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14 October 2019: Made the trip across the desert from California back into Arizona and up to the Sedona area for a few days of calm and some exploration in a favorite place …
13 October 2019: Finished out the intense weekend with a couple of “must-see” southern California locations — Hollywood and the beach …
12 October 2019: After a morning visit to Chaparral motorsports we headed out to Johnson Valley for an interesting afternoon at the home of King of the Hammers where we got to check out some of the big rigs with GenRight Offroad …
11 October 2019: A very busy day today with the LON Top Ten group as we learned more about performance vehicles with stops at Gibson Performance Exhaust and CBM Custom Built Motors before taking some time to visit a local middle school where we spoke to a group of girls about our off-road experiences and the opportunities in motorsports and the automotive industry …
10 October 2019: Made it to southern California for the LON Top Ten Weekend where we got a quick start at The Fab School learning about metal fabrication, getting some hands on welding time and checking out some race vehicles …
9 October 2019: Detoured through the Joshua Tree National Park this afternoon for a glimpse of the otherworldly landscapes and a bit of exploration …
8 October 2019: Took the desert route instead of the highway as soon as it was possible, heading to 29 Palms, California, for a couple of days of desert solitude. 29 Palms turned out to be a perfect “halfway” point with some opportunities to explore nearby…
THIS MONTH:
Attending the Ladies Offroad Challenge Top Ten Weekend in October as one of the “highest-points” challenge participants from this summer’s 10-week challenge. This four-day adventure, “somewhere in southern Californie” is led by Charlene Bower and will be full of surprises…
COMING UP SOON:
A short break to enjoy the number one destination on USA Weekend’s “Most Beautiful Places in America list.” Sedona, AZ is surrounded by 1.8 million acres of national forest land, with great jeep trails that wind in and out of a rugged landscape defined by pinnacles, spires, buttes and domes…
Back to Paris to visit friends and familiar places…
ABOUT JOHNSON VALLEY
Johnson Valley OHV area is home to King of the Hammers, and contains a varied landscape punctuated by steep red rocky mountains, rolling hills, open valley, dry lake beds and sandy washes. Elevations range from 4,600 feet at Hartwell Hills to 2,300 feet at Melville Dry Lake. Johnson Valley offers challenges for every skill level. The southeast portion has the “Hammers,” a large mass of hills for expert rock crawlers. North of the Hammers is easier terrain that includes some small dunes and Anderson Dry Lake on the western boundary of the area is also popular with off-roaders…
ABOUT GENRIGHT
GenRight, based in Simi Valley, California, offers the most complete line of aftermarket off-road Jeep products available. GenRight is short for Genuine Ideas Engineered Right and their products are designed to withstand everything from the terrain of the daily commute to the exploration on a back country off road trail. GenRight products are built to functionally take a beating while aesthetically give your Jeep the look you want. The company is also an official sponsor of the Ultra4 Race series…
ABOUT CHAPARRAL
Chaparral Motorsports is one of the largest motorcycle accessory and vehicle dealerships in the country. Chaparral Motorsports now encompasses a 160,000 square foot footprint. Started as a family motorcycle parts business, Chaparral Motorsports has developed into a multi-line motorcycle and ATV dealer, offering Honda, Yamaha, Kawasaki, KTM, Suzuki, Can-Am, Polaris and Kymco atv, motorcycles, and utility vehicles…
ABOUT CBM MOTORSPORTS
CBM Motorsports™ is a chassis dyno tuning, racing and performance engine building, parts and accessories shop located in Colton California. The CBM product line includes custom grind camshafts, CNC cylinder heads, LS racing engine blocks, throttle bodies, connecting rods plus billet parts and accessories and custom wiring harnesses…
ABOUT GIBSON EXHAUST
Gibson Performance Exhaust is the industry’s #1 manufacturer of street legal, high performance exhaust systems for trucks, SUV’s, diesel, and offroad. Every Gibson product is designed for hassle free, bolt-on installation with professional looking results. Applications are available in aluminized or stainless steel and remarkably engineered to ignite the maximum performance of the engine…
ABOUT THE FAB SCHOOL
The Fab School, founded by Troy Johnson, offers instruction on the fundamentals of metal fabrication and Digital Design & Manufacturing. The curriculum embraces the hands-on approach to learning, and the small class size is designed to allow for group work as well as individualized attention. The school has been educating students on the technical skills and theories of fabrication since 2005, providing hands-on training in a real world, working fabrication shop environment…
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MORE NOTES FROM THE ROAD:
1-7 October – Girl Gang Garage
16-30 September – Women’s Wheeling
1-15 September – Long Island
9-31 August – Serbia
1-8 August – #LONCON2019
16-31 July – Roadtrip to Atlanta
1-15 July – Cape Cod
15-30 June – Eastern Long Island
1-14 June – Bantam Jeep Festival
May – PA Trail cleanup
22-30 April – Minnesota
16-21 April – PA Trails
1-15 April – New Jeep
15-31 March – Paris
1-14 March – Arizona
15-28 February – San Antonio
1-14 February – Sedona and Glamis
January – Iran
December – Holiday Road Trip
16-30 November – Senegal
1-15 November – Paris
October – New York
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REFLECTIONS
A quick overview of impressions from a stop in Cairo during our recent scouting mission in Egypt and Sudan … [read]
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A look into south-eastern Algeria on the border with Libya and Niger: overlanding with the Tuareg in one of the most remote corners of the Sahara … [read]
