With Pesach just around the corner, Yad Ezra V’Shulamit is committed to helping the needy during the time of year when poverty is most acutely felt. Although the Welfare and Finance Ministries offer a food budget allocation for Passover, it amounts to a meager 13 shekels (less than $4) per family, not enough to cover the price of even a single box of matza.   “This Pesach, we will distribute 30,000 food baskets to people throughout the country,” Lurie proudly reports. “It’s a lot of work, but when I sit at my seder table, I will know I did everything I could to provide food to needy families. That is the biggest joy of all.”

Anthony Ragone and the crew at 865 Motorsports & Body Works have restored and improved Jake Jennings’ Nissan Skyline Michael Patrick/News Sentinel

LANGE: I remember the first time I saw you, I had walked down to the pond and I looked across, and I saw somebody in that next field over there to the right. And I thought, “Fuck, I’m going to have a neighbor.” But then it turned out to be you, and that was swell.

The wide, ergonomic handle makes easier to grip for sore or stiff hands and the unique choice to have the grinding bit at a 90 degree angle to the handle makes reaching your feet even easier.

“I hate it,” Wilson told me this winter. “I hear from the public all of the time — ‘Why does this place look like a prison?’ People get really upset that they can’t get a closer look. But it’s just what we have to do — to stop people from doing stupid things.”

There’s a button on the tailgate of the 2019 Chevrolet Silverado that, when pushed, slowly lowers it to the open position. Big deal—that’s Detroit innovation, circa 2015.

Red Coins 13-15:  On the row furthest from the screen, walk along and you will see the shy guys holding coins in papercraft windows. Egg them.

“The biggest rule of the Buy Nothing group is there really shouldn’t be any money spoken about or exchanged,” Nofi said.

The roof is lined with an insulating material, and the canopy is a blend of 260-gram cotton and polyester with a waterproof coating. The shell is made of a super-strong plastic, and the lower shell is reinforced with a welded aluminum substructure and felt-lined honeycomb polypropylene panels. It’s more than strong enough to support two sleeping people or 23 cubic feet of gear the storage box.

My little spaceship tent, my home for the five weeks I was on the trail. Yes, this is some people’s version of fun. Yes, it’s a bit like Wild. 

I had assumed that the Sargent family would consider what happened to their son unfair. But I was wrong. In fact, they defended the Endangered Species Act with a conviction that surprised me, and they knew a lot about Devils Hole and the pupfish that swam there. Norine recalled the family taking trips to Devils Hole when Trent was a boy, teaching him about the pupfish. “Trent would just as soon give first aid and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to that little pupfish than have this thing go on and on,” Josh Sargent said. He acknowledged that his son was paying the necessary price for his actions. “He knows about endangered species, and he takes responsibility for what he did.”

Up front are KYB 41mm forks, similar to those on the Z900 but with internal setting changes for a softer ride. The soft settings resulted in a comfortable and flickable bike through the corners. A very fast and very experienced rider could notice some slight shortcomings during aggressive riding, but within the less than 200 miles we rode, I didn’t push the bike past its suspension limits.