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I was running severely behind schedule by the time I finished at the fort, so I took the highway route to Menard rather than take the roundabout route I’d planned. South of Menard there’s a nice shortcut, Whiskey Road, that runs across to London. The road was a windier and hillier than what...

The road turned back to tarmac just before my next stop; Fort McKavett. Trying to use digital zoom on my phone from inside a vehicle doesn't really work, but I thought it gave a nice Impressionistic quality. Or something :cool: Ft McKavett was a part of a string of pre-civil war frontier...

Starting to see more cedar trees and fewer mesquites along the roads. This was a comfort for me; as mesquite or Black Locust branches on the road mean hellacious thorns and punctured tires (being on OEM highway tires, getting a flat was my big worry on this trip). Those with terrible pollen...

LOL yeah I guess "Remote" and "Exploration" are all relative terms. That scrape of caliche out in the middle of nowhere is new to me, but it's somebody's main route to town, and even when you're in a Land Rover on some track in the truly backwater parts of the world there's probably still...

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60 miles later I was running out of daylight and was considering giving up on my planned route in the interest of time. I still had to get to Lake Colorado City. When I compared my plans to what the Google Maps told me, I realized that my next unpaved leg was actually a nice little shortcut...

Several more miles down the highway I turned off again, this time for ACTUAL TERRAIN (eventually) County Road 399 was a paved road that ran dead straight down past the town of Post. Eventually, after some dog-legging around fields, it lost the tarmac and turned into CR 308. This road ran down...

After saying goodbye to the little guy (I hope he settles in well and gets re-homed before too long, he was a very sweet and cuddly hedgehog) I made my traditional stop to say hello to the prairie dogs at Mackenzie Park (what can I say, I have an affinity for small potato-shaped creatures)...

My first expedition. Ish. Kinda. Only in the broadest possible terms. And even then, not really. I recently found myself needing to take a road trip from Austin, TX up to Lubbock, and I took the opportunity to get in a kind of soft-road, car camping shakedown for my new-to-me DD. The trip wound...

Looks good! I've lucked out the last couple of times and gotten there about a week after a rain, in the springtime. The cactus flowers are AWESOME. I'm glad you had suitable digs in Presidio; its always funny to me that the ****ty, flyblown, cinderblock border town is on the US side of the...

Awesome! I've got a 2wd Silverado, not the best off roader by any stretch, but 2wd vehicles have served me well in 90% of the terrain I see on my travels (In college I took my Grand Marquis through places I probably shouldn't have, and my exhaust system paid for it), and I've taken this truck...

I'm interested in finding out how bad those creek crossings in southern Llano County near Click are. Those granite gravel creekbeds can get deep, and I only have 2wd.

I've gone out to Big Bend Ranch SP a couple of times in my old 2wd Tundra with no issues, but I've stuck primarily to the 2wd-rated roads. My only trip to the Nat'l Park was while work was being done to Old Maverick Rd, so the only off-pavement work the Tundra got was a brief trip on the Glen...

I checked; no G80. A proper rear locker (ARB or similar) is on the wish list, but unlikely to happen in the short term. I had actually been wondering about adding weight over the rear end (near the rear axle, inside the wheelbase) to at least improve weight distribution, but I came to the...

I think I'll put the old, slow C-H compressor in the wife's car and add this to the shopping list: http://www.autoanything.com/wheel-tire/69A3199A0A0.aspx

I'm ditching the whole lighter socket compressor idea (actually I'm putting it in the wife's car) and getting something more along these lines: http://www.autoanything.com/wheel-tire/69A3199A0A0.aspxhttp:// I just need to do some more research to find a quality item.

I bumped up from the stock tires to something little taller/wider when I bought the truck, and the 265/70-17's fit fine. The power draw on the compressor shouldn't be an issue if I'm sitting there with the truck running, right? Fog cutter, et al., thanks for all the helpful links! You're...

I've got a post (2 duplicate posts actually) "awaiting moderation"?, but the gist is "I try to be very careful because I only have 2wd, and it's interesting that no one has mentioned any kind of lift, and does someone have a recommendation on a 12 volt compressor that can reinflate a tire...

Re: knowing how the gear works: I've pulled a few stuck vehicles with a chain and tractor, and I've used two pieces of carpet nailed to some 2x4s and a bunch of sticks to get my work truck out of the mud once. Beyond that, I don't know much. But that's why I'd like to get involved with some...

Last year I traded my old 2wd Tundra for an equally 2wd 2013 Chevy Silverado 4-door. I clearly wasn't paying much attention, because it came with ZERO (0) recovery points. I compounded my failure by then buying (only a few months before the OJ article was published) the worst-performing tire...