X7 Road Trip: Wilderness, Glaciers, Mountains and Bugs

Wild Blue · 06-28-2021, 02:20 PM

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Originally Posted by darksilkx1

Now you're just showing off! Great pictures, what camera are you using?

Thanks! Every picture taken with my iPhone 12 Pro Max!

pmgreenwood · 06-28-2021, 05:55 PM

Thanks again for recording another great trip with interesting reports and great photos

c-bolt · 06-28-2021, 06:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Wild Blue

Thanks! Every picture taken with my iPhone 12 Pro Max!

Hey neighbor! We drive by your house all the time. We're up fishhook a few miles but I see that ZHP and your new addition pretty regularly. We've got a Glacier Silver F15 and Melbourne Red F31 if you see me creepin' haha

Thanks for showcasing our beautiful state! I haven't read your other thread but I am now.

I've always wanted to drive to Deadhorse with the X5 and fam, but i doubt my wife would want to. It would be a fun trip though!

m5 guy · 06-28-2021, 06:34 PM

Fantastic write up. I really appreciated all of your pics. Normally when you hear about Alaska it is all about the winter time so nice to see the lushness of summer on display here.

PARTS@STBMW · 06-28-2021, 07:19 PM

This is awesome, thanks for sharing!

deemo319 · 06-28-2021, 07:39 PM

This is awesome. I want to explore Alaska at some point in time and your journey provides what it could be like. I really appreciate your post.

themnmd · 06-28-2021, 11:23 PM

Great photos , awesome scenery, a great piece of the USA and a wonderful story. Oh and one very dirty SUV. 😉

65lim · 06-29-2021, 12:48 AM

The X7 looks so good when it's dirty 😆😍

Wild Blue · 06-29-2021, 01:14 AM

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Originally Posted by c-bolt

Hey neighbor! We drive by your house all the time. We're up fishhook a few miles but I see that ZHP and your new addition pretty regularly. We've got a Glacier Silver F15 and Melbourne Red F31 if you see me creepin' haha

Thanks for showcasing our beautiful state! I haven't read your other thread but I am now.

I've always wanted to drive to Deadhorse with the X5 and fam, but i doubt my wife would want to. It would be a fun trip though!

Oh hey, man! You actually read my mind. I've been thinking about more road trips, and one I'm considering would be up to, or past, the Arctic Circle. That would be ohhhhhhh so long, though, and really not much diverse scenery. I've driven to the circle, but not past it. Would be an exotic trip, if nothing else.

Redwing · 06-29-2021, 10:33 AM

Another great trip, thanks for sharing. It almost feels like being there myself!

Greetings from your cars cousin in Europe

darksilkx1 · 06-29-2021, 11:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Wild Blue

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Originally Posted by darksilkx1

Now you're just showing off! Great pictures, what camera are you using?

Thanks! Every picture taken with my iPhone 12 Pro Max!

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Originally Posted by Wild Blue

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Originally Posted by darksilkx1

Now you're just showing off! Great pictures, what camera are you using?

Thanks! Every picture taken with my iPhone 12 Pro Max!

Wow! Now that's a completely unexpected answer.

Lady Jane · 06-29-2021, 05:32 PM

Wild Blue

Wild Blue · 06-29-2021, 10:09 PM

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Originally Posted by m5 guy

Fantastic write up. I really appreciated all of your pics. Normally when you hear about Alaska it is all about the winter time so nice to see the lushness of summer on display here.

M5 guy, should my next road trip be down to your neck of the woods? Alaska and Hawaii are always right next to each other on USA maps.

I might get just a bit wet.

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Another great trip, thanks for sharing. It almost feels like being there myself!

Greetings from your cars cousin in Europe

Looking good, cousin! Trying to identify that port there. German? Belgian?

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Oh, much thanks. I consider my Canuck friends to be next door family. If Trudeau reopens the border, maybe I'll make my next road trip to your neck of the woods. A cross-Alaska and cross-Canada trip would be most awesome. And I've had the best of times in St. Johns and with Newfies.

Bimmer_Seb · 06-30-2021, 12:04 AM

Nice, How’s the v8 doing? Gas mileage? Also do you put it on the lowest setting when taking pictures?

Redwing · 06-30-2021, 03:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Wild Blue

Looking good, cousin! Trying to identify that port there. German? Belgian?

A bit further north, Finland.

Wild Blue · 06-30-2021, 04:20 AM

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Originally Posted by calisebas105

Nice, How's the v8 doing? Gas mileage? Also do you put it on the lowest setting when taking pictures?

The V8 is doing great. Nice and smooth. But pop her into sport mode, and/or giver her a good jab on the accelerator, and she'll growl and pull like you lit the afterburner.

I was initially concerned with previous reliabliity of the V8, but that has improved in recent years. It's still early in the life cycle for me, but so far zero problems, and I'm loving it. I'm getting about 19 MPG overall, which is good with me.

Yeah, sometimes I forget, since you have to manually do it EVERY time, but I think the X7 looks good in pictures at the lowest setting, so I try to lower it for pictures. The #1 thing on my wish list from BMW would be for an option to lower the car automatically to a selected height every time, upon shutting off the ignition.

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Wild Blue · 06-30-2021, 04:22 AM

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A bit further north, Finland.

Nice! I was just in Helsinki a year ago.

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