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did you hear the news, Senior Grumpy? No more Ironman competition in Penticton . You will now have to go to Ottawa to beat out all the other Ironmanners. Or just stay in penticton and ride your Ironhorse to Spudsville and back.

strange to see vehicles parked on the downtown streets...but not seeing any people walking up and down the sidewalks. I guess must be a few restaurants open till 9pm or so to warrant the parked vehicles. Warm summer tuesday night, figure i'd see people out and about , bar hopping, restaurant patios, some stores open to go browse in. But i guess if 98% of the downtown closes up at 5-5:30 pm, people stay home and light their dog's farts or sumptin.

did you pass on the tuesday Whitespot triple 0's $8 burger? geez, last time i recall, the tuesday special was $3.99. And i kinda felt a bit ripped off. The Legendary burger combo with fries (no drink) is $18.00/the double double combo is 22.50 (my fave). the clubhouse sandwich/fries is $21! You'd think at these prices nobody eats at white spot anymore....pfffft, go at lunchtime or weekends or whenever, need a crowbar sometimes to get in thru the door and the lineup of people waiting for their table to be called.

how was the restaurant food ? by the way, the gas station i remember as a kid. I see they just kept the pumps. So nowhere to buy gas in Hedley?

hey...what's up with the cool looking old restored Broncos at Industrial. ? or are those old chevy blazers? you were behind one that said SHIFT on the tailgate. Both looked to be same colors...there some type of rent a restored 4X4 in Penticton business?

Serious question(s).......could you walk or bike this same gravel road if you had too? (not that i would)...just wondering if you walked /biked it....danger of getting attacked by mountain lion/cougar/bear/wolf/ squirrels high on meth.....that kinda thing. Do the rcmp/park rangers patrol this road ? can you get cell phone service?

okay..maybe i asked once before. Maybe i gots dementia. lake UDORK......what's the story? you enjoying the 35C-37C hot sunshine? Currently 25C / 64% humidity in vancouver at 2:55pm. by 5pm, calling for 98% humidity. Time to start shoving ice cubes up my ass.

where is this? it's beautiful.

Can you move slower and it helps not jerk the images it is a bit disconcerting no disrespect ever. love please tytyty. 😊🧏🏻‍♀️💙🫂⛵🐈🇨🇦🌲💚🌲

That's some beautiful Country you live in. Mountains are really nice i bet they are filled with game. Hunting must be great. Hope all is well.Came home Early????🍺🍺🍺

It's been over 11 years since i was last in Penticton. It's nice to see it is still a people friendly/family friendly type of environment and not bombarded with food trucks/ pedal carts and hucksters selling their crap. Or do they set up shop later in the afternoon? ice cream/hot dog/water-pop carts....read your palm for only $19.99? I guess it's still free parking at the Penticton parks and beaches, eh? City of Vancouver just implemented $1.00/hr pay pay parking at the huge parking lots for Spanish Banks beaches on July 1st . ( $1 now. Nose bleed rates will come later). Other beach parking lots ask $3.75- 4.25 hour during peak months of the year, slightly reduced off season pissy cooler weather Fall/Winter. Enjoy that Penticton beach walk !

Glad you are staying safe walking with your bodyguard. 😆

i'll be riding that road next week , supposed to be mid 30s so it'll be hot as hell riding. Coming from Calgary and goin west on the #3 is best. Don't have a plan , just go and see where we end up. i'd leave sooner but i'm flying to Vancouver Friday to see The Rolling Stones. :) 2017 Ultra Limited

i think my father worked in Rock Creek in late 1950s. Probably a mill, i'm guessing. I guess not much to see now, but i was reading during the Goldrush years of 1859 and so on, there were later '' 23 permanent buildings abandoned'' after the gold bust. There was a nearby community of Riverside, those buildings long gone. So i was thinking, what the heck is in Rock Creek now?? '' Businesses comprise a café, two gas stations, a hotel, a motel, two souvenir shops and a campground. The hotel vies with the Leland Hotel in Nakusp for the title of the oldest operating hostelry in BC. The small settlement remains important as a regional service centre for the farming and mining communities''........ugh. Trying to imagine how in the late 1950s there was probably even less. Fun times!

oh one more thing.....IF you are currently age 55 or so, are you ever asking any of these store/restaurants/etc for any type of senior's discount? Be surprised at how some places give discounts starting at age 55. Some of these ''kids'' (cashiers/service workers) have no idea how old a person is and will not even question or ask for proof if you tell them you are 60-65. They just think you are at least 30 and kinda old like their parents or grandparents, sure why not?! I asked for a senior's discount when i was age 41 in the Army & Navy store in New west. The 19 year old cashier twat said '' Oh for sure! 15% off for you!''. ~~ Milk it while you can ~~

your gas prices are in the vicinity of Vancouver's prices. ($1.75-1.80 L). I bet the dude driving the Challenger used up a 1/4 tank in six blocks and said to himself '' Screw this, i'm going home.'' I joke, it must be nice to have that Challenger. My cousin in Summerland i think still has his. Took me for a couple of rides in it, loved it. Yellow paint/white vinyl top. Forget the engine, maybe ''only'' a 318 . I think he was happy to have bought a low mile/good condition Challenger and it was okay to not have the biggest baddest beast under the hood.

nice weather!

Nice job Grump!

Super coverage

That was great, thank you

As a mechanic, any comment on the Ford GT? very cool looking sports car. In 2005, i was working as an auto glass technician in North Vancouver. We would get sent to the various new car dealerships to pick up new and used vehicles to do the glass work as needed. One day i heard that the Ford dealership had a brand new sportscar, so on my next visit i went to the showroom to see what it might be. The 05 Ford GT.......really cool looking car, and i was never into exotic sports cars at all. Damn car was roped off and on a pedestal. The salesmen would scowl at you and even tell you to stare from ten feet away. I got a look at the window sticker : something around $145K-$160K (forget, almost 20 years ago). Cool car but ridiculous price. But now i see maybe if one was wealthy enough to buy and store one, the value shot up like crazy! $550K-$770K!!!!!!....nuts. www.cargurus.ca/Cars/l-Used-2005-Ford-GT-c102

ahhh...beautiful, scenic ride. Reminds me of California. Did you guys go to Big Al's Bakery & Deli? supposedly very good stuff. Good place to eat too. Address: 6030 Main St, Oliver, BC V0H 1T0 Hours: Tuesday 7 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday 7 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursday 7 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday 7 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday Closed Monday (Canada Day) Closed i wanna check the place out myself one day. was also reading the reviews for MJ's country kitchen. Cool these small towns are getting better at feeding people.

My oldest brother had a 1969 Camaro from around 1980-85. 1969: L14 307ci V8 200 hp and then later i think he had a 350, both were kinda slow dogs. I enjoyed being a kid and going for rides in it. Happy to hear the V8 rumble. But i recall one year in Vancouver, sitting in the back seat. The rear floorboards had so much water on them. So much in fact, As a kid sitting in the back, i'd have to place my feet on the transmission tunnel to avoid getting soaked sneakers. It got so ridiculous, whenever i sat in the back seat (and it was winter heavy rain Vancouver), i got smart and brought with me an empty margarine tub . I would scoop up the floorboard water and toss it out the right rear quarter glass as my brother drove us around the city. I could see the water pooling up and i could hear it sloshing around as my brother braked or rounded a corner. Finally one day he had his buddy he owned or worked at a bodyshop put his Camaro up on a hoist to see what was up. Turned out the entire floorboards were rusted out, swiss cheese style holes. There were i imagine other issues and the bodyshop buddy explained it be costly to do the repairs, i think he end up buying the car for very little money as a side restoration project or whatever.

While I really enjoy watching these videos and all the scenery, I hate that I am not able to be riding along with you all. Darn work gets in the way, and the distance to get there.

Nice ride 🙂

This is so cool!

That's what I'm talkin about!!!

Penticton looks (mostly) nice and flat, maybe a perfect place to ride an E-bike? then again, i read lots of bike thefts going on. Anywhoooo....what's your fave car you seen so far?

Beautiful scenery. If you ever do a ride/drive out to Hedley , Google and youtube the town's history before you go. As a boy, only time my family ever stopped in Hedley was to pull over to that highway gas station. But that was very very rare when ... my father bothered to stop there. It must of included an emergency piss . Anyways, i seen pics and a youtube video of the history of Hedley, BC. ....it was a booming little mine town of i think 1200 people back in the golden years. By the mid 1950s, mines were closing and other factors, no jobs/no tourists....people flee for better pastures. Penticton was the place to be, i imagine . Penticton's population was bigger then Kelowna up till 1964 or so. Like my father and uncles, they went wherever the jobs were. When i got old enough to drive, i would always stop in Hedley on my way to Summerland. I had a hunch there was more t0 Hedley then just a quiet little tired looking Main street with a general store and a crap for sale antique store. But i did not know about Hedley;s history till recently, with the ease of internet knowledge. Check this out, go thru the galleries. www.communitystories.ca/v1/pm_v2.php?id=exhibit_home&fl=0&lg=English&ex=00000834 -- and , bcrdh.ca/islandora/object/hedley%3Aphotographs -- back as far as 1900, there were hotels, bakery, banks. general stores, laundrymat, police station, jail, school, a Hospital , probably were whorehouses and bars , there was at least one gas station-garage, restaurants and cafes. Up till the mid 1940s, the town had parades, ballroom dancing , concerts , CHILDREN . ......fun photo to check out in the gallery, there is a geodesic dome in somebody's backyard made out of cracked windshields. I saw that myself in person when i was exploring the town by car about 10 years ago. bcrdh.ca/islandora/object/hedley%3Aphotographs

Def need the youtube music on this one. 😂

near the very end of your drive, i was confused when i saw at the corner of Warren at Main.....EXP Realty '' drive thru''. I did a wtf? drive thru realty? Then on my third cuppa coffee, my brain woke up and i realize the drive thru is for the second cup coffee shop. Sometimes i have the dumbs.

We really miss that place......

Car cuts off two bike but you want to blame the trike?? Lol

Yes we are spoiled! Hah!

wow how many times did the caliper fall shock loading the flex line , what will the owner do when that line fails , oh i see all the bolts on the caliper frame were tighten to factory specs with lock tight, what hack lol.

Hey there Grumpster we just passed the A&W Root Beer stand lets turn around...A Cheese Burger and Fries and a Cold Root Beer on a hot day sounds good....Hope your doing ok...And the Rainbow looked so nice...And it doesn't belong to the LGBTQ crowd ......Stay well.......

Mechanics hands.... I have them too

Being on the tools helps keep you out of trouble? 😇😈

Nice. You gonna do that forest service road now the weather is good? Maybe you see a Bigfoot. Or MediumFoot.

Don't get any better my friend.......

Good news!

Dude you need to go go back

LOL

? Are you sure it wasn't a SUNDAY MORNING drive.... But then maybe it was, only it was just 6+1/2 days too late for "Last Sundays Drive". Besides, even by 3:30 it was "same city, same streets, and SAME major road, to get anywhere, so what's different.. Ah nothing actually.

I had to fix the word Angels to Angles. to much booze yesterday. Keep them Men at work series videos coming. LOL

Grumpy i have been watching most of your Men at work series videos. They are very good and i must say i have leaned a few things. That Swivel joint or Swivel socket that you put on the air gun sure helps with the angles . My Ford F150 needs a lot of work. So its good to watch your postings. Now i'm running to the joint for a few beers. Thanks and work safe.

What lake .i woulda stopped to fish 🎣

$1.75 reg gas in Penticton! Ridiculous. Here in Vancouver, got as ''low'' as $1.86 other night, then jumped up to $1.91+. I never go outta my way to line up for a 2cent-7cent price difference. You know, to feel smug that i save $1.35 on my fillup. In Vancouver, the gas stations play games and tease us with lower prices for a brief break. Then the prices get jacked up to $2-2.25/L and the News will tell us it's cuz an oil refinery down for maintenance or a Saudi Prince soiled his bedsheets/Godzilla awoke and is destroying oil wells in Texas. Either way, it's expensive to drive a vehicle in Gougecouver. :)

Hi....if i could pick your profession brain for a sec, any opinion or advice on deleting the Cat converter on my 06 Nissan Xtrail? I do realize there will be extra noise and the CEL might come on ( also read i can bypass the O2 sensor issue with a spark plug anti fouler where the O2 sensor screws into) and the enviromental issue. I still plan on keeping the muffler or buy a new universal quiet replacement budget brand muffler , if need be. A friend deleted his Cat (put a sport muffler on) his old 1993-ish Chevy S10/ 4cyl about 4 years ago. Bit louder, but according to him, bit more power , CEL on but now 4+ years and no mechanical/engine issues since then.

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