Toyotie’s Birthday Bath 9/11 is a day that will live in infamy, of course. But for me, there’s a silver lining now because 9/11/11 was the day that I purchased Toyotie. We recently passed the one-year anniversary of ownership. As a birthday present, I decided to detail Toyotie for the first time. When done properly, […]

When I left off in Part One and Part Two, we’d just completed Usal Road and arrived back at pavement at Four Corners. From there we drove north on Chemise Mountain Road, which was much like a (mostly) paved version of Usal Road. Before long we reached Shelter Cove Road and began the big downhill […]

The Lost Coast The Lost Coast really came to my attention when we went on our first group offroading trips back in 2002. I’d heard the term before, and knew from a previous road trip up the California and Oregon coasts that it was an area where the highways went inland, strangely bypassing the far-western […]

While at Overland Expo 2013, I made sure to check out as many camp kitchens as I could. I knew that I wanted a proper chuck box for my own kitchen setup, and I really needed to get one prior to moving forward with that ongoing project. There wasn’t much point in buying things that […]