Neither grandiose or great, but thank you none the less.

[Zeiderman]

Yesterday for the first time in 10 years, I did something adventuresome, used to do it all the time and then just stopped, gotta love life and "priorities". A couple months ago I started lurking and started to get some motivation and then got *issed off and decided to do something. What really got me going was the 96 XJ TAT thread (I have a 96 XJ Country, and live only 4 hours South of the MS. portion), and also some articles in the tech forum about maps and such, specifically a thread about the Mytrails app. So away I went, it's small and embarrassing compared to most of the posts on here but I am posting to say thank you from the very inner being of my soul.

I found some maps to Desoto National Forest and found Tuxachanie trail about 30 miles North of me, packed up the family (wife and dog), day pack, and loaded all up into our Hyundai-XJ is under the knife right now, but you gotta do what ya gotta do, right? Arrived at the trail early, but temps were 85 with uberhigh humidity, unloaded and away we went, 1 mile in, 1 mile out. That's it. Really liked the Mytrails app, and need to learn more about it but I saved it as my first trip, just because it was my first trip.

Again, thank you so very much, this has to be the best forum going right now, and I hope it continues for a long time, hell I might end up on Everest some day, albeit as the slowest, fattest, most out of shape man ever, but you never know.

 

[lumpskie]

This is awesome. I like that you documented your first adventure mile. You can look back on it after hundreds of thousands of miles and see your starting point.

 

[Zeiderman]

Thank you, by the way I've been following your build, I own an 89 GW, gives me hope. Haven't done to much to it yet, getting ready to sell my CJ5 for financing, and then let the fun begin. Got mine for $750 with a broken distributor gear, new gear, runs like a champ-ish, so far up grades on my end have just been swapping out the MC for a Holley 4412 and some other odds and ends.

 

[fortel]

Zeiderman

Where are you at in Mississippi? I grew up in Meridian and still have family there we come to visit.

The small trips sometimes can have the biggest payoffs. Keep on plugging away.

 

[PetitFrereArmada]

Every attempt is worth a lot. Keep on planning more small trips.

 

[Zeiderman]

Gulf Coast, Gulfport area.

 

[finn0427]

Thanks for posting, helps keep it real. Very easy to get caught in belief that an adventure requires extravagent rigs in far off locations. Thanks for your service. Been off the forum for a few years until recently a couple weeks ago. Was great inspiration then and I'm glad to see it still is. Many of our trips and plans have come from others we found here.

 

[4x4x4doors]

Missed this earlier but great to read.
Exquisite plans for eye-popping builds don't mean diddly if you don't actually go out and do it.
Congratulations!

 

[Zeiderman]

Thank you.

 

[lumpskie]

Thank you, by the way I've been following your build, I own an 89 GW, gives me hope. Haven't done to much to it yet, getting ready to sell my CJ5 for financing, and then let the fun begin. Got mine for $750 with a broken distributor gear, new gear, runs like a champ-ish, so far up grades on my end have just been swapping out the MC for a Holley 4412 and some other odds and ends.

That's a good looking GW you have... good deal on it too! If you don't make a build thread on it, keep me updated in my build.

 

[Zeiderman]

Thank you, have somewhat of a thread going on Jeepforum, should start one here, as I visit here more often.

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