A lot of you fellows keep your Jeep as a hobby, kind of a big boy's toy, and y'all take it out on weekends to find rough trails to run for kicks. That's cool, and I hope you all enjoy it.
For me, my Jeep is more of a tool that I use to get to where I need to go, where my work takes me. I'm in the mountains of Southern Sonora, about ten hours in from the border. It's beautiful country. There are a couple of villages up in the big mountains where I have had invitations to visit for ages but my 2wd pickup just would not do. I have a 200cc enduro bike and have taken that up a time or two, and could make the trip by mule, but I wanted to be able to go on four wheels for various reasons (bringing my wife one of those as she won't get on the back of a motorcycle or a mule). Motorcycles and mules are fun but they have their limitations, and at 61 years of age, I'd rather not be running those trails on a bike by myself. The destinations are about 20 to 25 mile from home and it can take two to three hours to get there with the Jeep. I could do it in twice that time by mule, about six hours they tell me. The motorcycle is not much faster due to the rough road conditions.
One of the families that I visit are grandparents of an 11 year old boy who was dying from a severe heart defect and my wife and I were able, by God's grace and goodness, to get him connected with the medical attention and eventual surgery that saved his life. Pawpaw is most grateful and has actually gifted me a plot of land to build a little adobe house on.
So this was my impetus for getting a Jeep. I am grateful for the help I've had from this forum along the way and for the help I know I'll receive in the future. I need to keep La Negrita in good shape as she'll be my lifeline for this work I'm doing. She's nothing real special; mostly just stock save the 3" lift and the 31" tires, but she gets me where I want to go.
I thought I share a few photos of a recent trip up into the hills. It's beautiful country. We are just coming out of a multi-year drought, so the countryside is GREEN GREEN GREEN like it has not been for quite a while. La Negrita appears in almost all of the photos (this being a Jeep forum and all), but the countryside is the real star of the show.
Here ya go...
For me, my Jeep is more of a tool that I use to get to where I need to go, where my work takes me. I'm in the mountains of Southern Sonora, about ten hours in from the border. It's beautiful country. There are a couple of villages up in the big mountains where I have had invitations to visit for ages but my 2wd pickup just would not do. I have a 200cc enduro bike and have taken that up a time or two, and could make the trip by mule, but I wanted to be able to go on four wheels for various reasons (bringing my wife one of those as she won't get on the back of a motorcycle or a mule). Motorcycles and mules are fun but they have their limitations, and at 61 years of age, I'd rather not be running those trails on a bike by myself. The destinations are about 20 to 25 mile from home and it can take two to three hours to get there with the Jeep. I could do it in twice that time by mule, about six hours they tell me. The motorcycle is not much faster due to the rough road conditions.
One of the families that I visit are grandparents of an 11 year old boy who was dying from a severe heart defect and my wife and I were able, by God's grace and goodness, to get him connected with the medical attention and eventual surgery that saved his life. Pawpaw is most grateful and has actually gifted me a plot of land to build a little adobe house on.
So this was my impetus for getting a Jeep. I am grateful for the help I've had from this forum along the way and for the help I know I'll receive in the future. I need to keep La Negrita in good shape as she'll be my lifeline for this work I'm doing. She's nothing real special; mostly just stock save the 3" lift and the 31" tires, but she gets me where I want to go.
I thought I share a few photos of a recent trip up into the hills. It's beautiful country. We are just coming out of a multi-year drought, so the countryside is GREEN GREEN GREEN like it has not been for quite a while. La Negrita appears in almost all of the photos (this being a Jeep forum and all), but the countryside is the real star of the show.
Here ya go...
