Any (4-wheel) Overland types in here?

[Map8]

The Evil Knievel jump site is no big deal. Its just a big mound of dirt though it is a nice hike up from Shoshone Falls with pretty views depending on the time of year you visit.

 

[ScorpioVI]

Antelope Island on the Great Salt Lake, Utah.



Looking out at White Rock Bay.

On the eastern side of the island looking towards Ogden/Layton UT.

Bison are everywhere on Antelope Island. I was trying to slowly creep past this group and this cow and calf were not amused. They actually stepped into the middle of the road from the side and were acting as road guards while the rest of the herd kept moving along. I was stuck here by myself for 5 minutes waiting for them to move.

Bridger Bay at sunset

Sunset on the Great Salt Lake

Ended up spending a couple of nights camping out on Bridger Bay Campground on Antelope Island.

Just because we're living out of the truck doesn't mean we have to live like peasants. Sousvide ribeye for dinner.

Of course the little dude gets his share.

 

[ScorpioVI]

A little TV before bed.

Well, maybe a little fire first.

A little condensation inside the camper shell in the mornings.

The morning view out the window.

Really digging this Overland Pros Wraptor awning.

Toys

 

[ScorpioVI]

I was hating I-80 on the way to Idaho, kept getting highway hypnosis on it requiring constant rest stops. I decided to take the long slow way home from Utah Route 50. The "loneliest road in America" lived up to its name.

Honestly had no idea there was a National Park out here until I saw the signs. Decided to drop in for a bit.

The fast climb gave me altitude sickness. Started getting light-headed around 8500 feet. Made it to the Wheeler Peak trailhead then turned right back around and raced down the hill because I felt like crap.

And back on Route 50.

 

[ScorpioVI]

Wanted to camp in Alabama Hills but got there an hour after sunset. Really didn't want to be driving around offroad in the dark on unfamiliar trails so grabbed a motel room in Lone Pine for the night and decided to explore Alabama Hills at sunrise.

Driving north on 395 to Sonora Pass I see a sign for Manzanar Historic Site. Decided to take the auto tour. Having grown up with the horror stories (from my mom and dad who experience it in person) of what the Japanese did to Filipinos and Americans during WW2, I tended to be blase about the ordeals the Japanese-Americans suffered in that same period. This place got me teary-eyed thinking of the injustice the internees went through. It wasn’t quite the despair and desperation I felt visiting Dachau, and the Japanese somehow made beauty out of the bleakness of that high desert with their gardens and ponds, but it still had that haunted feeling of suffering and loneliness.

 

[Johndicezx9]

Wow, sobering shots of Manzanar.

I met the Houstons when I was just out of college and have a signed paperback copy of "Farewell to Manzanar".

 

[bikeama]

I love the eastern Sierra's. Manzanar was sobering to go through. I got chills when I read the list of men who enlisted when they were at Manzanar. I read "Frank Sakata Jr", I worked with Frank at the Tillie Lewis Cannery in Stockton Ca. I knew he was in WWII I did not know he was at Manzanar.

I camp out of a 2005 Tundra 4x4 with a Four Wheel Camper on the back. I have found most of the FWC owners were like I was a tent camper when younger. Nice to have a bed and heater when .

My trip in the camper to the eastern Sierra this month.

 

[Johndicezx9]

I think Ford heard the questions about using an F-150 and addressed it at SEMA...

 

[westie]

Scorpio, did I see your pics on tacoma world?

 

[dravnx]

I'm pretty sure you did.
Been watching Tacoma World ever since I bought my 2018 SR5. Trying to figure out what to do with it.

 

[ScorpioVI]

Scorpio, did I see your pics on tacoma world?

Which ones? I do post in there also. We just had a TW meetup in Newark last night.

 

[auntiebling]

I think Ford heard the questions about using an F-150 and addressed it at SEMA...

rubber band tire profile.... it'll probably look good in the starbucks parking lot

 

[RRR70]

rubber band tire profile.... it'll probably look good in the starbucks parking lot

Always cracks me up to see decked out Wrangler with $15K of body and suspension mods and 20”-22” ruberband tires. Mall crawlers.

 

[ScorpioVI]

Scorpio, did I see your pics on tacoma world?

I'm pretty sure you did.
Been watching Tacoma World ever since I bought my 2018 SR5. Trying to figure out what to do with it.

If you guys aren't doing anything next Saturday I'm hosting the Overland Bound meetup at Santa Clara Valley Brewing in San Jose. Overland meets are already usually Toyota-heavy but I got some guys from Tacoma World coming too.

 

[NorCalAthlete]

Dude next Saturday is the taco and beer festival. Poor timing man!

 

[Johndicezx9]

rubber band tire profile.... it'll probably look good in the starbucks parking lot

Or SEMA....

 

[Critter]

Bad ass pics Scorpio. Reminds me of some of my trips to Yuma AZ and the Salton Sea in my old Pathfinder before it finally went belly up. Maybe I should build another.

 

[dravnx]

Outa my range for a casual meet up.

 

[ScorpioVI]

Dude next Saturday is the taco and beer festival. Poor timing man!

We're having the meet at a brewery and there's a taco truck across the street. What more do you need?

Besides these food festivals always turn out shit anyway. There's gonna be long ass lines and it'll take you an hour to get tacos at one place, another hour to get beer at another place, another hour at another taco place before you come to your senses and go to Monterey Road.

 

[GreenDew]

We're having the meet at a brewery and there's a taco truck across the street. What more do you need?

Besides these food festivals always turn out shit anyway. There's gonna be long ass lines and it'll take you an hour to get tacos at one place, another hour to get beer at another place, another hour at another taco place before you come to your senses and go to Monterey Road.

I would expect more than one (Toyota) Taco truck at your Overland Meet.

Seriously though, I'm really enjoying your pictures and adventures!