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Oops, the wrong photo was used to show how thick those deer steaks were! While driving across Nevada on the way home, we watched these guys for a while We don't have a lot of pictures from the long drive. After a few long days of driving we reached Michigan and dropped in to visit my...

Presidents day was a surprise holiday for me and it gave me a chance to prepare the Jeep for the rest of our trip. This is our first trip where an oil change was required mid-trip. At this time I also realized I was overdue for plugs, cap, and rotor. After working Tuesday and Wednesday we...

A lack of snow in Yosemite National Park meant we could not do our planned cross-country-ski excursion, but it also meant we would be able to camp outside the park instead of staying in hotels. We found quiet 4-wheel-drive accessible spots in Stanislaus and Sierra National Forests. It was...

Well, this is no longer an adventure in progress. I'm not sure if the threads get moved or people start a new thread elsewhere. We are back in Maine and most of the gear is put away. I have uploaded the highlights of the pictures we took during our 5 weeks away and ~9000 miles in the Jeep...

We're East-bound now. Excuse the brevity as this is from my phone. Death Valley is huge and beautiful. Nighttime temperatures were a little colder than expected (I saw 25 one morning after getting up and starting the percolator) but the camping was great. Saline Springs is worth another...

I should have started this thread sooner. We are winding down a Maine to California adventure and headed to Death Valley for the second half of this week. I had created a thread eariler about mounting a 100w solar-panel to the 1998 Jeep XJ in order to power our fridge and that work has paid...

If I slept under my 2A, I would wake up covered in oil! I think the stretcher mount sounds like the most feasible way to sleep up off the ground using a Willys.

The local sheetmetal place cut me some 16ga aluminum for mounting the panel. I drilled holes that would let it slip over the rivnuts that hold the roof rack down and drilled some holes to attach it to the panel edge 16ga isn't thick enough to countersink flathead screws but I didn't want to...

I wasn't able to just exchange the broken charge controller which was too bad because I had gotten an open box deal. The replacement panel and controller arrived and I got an extra set of roof cross-bars at the you-pull junk-yard. Saturday I mounted the charge controller and wired it to the...

The first box of parts arrived today. The panel will fit like the measurements said. I think I will go to the junk yard and get some extra roof-rack parts to make a somewhat removable attachment. Unfortunately the charge controller in the package has a broken LCD so I need to contact the...

I've just ordered a 100w solar panel + charge controller that I am planning to mount between the roof rails on my 1998 Jeep XJ. The panel should be enough to run an Indel B 51qt fridge indefinately. It will be charging the main group 34 Odyssey battery and if that gets full, it will top up the...

Great long exposures.

The tablecloth makes camp dining so much classier.

My current overlanding jeep: My toy jeep (1946 CJ2A):

My first modified jeep: The wrangler was fun, but not very practical The silver XJ had a lot of adventures before getting too rusty. It is still on the road to my knowledge and is driven locally.