Some insights on desert vehicles. This trailhead was 8 miles down a fairly good dirt road, something you wouldn’t want a car on, but nothing you need 4wd for. SO much slow driving. I took the road at 30 mph, which isn’t blazing, but moving along and I passed so many SUV’s and crossovers doing 5. 5! That’s going to be a long road. I would venture to say we were by far the most outfitted vehicle, having traction boards, a radio and AT tires, which tells me this is a hikers trail and off-roaders aren’t stopping here. Makes sense, all the off-roading is further down this road.
This rav4 has a damage multiplier brush guard for some reason.
This is a CX-5 with the tires I’m ordering for the GX (and already have been running on the cruiser). They look great on a CX5.
There was a car show in town this weekend for homecoming. It was a trump flag no mask extravaganza, so we mostly steered clear, but we stopped by the car show and shine for a few minutes (with masks on). I’m not really keen on this era of cars and I don’t really love this kind of car show (oooh, a polished supercharger. How...um...useful.) but pretty cars are pretty cars and I liked this rat rod. At least they drove there. We followed these guys for 100 miles.
This helicopter landed right in front of us on the trail, bringing back some dehydrated hikers. I can’t imagine how often they have this flight...its probably regularly scheduled these days.
Water...you should drink it in the hot desert. I feel like movies should have had this drilled into us by now.