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sarca

sarca

I upped my wrenchin skills, now up yours!
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Every time the winter seems to drag, I pull out my beloved bottle of Kahlua and start dreaming. I want to to road trip the tundra and 40 in tow...and just take off heading for parts unknown. Maybe just trail through
, meeting up with other like minded mudders and seeing a bit of the countryside. I could take 2 weeks for this..anyone else get the itch to just go and see? Stop at dorky roadside attractions, do some trailing and camping...just get away from this state for a bit. What do y'all think..am I nuts or just cabinfevered?
 
You're not nuts. We're planning on going back to Moab in 2014. You in?
 
I thought Id already sworn a blood oath on that Johnny...and hell yes.

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For the 2014 moab adventure i really wanna do an overnight run prior to the event out in the back country. Johnny, r your Gotham buddies gonna be out there again?
As far as short term, is spring tide ride still on the agenda? That's a nice easy expedition to start the wheeling season. I love beach driving.
 
sarca said:
Every time the winter seems to drag, I pull out my beloved bottle of Kahlua and start dreaming. I want to to road trip the tundra and 40 in tow...and just take off heading for parts unknown. Maybe just trail through
, meeting up with other like minded mudders and seeing a bit of the countryside. I could take 2 weeks for this..anyone else get the itch to just go and see? Stop at dorky roadside attractions, do some trailing and camping...just get away from this state for a bit. What do y'all think..am I nuts or just cabinfevered?
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Not crazy at all but I wouldn't trailer unless you have a wheeling specific destination in mind. A 4x4 tundra will easily take on any dirt road in all the states around here to get to out of the way places. There is most likely only about 25 miles of actual legal road in NC that the tundra won't do.

We used to do this all the time out west.... if we were bored and had a 3 day weekend coming up we would take off into the deserts or mountains and not see a road or anyone else the entire time.

If I was going to do it here i'd load up the burban and head off to small towns, maybe do a loop using back roads go south through to Georgia into florida then over to Texas, back up through Oklahoma then North east to West Virginia and back down.

If I was looking for a wheeling adventure i'd load up the 80 and drive to that "cove" place i've heard so much about. It's about the closest i've seen East of the Mississippi to do expo type wheeling. :cheers:
 
Not crazy,,,its just landcruising....i got the same dream
 
Burt88 said:
For the 2014 moab adventure i really wanna do an overnight run prior to the event out in the back country. Johnny, r your Gotham buddies gonna be out there again?
As far as short term, is spring tide ride still on the agenda? That's a nice easy expedition to start the wheeling season. I love beach driving.
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Not sure if they're gonna be there. I can find out though.



For a longer trip than to the beach with a great wheeling destination, I'm planning on heading out to Rausch Creek in PA for the Coal Mine Cruiser Classic in July. Anyone else wanna go?
 
GLTHFJ60 said:
Not sure if they're gonna be there. I can find out though.

For a longer trip than to the beach with a great wheeling destination, I'm planning on heading out to Rausch Creek in PA for the Coal Mine Cruiser Classic in July. Anyone else wanna go?
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This might be a god idea...I can send the huz and kid on up to Maine while I wheel and drink.
 
I think about stuff like this all the time. My plan of attack is to build up my f250 crew cab to travel with 3 kids in comfort. The f250 will be my support truck and will tow my fj40 or fj55. Unfortanetly for me my long tours around the US and central and South America won't happen for another few years once I retire out of the Army. In the mean time I will continue to build up my rigs and use them locally the few months out of the year I'm not deployed.

For me I like the idea of having a "chase" or support truck that carries all ur tools, extra parts, fuel, food and a place to sleep. Not to mention the ability to be able to haul ur land cruiser if it ever breaks and u can't fix it.
 
Coal mine is foreseeable. Burt should be ready to roll before then. Just need more $$ for parts.
 
Burt88 said:
Coal mine is foreseeable. Burt should be ready to roll before then. Just need more $$ for parts.
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That reminds me...I left a small tub of parts there at the Hamom..had a battery tray in it.
 
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sarca said:
Al- were is this cove place...
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I'm surprised this question did not spark up the usual responses.
There are lots of cool places I have explored in the east coast but most of the time I had to do some research and find them myself. Understandably, most people are not big fans of posting up grids to certain locations for fear of environment folks shutting them down.
 
SFROMAN said:
I'm surprised this question did not spark up the usual responses.
There are lots of cool places I have explored in the east coast but most of the time I had to do some research and find them myself. Understandably, most people are not big fans of posting up grids to certain locations for fear of environment folks shutting them down.
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I don't believe in doing it that way, it obviously doesn't work, the more people that know about it the more there are to fight if it gets threatened to be shut down.:cheers:
 
Heather and I have been talking about similar type trips. Since buying the farm we have been "stranded" here in a sense. We are hoping to have all the fencing finished this Spring/Summer and have the rest of the horses settled in here. We have good friends that are also horse people that will take care of the farm for us while away.

We have alos put wheeling on hold for too long as well as we have been dumping every extra dollar we have back into the property. But we are about caught up on what we wanted to be by this time and are looking at selling our mountain property this Spring as well. All that means that both the 60 and the Truggy will move to the top of the priority list. So we will hopefully be in a position to start taking some trips in the 60 and taking the Truggy to play as well.

One trip I have always wanted to do is Rt 66 from Chicago to LA. I also want to get to Moab, Johnson Valley and the Rubicon. A guy can dream :)
 
lt1fire said:
I don't believe in doing it that way, it obviously doesn't work, the more people that know about it the more there are to fight if it gets threatened to be shut down.:cheers:
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That is exactly how I see it. Seems to me it's the same folks that want to keep "secret spots " secret and u and me from riding at these locations are the first one to ask u to get involved when those same locations are threatened with closure.

either way back on subject

When and who is planning to go to the cove?
If the date falls between April and July I should be able to go.
 
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