Good morning. Got the shop open, but I'll be leaving fairly early to meet some Kossaks in Santa Fe this morning. It is rare that NM Kossaks get together, because we are so spread out over a big empty state. It's a 90 mile trip in for me, but that's actually a fairly routine journey, one I sometimes do daily when I have work there.
The benefit of an empty spacious state is there is little traffic, and the trip usually takes 70 minutes at the 85mph speeds we can get away with. Needless to say, transpo is a big expense out here, and is the biggest component of our carbon footprint.
There simply isn't any "public" transport around here. I could drive 24 miles to a bus, ride it 62 miles to SF for 6 bucks and hoof it around town, but that would severely limit how much supplies I could bring back.
Growing up as a child in the early 50s, I remember that December 7th, "Pearl Harbor Day" was never allowed to pass without notice. The same iconic photos of the USS Arizona burning and the airplanes coming out of the sky in whatever newspaper you saw, the solemn voice of FDR declaring a "Day of Infamy", never to be forgotten.
I fully expect September 11th to become as firmly iconicized as time goes by.
Meanwhile, we are here to talk about fixing up houses and help with household emergencies, not history.