Recent content by mhiscox

Good call on the weather, given that in common with Portland, Blaine looks like the sun will come out again . . . about never. I trust being a long ways from an atmospheric river makes life more pleasant. Best wishes from all of us here. Enjoy the holidays.

Umm . . . Sure. :) It's mostly just sitting here. And you already built most of the hard parts and it'd be fun to watch you do a renewal to your usual impressive standard. But you'd have to promise to take numerous interesting places. And it'll be hard to work around my conviction that it's...

Here's a much better photo illustrating the now-level, newly-suspended XV-JP. All seems to be in order. (I took this photo right after the previous post, but given that I have no memory anymore, it apparently takes a month to cope with complex stuff like this. :confused: ) And happy...

Greetings, faithful readers. Enjoying your dark and bleak November? Mine is sufficiently boring that I decided it was finally time to write the update for work started when it was warm, bright and sunny. When we last left our temporary Jeepers, Chris and son Liam, they had just finished some...

The merit of a usable and affordable (and not too over-the-top) ER XV-LT that's been upgraded to this level is probably obvious. But you likely don't know of Jeremy's forthright and professional nature and his attention to detail, though I suspect it's pretty evident in the information and...

Just sitting here thinking of the enormous interiors Dan's and Michael/Yvonne's rigs have compared to the XV-JP. I really admire this Jeep and share Dan's hope it goes to a good person who will adventure in it. I like Dan's idea of paying for the fuel if the new buyer would hold up the side by...

Many thanks to Chris and his copilot/son Liam for taking the XV-JP to what might be considered it's natural habitat. #003 used to get out occasionally doing competent off-roading, and Paul took a couple of adventurey trips, but it's not done anything noteworthy since I got it back. And as my own...

I really appreciate the heads-up on the camlock struts, Andy. That would indeed be a considerable upgrade. I'll get some on order.

Geez . . . Paul, Ken and Mike in a discussion about anything is a priori going to result in a metric crap ton of "life experience." (Remember, guys, you are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. :confused: ) My take on the Tern windows has four parts. (I get to hijack my own...

ATTN: FAUSTO--Check the Private Message sent about the old roof ASAP. EVERYONE ELSE: Carry on bravely.

Paul, my man . . . I hope everything is good is Baja Canada and the family is doing well. I also hope your giant plush land yacht motorhome is serving you well. (Kidding, folks--it's a little Class C which is now beautiful inside after Paul's attentions. It does, though, easily have twice the...

Thanks for being inspired. Or envious. Either one is valuable to me. As I age further from doing anything significant with #003, being inspiration is an okay accomplishment. In a few minutes, I'll be sending you a private message with an offer of one of the most dubious gifts ever. :unsure:

Well, dang, Ken. Not surprised, but it's always sad to see one of the "overlanding before it was cool" group sell their long-term rig. Good luck with the sale. And to the other 232K members . . . You should know that this is a very nice rig with great capability and if you are ready to move to...

Aw, shucks. :) But you are inarguably right about the limitations of Version 1.0 of the tent. It was an evil thing in the rain, snow or ice, as folding it back up left the wet tent to drip down on pretty much the entire area of the cabin. It wasn't any treat in high winds, either, as it put you...

Thanks for the kind words, Jer. There can't be too many left who've been in on so much of the project. It has, in fact, now been 17 years since I got the ER. There sure is a lot that's changed with overlanding, the Portal and the XV-JP since then.