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Finally, road trip in the new ride!
Packed up the Macan GTS and hit the road. HWY 395 to Tahoe. Did the same trip last year in our overachieving Honda Fit Sport
which did well but other than gas milage the Porsche is certainly an upgrade. From Tahoe we went to the San Francisco bay area
and down HWY1 to San Simeon where I finally did a tour of Hearst Castle. In my lifetime I've probably zipped right by it
50 times in sports cars and sport bikes thinking "someday I'm going to check that out". Finally get to check that box.
A couple of hours after initial departure my cell phone rang. It was the Porsche Design boutique at South Coast Plaza (Costa Mesa)
letting me know my P-6000 (Eterna) was back from service. Great, we should be going right by there on our way back to San Diego!
I lived in Tahoe in the late 50s and have never been able to get enough of the place. I've also known about the biggest gem on the
water, the Thunderbird and not only saw it but managed to schmooze my way on to it for a personal tour (with my wife, Judy).
What an experience! As a result of purchasing a Corum Admirals Cup watch I was once lucky enough to be invited to view an Americas Cup
Series race ... on that occasion I was lucky enough to become the extra man on the Corum sponsored French entry. Near the end
of the race I found myself looking back at "some guy" named Russell Coutts as we won the race! Anyway, getting on the
Thunderbird is an equal though quite different boat experience for me. What a boat! Originally built in 1940. Concieved as an ultimate high speed day boat
for beautiful Lake Tahoe. No place to sleep, no galley, just heaps of style and power. Later purchased by Bill Harrah (casino magnate and car collector) who added a stainless steel flying bridge
and swapped out the two Kermath powerplants to two WWII era supercharged Allison V12s which are currently tuned to 1100 hp (each). It was a fantastic
trip but it was also great to be back as we were both missing our "Moochie".
Big Blue X2 !
Do you ever wonder if people are thinking "why is that guy taking so many pictures of his watch"?!!
Judy brought some blue too. Omega electric blue Seamaster 300.
Gave my Bathyscaphe its first "plunge"... we didn't quite make it to Fify Fathoms although Tahoe might have been able to accomidate that.
struck up a conversation at the beach with a nice gent who let me take a snap of his cool vintage Omega.
Saw some beautiful skys and sunsets.
Lots of amazing boats!
But only one Thunderbird (after the image below)...
Ok... so now that I've finally been aboard my next Thunderbird dream is.....haha!
Finally, HWY1 to San Simeon...
Hearst "Castle" drive by shot from the bus....
To me the pools were the highlight (well, I am a Pisces after all).
Some of the local surfers were very skilled! Always able to make that next section before it closes out!
Now Brian, Judy and Moochie are reunited and the P-6000 is back in the collection. Hope you found this entertaining. Over and out for now......
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Finally, road trip in the new ride!
Packed up the Macan GTS and hit the road. HWY 395 to Tahoe. Did the same trip last year in our overachieving Honda Fit Sport which did well but other than gas milage the Porsche is certainly an upgrade. From Tahoe we went to the San Francisco bay area and...
Great post !...
Thanks for taking us along for the road trip. Thunderbird is something very special !
Honestly my pictures
don't do it justice. Its totally off the chart. I really wish I could have gotten to it slightly earlier light wise (unwanted shadows from other boats) and that it wasn't so close to the giant plastic boat on its port side. Then again, thankyou universe f...
What a journey!
We can see you had a great time. Beautiful pictures. Thanks for sharing. Vte
Thanks!...
I suppose you "might" say my very first car was related .... a '64 VW beetle. Other than that and one Fiat (128 4 door) I've been Japan-Man all my life (cars and bikes) so its basically a new experience for me. So far we are liking it. I had sold the PD P...
Nice story, Mr In Debt But On Time
Thanks for posting it so we could all go along. How did you manage to talk your way onto the Thunderbird? Did Judy help? I can see she knows her way around wooden boats. Cazalea ...
Ha Ha... that was a fun day! Anyway I thought I saw it in the marina across the street from our top floor room at the Peppertree Inn.
Pulled out my RX-10 III and zoomed in and said "that's the Thunderbird down there". She looked through the viewfinder and still didn't belive it was the Thunderbird. I went to look (with camera) and sure enough it was the boat in question. One of the crew...
Thanks for sharing your road trip! You make the USA very attractive! Haven't been yet!
One mission thing, the picture of the Honda Fit! Best, É.
We not only did the same loop last year
we even had the same awesome rooms at both the Peppertree Inn (Tahoe City) and at the Cavalier in San Simeon. Just different wheels! this is a great little hatch! Keepin' it 'till the wheels fall off! ...
A bit different but still nice :)
Here they are call Jazz, robust, practical, functional,the ideal tool car The Seiko/Hamilton of cars. Best, É.
Great post, B
Love the first photo with the Blancpain. Really impressed someone was trunking it... the water is NOT that warm that north. You and Judy really had a great time and glad to see the Porsche Design back with the Porsche Macan.
Thanks!
Near the end of summer the lake is ...oh.. mid to high 60s, "if" you are near the shore and/or "if" you don't start heading downward depthwise. Cheers bro! Here's a few more.... ...
Oh, you're right on that one!
I waded in and it was definitely a full suit zone. I saw no one with a shorty and no one without booties for that matter. Tasty little tubes there though! Felt like high 50s-low 60s.
San Simeon
is also a great place to head north from on HWY1. A ton of beauty for a lot of miles... winding along the cliffs next to the Pacific. I highly recommend it!
