No more epic trips, or, the Decline of DWeb

[Mike_Rupp]

almost got the posse together for a greatest hits of the colorado platue at the end of September, but my work changed my schedule and I took a week off to go backpacking instead.

I had epic constipation for a few days cause I at a 1lb bag of jerky in an afternoon, then I ate 6 oatmeal clif bars and solved the problem.

I think after enough epic trips they can be come rather routine. You need to look for bigger better adventures. Garrett discovered dark skinned ladies and next thing I know he stops telling me that he loves me when he hangs up the phone. Times change and people change like Kennith said.

A lb. of jerky in one setting? I'm sure that the term holy shit was quite fitting.

Damn, I bet that thing felt like it was coming out sideways.

 

[Axel]

Hey, good point - does my cross-country move hauling a trailer and doing a fuel-pump swap on the side of the road in rural Mississippi count as epic?

I would classify that as epic. That's up there with sleeping in the Rover at the side of some road in Arizona, waking up the next day and discover a 'Federal Prison Area - Do not pick up hitchikers' sign 1/4 mile down the road, or accidentally crashing (literally) the Burning Man festival in Blackrock Desert in the middle of the night.

 

[p m]

Hey, good point - does my cross-country move hauling a trailer and doing a fuel-pump swap on the side of the road in rural Mississippi count as epic?

Not sure if a fuel-pump swap in Yuma in July is better...

 

[p m]

Been there, done that, too. And we did Rubicon on the same trip... Drove all the way from NJ. There and back again...

That's the trip I was talking about. Was that epic enough?

 

[chris snell]

OK, worst choice of adjective ever. I repent. :bigok:

 

[Axel]

That's the trip I was talking about. Was that epic enough?

It was a great trip, yeah. So were Hole in the Rock and the Moab trips.

 

[kennith]

Hey, good point - does my cross-country move hauling a trailer and doing a fuel-pump swap on the side of the road in rural Mississippi count as epic?

Only if you stay in a hotel without hot water.

Cheers,

Kennith

 

[kennith]

I would classify that as epic. That's up there with sleeping in the Rover at the side of some road in Arizona, waking up the next day and discover a 'Federal Prison Area - Do not pick up hitchikers' sign 1/4 mile down the road, or accidentally crashing (literally) the Burning Man festival in Blackrock Desert in the middle of the night.

There are a lot of crazy places in the world, but people don't think about what we have in our own backyard.

The US is epic. 3,000 miles through swamps, hills, endless plains, mountains, deserts, and a beach at either end is a trip that's difficult to find anywhere else.

This may be a developed nation, and it may be fairly difficult to get yourself killed, but that's not the point. If you are having that kind of fun, it's a great wheeling trip. It doesn't have to be a foreign adventure. Although, some places I've been in the States have seemed pretty damned foreign...

You don't even have to take your Rover off road to have a blast from coast to coast. Just think back to that cultural mandate that is the American road trip. How many movies have been made about those things?

You can get yourself into so much trouble in the US, it's just outstanding.

Cheers,

Kennith

 

[NVRover]

Hey, good point - does my cross-country move hauling a trailer and doing a fuel-pump swap on the side of the road in rural Mississippi count as epic?

Only if Burt Reynolds and Ned Beaty show up, and dueling banjos start playing in the background...

 

[p m]

There are a lot of crazy places in the world, but people don't think about what we have in our own backyard.

The US is epic. 3,000 miles through swamps, hills, endless plains, mountains, deserts, and a beach at either end is a trip that's difficult to find anywhere else.

This may be a developed nation, and it may be fairly difficult to get yourself killed, but that's not the point. If you are having that kind of fun, it's a great wheeling trip. It doesn't have to be a foreign adventure. Although, some places I've been in the States have seemed pretty damned foreign...

You don't even have to take your Rover off road to have a blast from coast to coast. Just think back to that cultural mandate that is the American road trip. How many movies have been made about those things?

You can get yourself into so much trouble in the US, it's just outstanding.

Cheers,

Kennith

thank you.
I think I have my lifetime full of epic trips.

 

[Axel]

There are a lot of crazy places in the world, but people don't think about what we have in our own backyard.

The US is epic. 3,000 miles through swamps, hills, endless plains, mountains, deserts, and a beach at either end is a trip that's difficult to find anywhere else.

This may be a developed nation, and it may be fairly difficult to get yourself killed, but that's not the point. If you are having that kind of fun, it's a great wheeling trip. It doesn't have to be a foreign adventure. Although, some places I've been in the States have seemed pretty damned foreign...

You don't even have to take your Rover off road to have a blast from coast to coast. Just think back to that cultural mandate that is the American road trip. How many movies have been made about those things?

You can get yourself into so much trouble in the US, it's just outstanding.

Cheers,

Kennith

I agree 100%. I love road trips. I have taken a couple of coast to coast trips with just me and the wife, too. On those, we never went offroad, and drove her Freelander - because it gets better mileage than my Disco, and it is a good road car. Those were great trips, too. When you fly from NYC to LA, you never get to see all the good stuff in between. A road trip is the best way I know to explore this great country.

 

[Roverlady]

Agreed!

I drove from NC-WA with two girl friends after our college graduation. One friend was moving back home to coastal WA so we took her old Blazer packed full (and on the roof!) of just about everything she owned. We took two weeks and stopped to see friends/family and just about every national park and forest we could find along the way. Stayed an extra couple of days in Rapid City, SD because she got sick. Then stayed a few days in Great Falls, MT so we could spend some time exploring Glacier NP. We saw Yellowstone, Jackson Hole, the Tetons, the Badlands, Mt. Rushmore, Custer SP, Glacier, Coeur d'alene, Mt. St. Helens, Pipestone, etc etc. It was an awesome adventure and even though we did it as cheaply as we could (hello Motel 6) it was the trip of a lifetime. We didn't camp or go off-road really but we did have time to hike and explore quite a few areas.

After staying a few days with her parents we went up to Seattle for a day before flying home. I had the cheapest ticket ever that took me from Seattle to Oakland to Albuquerque to Baltimore to Raleigh!!

I'll say it was epic, even though it didn't involve a Land Rover!

 

[az_max]

my epic trip:
Flying across country to pick up a Rover I've never seen in person to drive across country. Only knowing what the ebay ad said and that something may be wrong with the transfercase. And the Rover sat for three months in a storage lot before I picked it up. Only off-roading was when I slid off the road in icy conditions in PA.

 

[Rover Mac]

I have only done one truely "epic" trip Scotland to Cape Town in an ex MOD diesel 109 and yes I did have a roof top tent (sort of)
http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj89/CelticRover/Land Rover Trail Photographs/a86a6a98.jpg

http://s270.photobucket.com/albums/...Photographs/?action=view&current=44a04d3c.jpg



Northern California Land Rover Club is running the Rubicon starting tomorrow and it has become an annual event.
http://nclrclub.org/forum/content.php


My RR P38A owned since 1998 now has 160K and is frequently used for 3 or 4 day trips on a regular basis, including the NR's (cancelled this year when my VC locked up the weekend before in Mojave)

http://www.discoweb.org/forums/showthread.php?t=34136

Don't do trip reports, but have taken lots of photos
http://s270.photobucket.com/albums/jj89/CelticRover/Land Rover Trail Photographs/

The whole point for me is having a vehicle that I trust (as much as any LR ). Can carry 3 people plus a dog and cover long distances in relative comfort (Colorado, Baja, Arizona, Utah, Washington and Oregon) and is capable of doing all but the most technical trails, and getting me home

 

[knewsom]

I have only done one truely "epic" trip Scotland to Cape Town in an ex MOD diesel 109 and yes I did have a roof top tent (sort of)
http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj89/CelticRover/Land Rover Trail Photographs/a86a6a98.jpg

http://s270.photobucket.com/albums/...Photographs/?action=view&current=44a04d3c.jpg



Northern California Land Rover Club is running the Rubicon starting tomorrow and it has become an annual event.
http://nclrclub.org/forum/content.php


My RR P38A owned since 1998 now has 160K and is frequently used for 3 or 4 day trips on a regular basis, including the NR's (cancelled this year when my VC locked up the weekend before in Mojave)

http://www.discoweb.org/forums/showthread.php?t=34136

Don't do trip reports, but have taken lots of photos
http://s270.photobucket.com/albums/jj89/CelticRover/Land Rover Trail Photographs/

The whole point for me is having a vehicle that I trust (as much as any LR ). Can carry 3 people plus a dog and cover long distances in relative comfort (Colorado, Baja, Arizona, Utah, Washington and Oregon) and is capable of doing all but the most technical trails, and getting me home

Nice, man! Great pics and awesome adventures.

Say, I seem to recognize a pic of that Camel Trophy 110... You wouldn't happen to be Steve from British Car Service in Inglewood, would you?

 

[benlittle]

A lb. of jerky in one setting? I'm sure that the term holy shit was quite fitting.

Damn, I bet that thing felt like it was coming out sideways.

Rob's so loose... I bet he didn't feel it

Chris, we're on for next month

 

[Rover Mac]

Nice, man! Great pics and awesome adventures.

Say, I seem to recognize a pic of that Camel Trophy 110... You wouldn't happen to be Steve from British Car Service in Inglewood, would you?

I have done trips with steve from BCS, saw him a couple of weeks ago in Big Bear, he mentioned he might sell the CT 110, the one you see in the photos in the snow belongs to Ron on NCLR who I think has his CT 110 for sale

The ancient photos of me driving a CT 90 was from when I worked as a motoring journalist in London for an off road magazine, LR lent the magazine the CT truck and it became my daily driver for 8 weeks, before they gave us a RR with the Italian turbo diesel, fun times.

As commented by others, the number of trails available for 'epic ' trips and adventures especially on the west coast is 'awesome'
I have my must do list of trails including Hole in the Rock

 

[Tugela]

My first epic trip was at age 7. I was living in Zimbabwe, attending public school, wearing a uniform, playing cricket, and racing BMX bikes when my parents told me they were going to Botswana. They said I could come with them for two weeks, in which case I would probably have a hard time roughing it and would have no other kids to hang out with. Alternatively I could stay with my grandparents in Harare and go to school. Easy choice.

We flew to Botswana, hopped in an early Series III 109, and drove across the Kalahari. Many adventures ensued. We were stranded for a while when we ran out of gas in the main onboard tank and the auxiliary tank was not delivering fuel somehow. We ran short on food at one point and had to eat tinned Vienna sausages. We got stuck in deep sand. We camped a couple nights in the Chobe reserve, where on the first night an elephant walked into camp and uprooted a tree right next to my tent. I slept through it. The next night a group of hippos ran past my tent, knocking out all the guy lines and flattening my tent. I slept through it, but the footprints told the story. How I survived those two nights remains a mystery.

Leaving the Landy behind, we flew into the Okavango Delta and camped on an island, exploring the surrounding waterways in a mokorro dugout canoe. Back in the Kalahari we did more game viewing and tracking on foot, based out of the Landy. We traveled back to Zim by overnight train.

This is where it all began for me. That's the trip that started my Land Rover obsession.

 

[chris snell]

Nicholas, you must be the real-life inspiration for Steve Young's fantasies.

 

[benlittle]

haha.. Steve Young. Now there's a name I haven't heard in a long time. Now those were the good old days.