Onward 4x4

When I was a kid, a family friend had an orange manual Jeep and we rode in it without wearing seat belts and no top--just bunch of kids piled up in the orange Jeep going places. The adult with us was not concerned with our safety--or perhaps he was concerned but the threshold of his concern did not reach un-belted kids in a Jeep with no top on... We did have a roll bar though. Fast forward many years and I find myself in Los Angeles in the early 1990s and was introduced once again the Jeep pictured above. A girl friend of mine at the time owned this Jeep and had it shipped from Chicago to...

In doing research about my upcoming journey, I am reading "Travels with Charley" by John Steinbeck. It is both delightful and concerning to see that the desire to go, just go anywhere, is not anything new. The young and old and new or established people all experience this longing to go places and see things and meet people and learn things. I have had this "bug" for quite sometime and finally, one reaches a point where the question becomes: are you going to shit or get of the pot buddy? John Steinbeck writes "In America, I live in New York, or dip into Chicago or...

This is the first post. I like to introduce Rhonda, a 2018 Jeep Wrangler. I bought this Jeep with adventure in mind and the road trip that is planned for 2020 is one that will be epic. It is a road-trip intended to prove a theory about American Society. One that will show our Society as what it is and not what we are told it is. I am being vague for a purpose-after all, my thoughts are only theories to be proven.