There’s been a lot of chatter lately surrounding the holiday known as Columbus Day on the New Hampshire side of the border and Indigenous People’s Day on the Maine side.
I can already detect blood pressure rising and the polarized sides forming over this incendiary issue, so let me splash some water on it. I only bring this up because it got me thinking about other explorers, and my meandering stream of consciousness dropped me on the shores of cars with names that conjure up images of adventure.
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