From: wats@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM (Bruce Watson)
Newsgroups: co.general
Subject: Re: Anywhere out of the world
Date: 25 Jan 93 20:00:56 GMT
Organization: Alpha Science Computer Network, Denver, Co.

In article <1993Jan23.054856.17164@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu| pciszek@nyx.cs.du.edu (Paul Ciszek) writes:
|
|If you are driving from Califnordia to Colorado, you might want to do
|the following:
|
|  * Drain your radiator and fill it with a 50-50 mixture of water and
|    ethylene glycol, commonly known as "anti-freeze" in those parts of
|    the country where water freezes during certain parts of the year.
|
Probably not necessary. Have it checked. All cars come equipped with
a 50-50 mix. Ethylene glycol not only raises the freezing point
of water but also raises the boiling point (for those areas of the
country that normally don't have hard freezes but have a severe
air conditioning problem. Don't make the mistake of putting pure
anti-freeze in the radiator. Pure anti-freeze has a *lower* freezing
point than a 50-50 mix and anti-freeze is expensive.

|  * Obtain an implement for scraping ice off of your windshield (I kid
|    you not!  My sister went to school in Texas, and when it snowed for
|    the first time in umpteen years, she whipped out her handy window
|    scraper, and none of the Texans knew what it was!)

Do this for sure and fill the windshield cleaner reservoir.
|
|  * If you get lost driving around the Denver Metro area, remember that 
|    the mountains are always WEST.

And the mountains can almost always be seen unless it's snowing.
|
|  * The best 24-hour eateries in the Denver Metro Area are the IHoP's,
|    or "International House of Pancakes".
|
Only if you have a large family.

|  * Our Museum of Natural History is really cool.  The first thing you
|    see when you walk in the front door is a T. Rex skeleton looming over
|    the entrance, posed in mid-pounce.  Right now, they have some IMMENSE
|    Aztec stone carvings as part of a special show.
|
And the IMAX is great but the planetarium hurts.

|And most important of all:
|
|  * Don't move to Colorado; just spend some money here.  We don't want
|    people like you moving in and driving the housing prices (further)
|    up.

Too late. Everyone who left Colorado are now back here. Apartment
rentals in some areas of the city are already rising.

Spend some time to determine what the weather will like on your
route. Driving in the mountains while it is snowing is very 
tricky for someone who is not used to it. I'd advise the southern
route through New Mexico. Watch it on Raton pass and the 
Palmer ridge north of Colorado Springs.

We had a very snowy and cold November and December but lately it's
been warm but windy. By late March the serious threat of ice
will be gone.
-- 
Bruce Watson (wats@scicom.alphaCDC.COM) Bulletin 629-49 Item 6700 Extract 75,131
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In article <1993Jan23.054856.17164@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu| pciszek@nyx.cs.du.edu (Paul Ciszek) writes:
|
|If you are driving from Califnordia to Colorado, you might want to do
|the following:
|
|  * Drain your radiator and fill it with a 50-50 mixture of water and
|    ethylene glycol, commonly known as "anti-freeze" in those parts of
|    the country where water freezes during certain parts of the year.
|
Probably not necessary. Have it checked. All cars come equipped with
a 50-50 mix. Ethylene glycol not only raises the freezing point
of water but also raises the boiling point (for those areas of the
country that normally don't have hard freezes but have a severe
air conditioning problem. Don't make the mistake of putting pure
anti-freeze in the radiator. Pure anti-freeze has a *lower* freezing
point than a 50-50 mix and anti-freeze is expensive.

|  * Obtain an implement for scraping ice off of your windshield (I kid
|    you not!  My sister went to school in Texas, and when it snowed for
|    the first time in umpteen years, she whipped out her handy window
|    scraper, and none of the Texans knew what it was!)

Do this for sure and fill the windshield cleaner reservoir.
|
|  * If you get lost driving around the Denver Metro area, remember that 
|    the mountains are always WEST.

And the mountains can almost always be seen unless it's snowing.
|
|  * The best 24-hour eateries in the Denver Metro Area are the IHoP's,
|    or "International House of Pancakes".
|
Only if you have a large family.

|  * Our Museum of Natural History is really cool.  The first thing you
|    see when you walk in the front door is a T. Rex skeleton looming over
|    the entrance, posed in mid-pounce.  Right now, they have some IMMENSE
|    Aztec stone carvings as part of a special show.
|
And the IMAX is great but the planetarium hurts.

|And most important of all:
|
|  * Don't move to Colorado; just spend some money here.  We don't want
|    people like you moving in and driving the housing prices (further)
|    up.

Too late. Everyone who left Colorado are now back here. Apartment
rentals in some areas of the city are already rising.

Spend some time to determine what the weather will like on your
route. Driving in the mountains while it is snowing is very 
tricky for someone who is not used to it. I'd advise the southern
route through New Mexico. Watch it on Raton pass and the 
Palmer ridge north of Colorado Springs.

We had a very snowy and cold November and December but lately it's
been warm but windy. By late March the serious threat of ice
will be gone.
-- 
Bruce Watson (wats@scicom.alphaCDC.COM) Bulletin 629-49 Item 6700 Extract 75,131
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