Travel 7848 miles through the desert southwest - a 2025 adventure
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The Cabeza Prieta.
Our trail was the El Camino Del Diablo. Border patrol was active. As was the national guard. This sector used to be hot. This was 3 months into Trump and it was pretty tamped down.
The border patrol drags these tires along the road and you can see fresh footprints if anyone crosses. Simple genius.
It was pretty isolated. Lots of views of the distant border wall as well as construction for more.
This was supposed to be our next night campsite but we rolled into it by 11 am. We
Kinda roll hard.
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Round noon we ran into a chatty Border Patrol guy. White dude. A bit of a Barney Fife type. We were asking all the questions we had some up with while riding the border and Jonathan saunters up eating pistachios. Barney looked at him, dead serious "You are not going to leave those there...." pointing at his empty shells. We all though he was joking then the launched into some spiel and we started picking up shells.
We were supposed to meet my buddy @JackA north of Phoenix the next morning so we turned north at the Yuma range and picked our way around Phoenix on mostly gravel roads to get dinner and a campsite before dark near Wickenburg.
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We were supposed to meet my buddy @JackA north of Phoenix the next morning so we turned north at the Yuma range and picked our way around Phoenix on mostly gravel roads to get dinner and a campsite before dark near Wickenburg.
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I was stoked when he told me we were doing the "back way to Crown King" trail but also a bit nervous my whale 200 would make it much less the FJ60 on 31s
But the trail was awesome and we all made it to the top.
But the trail was awesome and we all made it to the top.
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Crown King is a crazy cool mountain town where we feasted on beer and burgers before spending the afternoon exploring mines and mine trails. We barely made camp that night before a massive thunderstorm hit.
The mine was my sons favorite thing of the trip.
The mine was my sons favorite thing of the trip.
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The next morning we got to drive around in the snow and check out some old structures.
Our crew took some damage the night before. A couple of ties and some dents. Arizona does not play.
About 3 we split up and rolled out to Pine Top for some superb pizza and a hotel. We got cleaned up as it was the last night of the trip.
The next day Jonathan and Laird had a nice ride around Globe. I'll let @WharfRat post some pics of that
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Our crew took some damage the night before. A couple of ties and some dents. Arizona does not play.
About 3 we split up and rolled out to Pine Top for some superb pizza and a hotel. We got cleaned up as it was the last night of the trip.
The next day Jonathan and Laird had a nice ride around Globe. I'll let @WharfRat post some pics of that
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Same here…
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It should be a full ass frown.
The second leg started a bit crazy. 3 of the 4 of us landed fairly early in the day because we had flight issues and Laird was the short straw and had a much later flight.
We did not want him to have to deal with a Uber at midnight so we drove his HJ60 to the Tuscon airport and then had dinner.
We camped again at Beno's shop. I was keeping up with Lairds progress back until the whiskey got me and I went to sleep when I saw he was 15 miles out.
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I woke up the next morning to a bunch of missed calls and no Laird. Turns out he blew a head gasket on the way back to Sonoita from the airport and had to sleep on the side of the road.
We spent the morning trying to put a bandaid on it but by 10 am we had to make the call. Smokey was dead. Amazingly, Johnny offers up his h55 equipped fj60 and we were off to the races.
Johnny had spent a lot of time working the SW part of Arizona as a wildlife and border patrol officer and he sent us that way. Organ Pipe was the destination for the day
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My 6' meat head son was riding shotgun.
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This place was great. It has a nice off road loop with tons of great cactus.
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The coolest part was the long road along the border wall
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It turned out to be a cracked head so naturally everything was replaced with OEM Toyota parts.
A photo dump of the trail I found around Globe in the Tonto Basin. AZ was so good.
@OGBeno, whats this money looking animal we saw?
Sorry Johnny…
Sorry Johnny…
Sold last week!!
What was damaged and what got repaired/replaced ?
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Why is that rat in Arizona?
Everything except for the exhaust. New owner was going to install a new exhaust.
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I folded in a family vacation in Scottsdale after this leg. We had a blast.
This leg plus my Scottsdale stuff was 1600 miles. SteveO and I parked at a friend of mines place in north Phoenix whikr Laird and Jonathan took theirs back to Beno's for more love.
Sending back messages to HQ
This leg plus my Scottsdale stuff was 1600 miles. SteveO and I parked at a friend of mines place in north Phoenix whikr Laird and Jonathan took theirs back to Beno's for more love.
Sending back messages to HQ
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yes but only if the humidity is also correct