LittleDog
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Howdy again all. I've been a member here for a while, but stopped checking in after Covid messed everthing up. Stupid Covid.
Always liked the old jeeps, and finally got one in late 2019, with plans to travel across the country. That did not happen. I made two aborted attempts, each getting maybe a quarter or a third of the way across. Failure, though I did award myself an 'Attaboy' trip to Dollywood and her new resort, on the last day of their season. (Highly recommended) You know, for trying at least.
Then everthing got locked down. I'm from New Jersey and things were pretty scary in the early days. I spent much time during seclusion eating and drinking too much, joining the rest of the nation in learning how to make bread and pizza, daydreaming about going somewhere, anywhere, someday, and endlessly attaching and removing various bits of the jeep. That, and slowly going nuts.
Cabin fever finally drove me insane, and I was banished, for my own good, to the left coast this past April; I was escorted across many state lines by my brother and the double eponymous jeep and dog.
We drove pretty quickly, due to time constraints. After an inaugural night in a tent, a scant hour outside of our starting point, my brother basically said, "Screw this camping jazz" and proceeded book Airbnbs for the rest of the 3,000 miles. We made it to California six days later.
The jeep was packed to the sills and gills with junk, and had a cargo tray and roof box filled with more heavy junk. I was afraid to weigh it. A basically stock drivetrain/suspension 2.0L Sahara with ~30,000 mile stock ATs handled everything well enough, including: going too fast for too long in general, extreme winds and/or rain, me being too lazy to disconnect the sway bar on washboard/rutted roads, elevation changes, passing and being passed.
Now, due to various foolish doings on my part, I've also been banished from the west coast. Relatedly, I did zero jeep-y things whilst in California despite wanting to. I think the original banishment must have worn off by now, so I'm on my way back to NJ to check. Only this time, I hope to have fun. (In the same jeep, with the same dog, with much of the same junk, driving across the same country; if going back is any better, I think that I can tentatively assign my brother a negative-fun value)
In the interest of having fun, I thought it would be fun to join in the forum again. At the very least, it will help me document the trip a bit better. So here I am now, in the back of the jeep in some hills in Arizona, possibly surrounded by coyotes. I've already been on the road for a bit already, but I didn't think of doing this until just now. Well, 'just now' was actually a few hours of slowly poking this out on a phone ago, so it's really way past roadtrip-bedtime now. That, and my phone running low on battery, has me leave off with this:
At a KOA sometime last week, but as close to the begining as I can find. If the coyotes don't get me, I'll post more later.
Always liked the old jeeps, and finally got one in late 2019, with plans to travel across the country. That did not happen. I made two aborted attempts, each getting maybe a quarter or a third of the way across. Failure, though I did award myself an 'Attaboy' trip to Dollywood and her new resort, on the last day of their season. (Highly recommended) You know, for trying at least.
Then everthing got locked down. I'm from New Jersey and things were pretty scary in the early days. I spent much time during seclusion eating and drinking too much, joining the rest of the nation in learning how to make bread and pizza, daydreaming about going somewhere, anywhere, someday, and endlessly attaching and removing various bits of the jeep. That, and slowly going nuts.
Cabin fever finally drove me insane, and I was banished, for my own good, to the left coast this past April; I was escorted across many state lines by my brother and the double eponymous jeep and dog.
We drove pretty quickly, due to time constraints. After an inaugural night in a tent, a scant hour outside of our starting point, my brother basically said, "Screw this camping jazz" and proceeded book Airbnbs for the rest of the 3,000 miles. We made it to California six days later.
The jeep was packed to the sills and gills with junk, and had a cargo tray and roof box filled with more heavy junk. I was afraid to weigh it. A basically stock drivetrain/suspension 2.0L Sahara with ~30,000 mile stock ATs handled everything well enough, including: going too fast for too long in general, extreme winds and/or rain, me being too lazy to disconnect the sway bar on washboard/rutted roads, elevation changes, passing and being passed.
Now, due to various foolish doings on my part, I've also been banished from the west coast. Relatedly, I did zero jeep-y things whilst in California despite wanting to. I think the original banishment must have worn off by now, so I'm on my way back to NJ to check. Only this time, I hope to have fun. (In the same jeep, with the same dog, with much of the same junk, driving across the same country; if going back is any better, I think that I can tentatively assign my brother a negative-fun value)
In the interest of having fun, I thought it would be fun to join in the forum again. At the very least, it will help me document the trip a bit better. So here I am now, in the back of the jeep in some hills in Arizona, possibly surrounded by coyotes. I've already been on the road for a bit already, but I didn't think of doing this until just now. Well, 'just now' was actually a few hours of slowly poking this out on a phone ago, so it's really way past roadtrip-bedtime now. That, and my phone running low on battery, has me leave off with this:
At a KOA sometime last week, but as close to the begining as I can find. If the coyotes don't get me, I'll post more later.
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