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Another thing to consider is that keeping it in the truck cab is a better idea in bear country.

Washer tub is an amazing heat source - just look at how far back everyone is standing from it- and it was pretty cold!

I agree with Michael - most of my Speed Graphics sold for around $200-$250 in functioning condition. I did have one that was really nice with a great lens on it but it went for only around $400. There's a local used camera store (Wings Camera) that sells your old equipment on commission. He gets...

Second the Speed Graphic idea (although I've sold all of mine) - at one time had about six of the things - great camera.

4 distinct generations of cameras At the front - my grandfather's early 1950's Minolta Super A - used by him, my father and myself. On the left my Dad's pride and joy - his Hasselblad from the 1960's. In the center the Canon F-1 I carried for 25 years and on the right the current lump - a Canon...

Another reason to support smugmug is that Baldy also runs the www.advrider.com website as well as www.DGRIN.com - plus I like the way that smugmug works (much, much better than photobucket) - by subscribing to smugmug you help support those other websites. If you usubscribe using one of the...

I just bought a Canon 9000F flatbed scanner from B&H Photo - $174 with free shipping. Much better than my previous Hewlett Packard flatbed and it scans slides at 9600dpi. All flatbed scanners are somewhat slow when scanning film or negatives but this one does a good job (and a great job on...

Gabriel - just a little over a year old carrying his blanket and his raccoon

Remember - this was a $600 Buick and we had planned all along to fly back home - the Buick would never have survived the trip home with all of the mechanical issues it was developing after several thousand miles of less than optimal roads. We had originally planned to see if we could sell the...

With no other alternative we locked up the car, went back to the ford and waded across, and hiked the final mile to the beach. There we found a few old deserted fishing shacks, a beautiful remote beach, and no sign whatsoever of the supposed motel. With a complete lack of other options we hiked...

After driving past Lake Nicaragua (where fresh water sharks live - no swimming for us) crossing into Costa Rica was a pure joy. Instead of being greeted by machine gun toting soldiers and the inevitable mordida we were welcomed by an efficient, pleasant representative of the Costa Rican...

After Guatemala border crossings got more interesting (and expensive) - El Salvador struck us as being the most impoverished country we traveled through. At the border with Honduras we saw evidence of the "1969 Soccer War" from five years earlier when the two neighboring countries started...

I think it was a 1966 model (could have been a '65) - I remember Dad paid about $600 for it. Most of the trouble started soon after we left Atlanta - mid-afternoon somewhere in Mississippi we blew a radiator hose due to a faulty water pump and the car overheated. We limped the car overnight to...

Buick Electra 225 that is.... Found this old slide from 1974 of the Buick 225 Electra we drove to Panama in 1974 for my Dad’s thirty year high school reunion ( Class of 1944 Balboa High School, Panama Canal Zone) This was in northern Nicaragua in front of a field of the biggest cotton...

One of my friends just bought this off craigslist - he says they are are around $3600 new - he's got about $1500 in it. Its a pretty nice rig - check out Quicksilver campers on the net. You can also drop it into a standard 4 x 8 utility trailer too.

I've still got the Canon F-1 I carried for 25 years - it was my dream camera back in the day when the AE-1 was brand new (I had one of those too along with a bunch of other Canons). I started out with one of my Dad's Minoltas and decided to move up when I was chased off a photographers stand at...

CXheck the website is up for information on the 2010 Solaros SAE2010 event and Land Rover Rally at: www.2010sae.com/ It's only fair that since so many of our group have become regulars at the MAR that some of you "northerners" make the effort to come down to our event. We have some very...

I'd make a plywood panel that would strap to the backside of the spare tire - it would act as a handy table top when you were in camp - just fold down the tire and you'd have an instant table. -oops - sorry didn't see the earlier post with the same suggestion

ipgregory is right on target with the control that you can obtain using a left foot braking technique with an automatic - especially in rocky terrain its a great benefit. Very steep descents are where the stick shift has a real advantage. Either gearbox takes a different technique but it...

I prefer a manual for various reasons - mostly the lower gear ratio in first gear for descents and a little more control in some situations but I was very impressed with my 3.9 powered 1991 Range Rover with an automatic. It easily went just about anywhere I wanted to go with it and let me...