Welcome to Goolsbee.org serving useless content from an Undisclosed Location Since 1997

Welcome to www.goolsbee.org, serving useless content from an Undisclosed Location Since 1997.

The goolsbee.org website is undergoing some redesign, but at least it works, unlike some well-funded, sprawling (yet useless) beuracracies.
Below you will find some links to the more popular sections.
Look for a new design sometime in 2005... maybe 2006. =)

--chuck

Mostly what you will find here is diaries of Vintage Car Rallies. I am the caretaker of a 1965 E-type Jaguar, known here in the US, as an "XKE". Like all things British, it offers moments of fun, surrounded by months of misery. My Dad is also a car nut, and has a nice stable of fine machinery. He brings me along as a co-driver on lots of fun events, I reciprocate when I can, or bring along one of my two sons... passing along that car guy gene I guess.

The most recent adventure was Martin Swig's Mille Autunno in northern California. Dad & I drove (not trailered!) the E-type down the coast, on the rally, and I drove it home. Tempting fate, I know... but it was fun. Enjoy the read.

You can read about when things go wrong here, when Christopher & I did the "Run To The Gorge" in miserable weather and re-learned Murphy's Law.

Classic Car stories (ranked in order of popularity):

Father & Son Summer Roadtrip 2003
The 1999 Cannonball Classic. (This site still gets daily traffic... six years after the event!)
The Forza Amelia 2004 Daily Rally Diary. Victory!
The New England 2000
The Forza Mille, 2001
The Forza Amelia, 2001
The La Carrera Nevada, 2000

Various Pictures:

Here are a bunch of random pictures and whatnot. Mostly where I share pictures of mysterious mechanical things with the helpful people on the E-type mailing list.
skiing (from a couple of years ago... no snow this year... shocking I know!)
chuck's work (digital.forest)

The ChuckCam.(and digital.forest's web cams)

The Goolsbee's in the UK (the original goolsbee.org web pages.)

This is jarringly ugly color, but shows how much I've travelled, at least in the US.

create your own personalized map of the USA

Yep, I've been to every US state except Hawaii. I've also been to every Canadian province except Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island (though I have seen PEI from Nova Scotia.) I didn't travel around Eurpoe enough when I lived there... I was too busy working. Something I regret. Oh well.

The state I've spent the least amount of time in? Probably Arizona. Only changed planes there a couple of times. Followed by Kansas (clipped a corner of it while driving coast to coast), Delaware (ditto), and North Dakota (rode across it once, in a train, in the middle of the night, in the spring on 1972 or so).

--chuck