I noticed something funny when we bought Toyotie. I’d seen countless photos of Land Cruisers, studied them online, crawled around inside one, and so on, but I didn’t really know them. Everything was a little different than what I was used to in the Jeep or other vehicles I’d owned. Sure, I pretty much immediately […]

If you follow my blog for the hiking & backpacking posts, thanks for bearing with me as we return to the roots of this site with all the offroad vehicle posts. There are still a lot of those to come but next up will be a trip report and gallery from our backpacking trip to […]

I have a confession: I’m one of those people that enjoys trip planning almost as much as the trip itself. Similarly, it seems that I also get a kick out of plotting scheming planning a vehicle build. I hadn’t done one for several years, since I bought the Jeep a decade ago, but now I […]

Once I had made the decision to go with a series 80 Toyota Land Cruiser, the next challenge was to find the right one. There was the matter of the model year. I wanted a later model with the updated, more powerful engine and other updates, so my preference was for a 1995 to 1997 […]