David,
We saw you just a little while ago as you were heading toward Dahlonega on GA-9; I was the guy in the Jeep with the wide-eyed stare and drool coming out of my mouth.
I had just been telling wcbuyer on the way up that I intend to hit the lottery tonight, buy a GXV, build the Jeep more, and drag it behind as we tour the country.
NICE TRUCK. :drool:
Yup, guilty as charged. We were headed into town for some resupply since my wife is doing the AT approach trail tomorrow as a bit of a shakedown. Looks like we're going to just hang here now until the early AM.
Yesterday we had a good time running USFS 42 from one end to the other. At one point we met up with some US Army Rangers completing an exercise. They asked us to head down a different road for a bit to help extract a vehicle that had slid off the glazed snow pack and was headed the wrong way down a hillside. The rangers said they weren't allowed to pull civilians out (but they did do the biggest part of the digging -- I guess the prohibition is just on the pulling?!?).
Anyway, the stuck vehicle came out fine and the exercise pointed out some flaws in most recent re-organization of the Jeep's (full to the brim) cargo area. I'm thinking that maybe I need to move most all the recovery gear out and up onto the rack so that it doesn't tangle with the frequently changed cargo area.
/David
p.s. I only notice the more extreme staring -- the ones where they drive into my lane almost clipping my front bumper! My wife who usually drives behind me in the jeep when we're on the highway gets to see much more of the staring action and often reports to me on the radio so that I can be ready for anything "erratic" .. ;-)
