"ImmoralMinority" (araimondo)
07/10/2019 at 16:36 • Filed to: None
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"ImmoralMinority" (araimondo)
07/10/2019 at 16:36 • Filed to: None | 3
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Ag city. Hotel clerk was shocked when I said it was pretty here. Pretty much the same as Fresno. These were at the hotel.
Oh, and most important, they are drivers.
Speaking of cars, it was a lovely drive here from Seattle. Mountains, woods, small towns, and whatever the fuck kind of arid landscape you call Yakima. It’s pretty - like High Plains Drifter. So far, people have been friendly. Hey, how about a Nissan Altima rental car review?
It had BOTH fake carbon fiber and fake wood, so that was awesome. All in all I liked it well enough. I would not buy buy one, but I am not the target buyer for this. I endorse it by saying
I will continue to believe that midsize sedan is the sweet spot of rental car choices if you like cars but don’t want to be crazy on what you spend. It did not drive as well as the Chevy Cruze I drove in Texas, but the Cruze demonstrated that GM dominates crappy interiors, even still. I can drive this car for the next 5 days, and it was a pleasant place to spend a few hours today.
Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
> ImmoralMinority
07/10/2019 at 17:04 |
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But the tri cities (Pasco, Richland, Kenniwick) are basically like stockton, no need to go there.
lone_liberal
> ImmoralMinority
07/10/2019 at 17:07 |
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The best thing about Yakima is that they grow a shit ton of hops around there so if you like wet hopped beers you are all set .
MonkeePuzzle
> ImmoralMinority
07/10/2019 at 17:12 |
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love that they got their own little 2 space parking area.
love how little room they take up in those spaces
shocked by the power window button pic directly following he classic cars, I thought briefly that you were suggesting the interiors of these classics were VERY updated.
wafflesnfalafel
> lone_liberal
07/10/2019 at 17:15 |
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Bale Breaker just south east of Yakima is really good..
M.T. Blake
> ImmoralMinority
07/10/2019 at 17:19 |
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Shocked about being pretty or that you’re from Fresno?
I always knew you were a bulldog! :D
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lone_liberal
> wafflesnfalafel
07/10/2019 at 17:25 |
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Bale Breaker is great, but I have to admit that I miss Grant’s.
Chuckles
> ImmoralMinority
07/10/2019 at 17:32 |
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The Altima seems like a perfectly cromulent car.
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wafflesnfalafel
> lone_liberal
07/10/2019 at 17:39 |
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yeah... he absolutely was a local pioneer, (maybe too far ahead of his time.) That HopNation place in downtown is pretty neat too... cool location
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lone_liberal
> wafflesnfalafel
07/10/2019 at 17:52 |
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It’s been a long time since I’ve been down to Yakima. I n fact the last time was when I was in college and went with a friend to his family’s hops farm, but now I think maybe I need to do a swing through Yakima and down to Bend to visit some breweries.
just-a-scratch
> ImmoralMinority
07/10/2019 at 18:09 |
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I don’t know Yakima all that well, but i f you want a burger, I really like to stop at Miner’s . Each time I go, I have to remind myself that the large order of fries is too big for a human to eat alone.
fintail
> ImmoralMinority
07/10/2019 at 18:56 |
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Le dgestone? I’ve stayed there too.
I like the arid scenery in that part of the world as well, maybe as I link it to being a kid, and I enjoyed it then as well. It gets more desolate than the Yakima Valley itself if you go north and east, although 82 between Ellensburg and Yakima can sometimes be a Martian landscape. That area can also get a fair dose of snow.
If you want to overeat and visit a Yakima landmark, go to Miner’s.
CaptDale - is secretly British
> ImmoralMinority
07/10/2019 at 19:04 |
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Are those rear window blanks ? Does it have electric front and rear manual windows?
gin-san - shitpost specialist
> ImmoralMinority
07/10/2019 at 19:34 |
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Interior seems pretty decent for that segment.
The Altima seems like a perfectly fine car if for whatever reason you didn’t want a Camry or Accord.
I can’t help but Nissan has just resigned itself to selling some car rather than the exciting stuff they had before like the Z cars or the GT-R, both models that really need to be updated. It’d be nice to see them do something crazy like the GT-R LM Nismo again...
NKato
> ImmoralMinority
07/10/2019 at 21:53 |
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Just be careful in Yakima county. There's a lot more drunk drivers there than the rest of the state.
Thomas Donohue
> ImmoralMinority
07/10/2019 at 23:15 |
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Good grief, when did this Lexus grill thing happen w/Nissan? I must get out more often. Or not.
Also, seems the Altima now has the same problem as the Alfa’s.......where does the front plate go!?!!?!?
MiniGTI - now with XJ6
> CaptDale - is secretly British
07/11/2019 at 00:21 |
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Auto down only on fronts probably.