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Road Trip

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I am back from my most recent roadtrip. I loaded up the Tesla and started letting the hands-off Full Self Drive (FSD) supervised take me to to points North. First stopping in a campground in Tennesee and up to Pittsburgh for the CIDM Convex Conference (which was the best conference in years). There was a celebration of the 20 years of DITA XML. I was an earlier adopter. My presentation went well and I semi-stealth launched wisdomino. I demo'd some extra cool software we developed and will be selling in weeks to come. It's truely game changing. Of course, there will be much more than that to come. After that it was on to Franklin, PA. to meet with some colleagues in the mining division and onto the farm stopping in Olean NY for the night. I am pretty sure it was the first time I had driven across the entire Allegany National Forest. I ended up driving through the very dark forest expanse during a night time thunderstorm. Although I normally trust the Tesla FSD on the Inters...
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Old Trucks built in Upstate NY and New Electric Cars

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I went to a car show in Atlanta the other day. I test drove a Chevy Volt. I was very impressed with the Volt. I may buy one of those. I also went into the Atlanta Underground and found a few old trucks. Both of them were made in NY. The Selden was made in Rochester and the Larrabee was made in Binghamton. Things sure have changed. It seemed appropriate they were on display down here not up in NY.