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therelaxer previously said:
I wish I was semi-retired like you UPHILL. Let me look in to the trip, check with the little woman etc.... I want to do that trip you did to Zion, UT
Hopefully I will have my DO bumper and slider by then. I have the front end of my rig apart waiting for their arrival.
I am sure I will run into you before than.
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Your FJ is more than stock, but either the Zion, UT trip or the Mojave Trail trip can be made with a stock FJ. There weren't any considerable clearance issues or traction issues that I couldn't have handled stock (including stock skids -- if you can call what Toyota puts on the bottom "skids"). Since I was by myself, I was more conservative than I'd otherwise be, however, I didn't do any rock romping because the roads and trails were not "creek beds". On one occasion I was running across the desert ENE of St. George and ended up in the back yard of a ranch -- waved -- a guy waved back -- and I entered the road that led to the ranch. On two more occasions, people in trucks I ran into asked what "somebody from California" was doing out there. I would have joked that I was scouting meth lab locations for a raid, but they weren't joking so I kept my comments to myself.
And yes, semi-retirement is a good thing.
