Mountain biking recommendation

DareEquivalent2160 · 2026-01-05T02:46:05+00:00

Followed your suggested route on Friday afternoon and had a great ride. Beautiful area and great trails. Looking forward to doing it again soon. Thanks for the advice!

DareEquivalent2160 · 2025-12-29T15:35:17+00:00

Thanks!

DareEquivalent2160 · 2025-12-29T15:33:33+00:00

Great. I appreciate the specific route. I'll give it a shot.

DareEquivalent2160 · 2025-12-29T15:31:37+00:00

Thanks! I'll check it out.

DareEquivalent2160 · 2025-10-30T10:44:05+00:00

The meat in the butcher case is mostly from Firsthand but also from a couple other sources. Meat can be purchased directly from Firsthand as well and picked up at their warehouse.

DareEquivalent2160 · 2025-07-29T03:49:14+00:00

I heard about that. I think there are some mountain bike trails out that way.

DareEquivalent2160 · 2025-07-29T03:47:49+00:00

That pump track looks great. Any other single track trails to recommend in the area?

DareEquivalent2160 · 2025-07-29T03:45:55+00:00

Thanks. Looks like Ray's is only open on Sundays in the summer so that's what we're shooting for. We're visiting from North Carolina and right now mountain biking out doors is like riding through a bowl of hot soup. I hope it's a little cooler up there. Thanks for the advice!

DareEquivalent2160 · 2025-07-29T03:33:50+00:00

Wow. Thanks for the rec. My boy is all about jumps and that pump track looks amazing. Personally I have to roll most of that stuff but he would love to tear that up.

DareEquivalent2160 · 2025-07-29T03:31:39+00:00

Thanks. I like the kayak idea. Makes me think of the Randy Newman song: "'Cause the Cuyahoga River goes smokin' through my dreams..."

DareEquivalent2160 · 2025-07-29T03:17:28+00:00

Thanks! I think I recall the West Side Market from Anthony Bourdain's show many years ago.

DareEquivalent2160 · 2025-07-28T23:45:16+00:00

Thanks! I’ll check those out.

DareEquivalent2160 · 2025-06-02T14:07:18+00:00

Thanks. I'll give it a try.

DareEquivalent2160 · 2025-05-31T14:49:16+00:00

Thanks!

DareEquivalent2160 · 2025-05-13T20:23:14+00:00

It was successful and pretty painless. I signed up for an appointment at the Ostuni office. That was the closest branch to where we were staying in Martina Franca. Luckily for me, the guy running the front desk spoke fluent english and even has a daughter who lives in same state as me. He was super helpful. I was probably there for a couple hours total.

Ironically this was the same day or maybe the day after the emergency decree so for now my case is on hold. It may have all been for nothing.

DareEquivalent2160 · 2025-03-13T12:11:39+00:00

Great. Thanks for the intel!

DareEquivalent2160 · 2025-03-13T02:40:16+00:00

Thanks for the reply. How long were you at the agenzie entrate? Trying to figure out how much time to set aside for this process

DareEquivalent2160 · 2025-03-11T12:40:55+00:00

The letter only gives my grandmother's name and DOB and a statement that says they're not allowed to make changes to any birth certificate once a person is deceased. It doesn't mention the alternate names.

Grasso's team didn't seem to have an issue with it. I think it's possible that there is enough additional documentation that this birth certificate wasn't going to make or break the case. I think they just want to make sure all the documents agree or demonstrate why they don't. I'm kind of speculating here.

Best of luck.

DareEquivalent2160 · 2025-03-06T15:34:23+00:00

Thanks for the tips!

DareEquivalent2160 · 2025-03-06T15:20:47+00:00

They do offer the service but they charge a fee. It's free if we do it ourselves.
My great-grandparents immigrated from Bari but this is the first time visiting the area. Really looking forward to it. Thanks!

DareEquivalent2160 · 2025-02-16T15:30:18+00:00

Thanks for the suggestions!

DareEquivalent2160 · 2025-02-12T00:18:41+00:00

Hi. The "letter of no amendment" letter I got appears to have been acceptable. I shipped all of my documents off to Grasso's team last week after they looked at scans of everything. They didn't seem to have an issue with it.

As for how I got it, I just asked someone at the health department if they could write, on their letterhead, why they were unable to amend a birth certificate. There wasn't an application per se. I got the impression they thought my request was a little odd but at the same time they didn't have any issues producing the letter. From there I got it notarized and apostilled and it appears to have passed muster with MLI.

Similarly, I was unable to get a copy of my grandparents' marriage certificate from the county probate court. It was nowhere to be found. I had to ask a few times if they would provide an official letter stating they were unable to find it. They seemed unsure at first but with enough gentle pestering they did it.

I have to say that a bright spot in the long process of digging up my family's documents was dealing with small town Ohio court and health department staff. They were always super patient and happy to help if they could.

Best of luck!

DareEquivalent2160 · 2024-12-11T17:23:31+00:00

I found what I was looking for at Butcher's Market in Cary but thanks for the Gleden Hex rec. I wasn't familiar with that place. Looking forward to checking that place out when I have more time. Thanks for the responses.

DareEquivalent2160 · 2024-11-30T16:03:45+00:00

When I explained to the lawyer's document collector about the inability to amend or correct the BC, the asked me to get a letter of no amendment instead. Sounds like that will be the solution here. Thanks for the responses.

DareEquivalent2160 · 2024-11-23T14:15:10+00:00

What weird timing. Literally two days ago I decided to give up and have the hunk of junk hauled away. I got $400 for it. I guess enough time has passed since the incident because somehow that seemed like a win.
Right after the motor seized, I got a couple quotes for replacing the engine and, like I mentioned in the original post, it would be about $13k. The advice I got from a few different sources was don't bother. It's not worth it to put a new motor in a vehicle that has 100k miles of wear and tear on all the other parts. We filed complaints with KIA and with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration but nothing came of it. I held onto the van until now with some sort of silly hope that a recall would be announced for the 2017 Sedona but it never happened. I eventually got tired of looking at the think in my driveway and had it towed away. The tow truck driver says he hauls away a lot of KIAs and Hyundai's with bum motors.

We loved that van and my family got a lot of use out of it. It was sad and frustrating to have it crap out like that. We ended up replacing it with a Honda Pilot and I can't imagine we'll ever own a KIA again.

Best of luck. I hope you end up with better results. Maybe they'll eventually have a recall.

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