Recent content by Lee

Dan, First, I really enjoy your channel. My family moved to Alice '75~'80, I was in the 11th grade when we came back to the US. I'll get back there one day, there is so much I want to see. It was fun following your lap of Oz. As for the Jeep lights, I agree - anything would be better than the...

OK, circling back to the lights, I searched for information on hooking up the ARB Solis wiring harness to a Jeep Wrangler JL and I found a lot of nothin’. There is information on hooking up the lights to operate independently (this is what I did two posts ago) and some others using the Wrangler...

The two weeks before turkey day we had our first real snow, the picture shows this part of the road being clear but there where areas where I was driving on snow / ice. It’s been a minute since I drove a rear wheel drive on ice, and with the short wheel base the Jeep was a handful, even with...

OK, it’s been a minute since I added anything to the Jeep blog, been working on the overland truck with a trip out west while commuting the Jeep to work. This was a good summer for top down, doors off commuting, the weather was dry for long stretches the later part of the summer. I added an ARB...

After action report At this point I have dumped a lot of work / money into the build out of my truck, there is not a lot left on my list of ‘wants’ for the truck. The concept is a mix of camping (gear thrown in the back of a pickup) to full overland RV (Slide in Four Wheel Camper), leaning more...

Well almost... I have a buddy at work that I bounce ideas off of. He sent me a text asking if the 'stranded' in the desert was a stunt to convince my wife I need that new Silverado ZR2 Bison. And he let me know his text should not be misconstrued as advice or approval - our wife's talk so we...

Continued from above, Wednesday, day 14. In the morning, we packed up and crept slowly out over the exposed rocks to the viewing parking and the entry gate of Goosenecks State Park. While pumping up the tires out I noticed the A/C was dripping more water than I thought it should, over the past...

Commentary: I've posed the question before, can you really be an overlander without a drone? Camped out at the end of the gooseneck I could not get a picture that showed just how far out we were. Driving out, camped and just sitting by our fire can I was all too aware that we were out on the...

Continuing from above, Monday, day 12. We slept in a little after the hiking the day before, then we where off to Valley of the gods in Southern Utah, about 400+ miles from Needles Ca. With a stop at Walmart in Flagstaff for a few supplies it was getting onto evening when we found a camping...

Continued from above. On Sunday, day 11, our daughter loaded up Nana and headed off for the airport to return to Ohio. We packed up the time share and hit the road to continue our adventure. My original plan was to head for the Trona Pinnacles, Saline Valley (it’s the valley west of Death...

Continued from above. On Wednesday we headed North East on I-15 towards Vegas. I-15 defines the Northern boundary of the Mojave Preserve. From the town (or wide spot in the road) of Baker we headed south into the Mojave Preserve toward Kelso on Kelbaker road. Not a very original name for a road...

Continued from above. After out “remote Camping” escapade we decided to take it easy on the truck. We kept to dirt roads and other places that a tilt back tow truck could make it to just in case. We had popped out of the desert on to Lanfair Road not far from the Mojave Desert Heritage &...

I should add an addendum to the stranded in the desert saga. Where we were we had 5G service on the phones. My wife did her Japanese language lessons on Duolingo, talked to her sisters and answered some question from her work. For whatever reason she didn’t worry (that I could tell) and carried...

Continued from above. We left Tucson early Monday morning and drove ~400 miles to the start of the Mojave Road. Growing up in the south bay area of Los Angeles Dad took us camping a lot in the Mojave Desert. It was a reasonable distance from home for a weekend getaway. When I left California 30...

So, my nephew decided to get married out in California where I am originally from. My brother and his half of the clan still live out west but my parents moved to Ohio 20 years ago, Dad is passed now so it fell on me to get Mom out for the wedding. For the price of air fair I got my adult...