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The one and only Land Cruiser turns 60. Happy Birthday, Land Cruiser! We have certainly been glad to have used our various (four now) Cruisers in their various configurations, here is a quick retrospective of the various builds that we have driven: Our very first outing in Baja California, in our first Land Cruiser. Also [...]
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“Let’s run down to the beach for a few minutes”. Seems like such an innocuous phrase. An hour later, in mud up to my knees, hopelessly mired in who-knows-how-many feet of clay I found myself thinking, “Maybe we should have chosen a different route.” Mea Culpa. There, that’s out of the way. Nobody to blame [...]
Because I drive around on back roads very frequently, I forget how fun they are. Well, it isn’t so much that I enjoy them less, but more that I find them un-remarkable. Much like saying “Oh, I sure enjoyed jumping in the pool today” or, “There was a refreshing breeze blowing at the beach. In [...]
Last week I had some business to do in Jaco so we headed out of San Jose via Puriscal on a beautiful winding road that usually has great views. Somewhere along the way we took a left instead of a right, and decided to follow our noses (and the very-vague GPS) to figure out a [...]
We found out that there would be no power on Thursday, so we decided to go to Avellanas for the day. Just to make life interesting, we decided to take the “back road”, which is an easy (albeit bumpy) ride in the dry season. It took us a little over three hours to travel to [...]
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