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Thanks for the TR! Makes me want to pack up and go!

Great read! Thanks for posting. The photos of the packed rig got my blood flowing - something about the excitement of a trip. And the trail shots and scenery remind me of offroading in the American Southwest - lots of trails through dry creek beds and then up into mountains. Beautiful scenery...

These are proving durable vehicles. I'm at just under 200K. DIY air bag swap isn't that difficult, and you'll be good for many 10s of thousands more miles. Yeah, I'd do them both.

I'm not a DV expert, but while March might be "shoulder season" for the entire population, I think it's prime time for DV. That said, the remote sections were still very remote, but when we got onto paved areas, such as Stovepipe Wells / Mesquite Dunes and Badwater Basin, it was relatively...

(Continuation) Refreshed after our hot-springs sojourn, we headed north on Saline Valley trail, over North Pass. It was cool to see patches of snow on the trail and pines at higher elevations. One of the guys at the hot springs suggested a little out-and-back detour down a side trail to check...

(Continuation) Death Valley is approximately the same size as the state of Connecticut, and we were reminded of the scale as we continued toward our camp destination at Eureka Dunes in the northern part of the park. Long, wash-boardy trail heading north to the dunes Death Valley humor...

As we started planning a couples vacation with friends Chuck and Pam, I immediately thought of remote, overland adventures. March is supposed to be a great time to explore Death Valley, so I threw that out as a destination for a 5-day trip. Hint: wildflowers can help sell a Death Valley trip to...

Hey, thanks. If that came through, I must have done a decent job with the trip report - we had a blast! Sorry to say, I never wheeled with Ed. He went to our church, and he certainly whetted my appetite for off-road exploring with many great stories, but we weren't into offroad exploring at the...

Just posted a Trip Report in the Adventure section. Many nice pictures of the Land Rover taking us on a great adventure in AZ. https://expeditionportal.com/forum/threads/winter-wanderings-in-az-gila-canyon-colorado-river-valley-kofa-swansea-and-beyond.221988/

It's passenger side. Yes, my understanding is that Oztent can zip to that (Foxwing is made by Oztent), but suggest you check to make absolutely sure. I mentioned the privacy, and I was thinking of getting an Oztent Tagalong or other, so we'd have a place to change clothes when sleeping in the...

For sale: Oztent Foxwing 270. $400 (Phoenix, AZ, in-person pickup only). Used for just one trip. Solid on the trail and the interstate. We were hoping the side extensions would provide privacy, but not really. Package includes: Foxwing 270...

Yeah, us too. It was nice to start with a "what else can we do?" approach and end up finding so much interesting, beautiful stuff.

Thanks for the posting! We've made a couple trips there, and I still feel we've only scratched the surface. Looks like you had a great time! Absolutely right!

...Continued Today's trails took us across the Bill Williams River and then into the Rawhide Mountains wilderness, heading east toward Lake Alamo. It's always nice to see a river in the desert (note the fully packed vehicle) Of course, Obie wanted to get out and explore A little tangent on...

...Next part We continued on dirt to Swansea ghost town, where we camped for the night. There are developed campsites and even nice outhouses. The outhouses were unexpected and kind of my rescue because I skimped on one of my key packing responsibilities: toilet paper. We got into Swansea at...

Next part... After a hour or so viewing all the petroglyphs, we proceeded to Yuma and then followed GPX route for the AZ Peace Trail along the Colorado River. It was a funky start, where we had to go through a gated park-model community to access the BLM land. The guy at the gate reluctantly let...

Welcome to 2021. Covid nixed plans for a longer, out of state trip, but we still had some time off and wanted to bust out for a multi-day camping trip over New Years. Laurie is always concerned about cold weather during winter trips, so the planning parameters were: Stay in AZ Try to stay in...

I've been running 265/65/18 BFG ATKOs for the last 7 or 8 years on my LR3. I did a little trimming of the plastic liner on mine but I can ride at access without rubbing. I might have been able to have a little on full turn or somesuch, but it's been so long and under normal circumstance of...

Wow, this looks familiar! We were out for 4 nights / 5 days in the same area around New Years. I'll be working on a TR soon. We started in Gila River canyon near Dateland, then hit the AZ Peace Trail north from Yuma, heading over to Swansea, over the Bill Williams, then to McGuffie cabin and...

I know you said you don't have the 3rd row, but just for reference, it's not optimal for a big dog :) Before anybody calls the SPCA, this was from a trip with 2 vehicles but we took a short side trip with 7 people plus dog loaded into the LR3. The poor dog only had to travel like that for 10...