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I did archaeological fieldwork there from 1994 to 2004, and it's where I first fell in love with 60 Series Cruisers. These tough old trucks are necessary for a lot of the people living there, since the roads are so bad and the conditions are so harsh. The country is crawling in Cruisers, often...

Something State is up to. According to my BIL, who works logistics, they only use Land Cruisers overseas. My guess is they're here to get kitted out before being shipped out somewhere else.

The offset third member, for that extra little bit of clearance. Genius!

The way it smells. It has a quintessential 60-series smell that my whole family identifies with.

I use GPSBabel, too, and like it. The only problem that I've had with it is that I have a really old Magellan GPS (I purchased it in 1999), and GPSBabel doesn't have an importer for it. So I just issue the commands from a terminal session, save the result as a text file, and have GPSBabel parse...

x3 on the Keyspan adapters. I've used a number of them at work and in the field over the last decade, and the only problem I ever have is my co-workers pinching/losing them.

Blew a head gasket on a rented 60 in '95, while we were crossing the Rub' al-Khali desert in Yemen. Drove it to our destination (Shibam) pinging like crazy, and got it fixed later that week at a local shop. Served us just fine the rest of our field season, no worse for the wear, and got us back...