Chargepoint DCFC to be working. I suppose I could backtrack up the road a bit to another of them (I'd be at 20% hitting it on the way down if I started from 100% at home) but that's unnerving.
Monarch does have some L2 EVSE on site, too, and I could buy some kWh and charge for 4 hours, moving the car at lunchtime.
Unless something changed significantly this summer they only have 2, and you had better be there early.
It says there are three dual-port units there now. But yeah, I wouldn't rely on access. Whole thing makes me leery. Maybe I'd drive down super early to your 'hood and have you drive out from CoSpr instead: I can definitely do DEN-COS-DEN on one charge without relying on ChargePoint being reliable etc.
Some perspective (literally) on the size of the ID.Buzz relative to "normal" minivans. The Pacifica is 27.7 cm longer on a 15 cm shorter (!) wheelbase, and 3.7 cm wider.
The ID.Buzz is 15.2 cm taller, though--a modern Astro van for the ages!--and thus presents an imposing amount of frontal area to the viewer and the wind alike.
Ignore the cargo volume line at the site and in the auto-summary, though. That's incorrect as per my post above in this thread. They're totally on par behind the 1st row.
The ID.Buzz is 15.2 cm taller, though--a modern Astro van for the ages!--and thus presents an imposing amount of frontal area to the viewer and the wind alike.
Ignore the cargo volume line at the site and in the auto-summary, though. That's incorrect as per my post above in this thread. They're totally on par behind the 1st row.
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