Back in 2002, I took this photo of Carrie and the Jeep on top of Copper Mountain near Bodie. When I posted it to the site, I mentioned that I thought it looked like a Jeep ad. Fast forward to last week, when there was a short contest announced by the Jeep twitter account: they’d […]

Last month I received a very nice email out of the blue, from a guy in Chile. I thought it was cool enough that I should share it. The subject was “Your jeep inspired me!” “This may sound weird to you, but a picture I saw on your webpage inspired me to buy a green […]

Part ten! I’ve rarely had ten posts in a month, much less in a series. And this is the 13th post this month, making it my busiest blogging month ever. The evidence is clear – I really need a new job. So there we were , a few dozen yards beyond the visitor center on […]

Thursday on the Big Island was a big day: we were heading to the top of Mauna Kea, a whisker below 14,000′ elevation. First, we apparently needed another vehicle. Almost all of the car rental companies specifically list in their contracts that you may not drive on Saddle Road, which roughly cuts across the center […]