The top is on...

I put the last piece of the Scout together, kind of a milestone...

She was a little stubborn going on... 

but, there she is.

Our niece and nephew came to visit for Thanksgiving...

Adam

he helped me put the top on

Alexa entertained the dogs...

Debbie, my lovely wife Cindy, the kids and the dogs

Short trip to Ocotillo Wells

My buddy Norm and I went to his place in the desert to fix some flood damage.  I took the Scout with the promise of some mud holes...

Oops!  The right front is in a hole and never hit bottom.

A couple of things I learned:

     The mud in this desert is super slimy

     Do not follow quad tracks

     Time to rebuild the posi

     or win the lottery and get some lockers.

My Scout next to Norm's uncle's mid 60's boom rig.

We did not need the boom rig to get me out, just Norm's winch.

It was about 109 degrees down there so the work went slow, but we got it done and had some fun.

Santa Rosa - Adopt A Trail - Scout's West Club

We gathered to eradicate graffiti and had some fun!

Robert, Mark, Norm, Me and Sam's rigs

Dumb butts graffiti

more of same

Norm and Robert going for it

My buddy Norm, he is not a member, but he dove in

Hey, Jeeps are welcome when they help out, right?

More silliness

and the covering of the silliness

The original dumbass graffiti moron

Mark doing his thing

Public service

From my vantage point crawling high to paint - That is Norm's '55 Willys

and my rig

We tried to blend the paint into the rocks as much as possible, even throwing sand on it, but...

More paint!

more idiocy

Mark covering idiocy

even more paint

catching what we missed on the way up

After the painting we headed for a trail to wheel

On the way up Sawmill

following Mark and Joe

Pretty nice view from up there

Just after I towed Sam's Blazer up the hill, my friends let me down and did not get pics or vid of an IH towing a Cheby

On last gratuitous pic of my rig and the view

An Aline Camper for the Scout

Found this for sale in Idyllwild...

Cindy liked it so we bought it.

Torsion axle is well suited for rough roads/no roads and it is light and small, with a cargo deck on the back.

I had been looking for a small, light pop-up for a while.  It has what we need.

Pretty much done, and contrasted with a modern 900 lb. vibrator

My nephew, Jed, road his Harley from Tampa, FL to Idyllwild in 3 days...

Me, Jess and Jed

Me, Cindy and Jed

Jed continuing his trip

Jed at the gathering place for 900 lb. vibrators

He is not in the pictures because he owes me some from his camera... hint, hint.  But, we have his American muscle next to mine.  Of course his has ABS and Cruise Control and mine doesn't.  40 years makes a difference.

My daughter Jess and me

My better half, Cindy and me

So... Here she sits, pretty much done.