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This is my nephew, Jake, pushing the limits on the Tacoma he essentially rebuilt from the ground up. He bought it totalled and fabricated an entire new frame from box section channel, shortened the wheelbase to 110 inches, installed a solid axle with a coil front end, and did numerous other...

I thought I'd share a couple of things I've been learning about Tacoma front disk brakes. Tacomas are known, rather sporadically, for developing what are mistakenly called "warped" front disks. That is, the brakes begin shuddering on high speed descents, then worsen until the problem is...

. . . bicycles? I started researching these in preparation for a project I'm planning. I want to circumnavigate the Grand Canyon by bicycle, taking in as much backcountry mileage as possible, and exploring and talking to people along the way. I plan to write a book about the trip, including...

As moderator for the Conservation and Land Use forum, I've just finished posting an editorial I wrote recently on the Roadless Rule issue. Thought I'd try to jump-start another topic in this forum by pointing your way to the main Conservation page - looking forward to discussing this one a bit...

Sitting in line at a stoplight last week in Roseann's Tacoma, minding my own business, I heard the sound of screeching brakes behind me. With nothing possible to do except mash my foot on the brake and watch my mirror, I saw a full-size Dodge pickup slam into the station wagon behind me, which...

My wife, Roseann, and I just returned from three weeks in Tanzania, on a journey many members here might find interesting, perhaps even enticing. This was an exploratory trip: We were reconnoitering a route for future vehicle-dependent trips we intend to lead into the Maasai Steppe country...

I'm continuously amazed at the number of people who think a tent shouldn't cost more than lunch. When I was guiding in the Sea of Cortez I assembled a comprehensive tent repair kit with which to patch up the $39.95 dome tents a lot of my clients showed up with. Flimsy fiberglass poles, "coated"...