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 Another
year has come and gone and so has another road trip. This year’s
schedule was for late summer and early fall to hit several Jeep
Jamborees around the country on a trip that would be routed from the
west coast through Canada and down the eastern part of the country.
One thing that is certain, North America has some fantastic sights
to see and so many different places and routes that a person or
family can plan a trip to see just about anything that they would
want to. The route and travels this year were over about a four
month time frame and covered close to 18,000 miles.
Whether you enjoy the mountains, the coasts with the various beaches
from one side of the country to the other or even if the large
metropolitan cities are your thing there are plenty of ways to get
to several of them on any road trip. This year our travels took us
through all of the above mentioned destinations from the beaches in
Monterey and San Francisco California, over the Rocky Mountains in
Colorado north into Canada and through cities like Louisville,
Cincinnati, Denver and many others that are vacation destinations in
themselves.
The beauty of the roads trips we get to take is that we not only get
to check out all of these cool places but in addition to that we get
to take in some of the country’s best wheeling. It is truly amazing
the beauty this country has but the fact that we are still able to
access much of it to get out and wheel and play in. With the
closures of more and more public land it so important to take
advantage of what we do still have available and show the powers
that be that there are more responsible off-roaders out there than
the small group of “sasquatch wheelers” that go out and purposely
tear things up in the name of fun.
There are so many places around the country that have mentionable
areas to wheel that normally wouldn’t come to mind. Naturally we
think about Moab, The Rubicon Trail, Ouray Colorado but it’s where
we don’t expect that has some outstanding spots to go wheeling. The
Cumberland Gap in Kentucky and Tennessee border, Hot Springs
Arkansas has the Superlift Off Road Park, Wyoming has the Big Horns
and the Tetons, The Black Hills in South Dakota as well as The Maine
Mountains are all great places with some fantastic wheeling.
The moral of the story is that you don’t have to set your sights on
a cruise or a vacation to another country to get memories that will
last a lifetime. There is so much to see around this country that I
strongly encourage people to get back to the basics for family time
and get out and see the country in a vehicle on a road trip… better
yet, go out and see it in a Jeep and I’ll hope to see you out
there!! |
