Come along on Shellshock's Midwest adventures! (Resuming now!)

Anyone going to Rocky Mountain overland rally?

https://rockymountainoverlandrally.com/

 

i would be interested in that, ... have a salvaged rear slider window to deliver in Denver
August 1-4?

 

We should get a convoy to roll from Omaha

 

did you know that NE has but 1 interstate highway that rolls border to border
I think every other state has at least 2 routes
is this correct or do you know of another state with just one lonely route to go across the whole piece of land

 

You are really pumping me up to drive through Nebraska this coming week with your fun facts.

 

are you going near Scottsbluff to check out the scenery?

 

If I could not go near Nebraska at all I’d be content. Lol

Unless @Shellshock wants to play in the mountains less and actually stop in Nebraska for something other than gas I think we’ll miss it.

 

it is bad, isn't it! I rather drive on i90 thru SD to the PNW
I have been around the Scottsbluff area to south of Rapid City a long time ago
lots of forests and weird rock formations i recall as you are getting closer to the rockies from the 'farmlands'

 

Translation:
"Nebraska sucks until you can see Colorado"

 

actually that far north into NE is Wyoming border, which is not the same as Colorado most definitely
my nephew was on a field trip to the Tetons and said he saw the mountains!
i told him, NO you have not seen the real mountains lol


what is that midwest joke

Nebraska sucks but Iowa blows
is that how it goes?

 

why's it always so windy in south dakota? Nebraska sucks and North Dakota blows

 

thank you! i was having a Nebraska brain fart!

 

sooooo you're saying if i get my suspension parts you guys wanna help me install it?

 

iowa has wind as its own year round season

 

Sure can! @Cav_BluTRD is pretty good at doing the work and I’m pretty good at reading directions and finding lost tools lol

I’m hoping to have access to a lift around here before much longer. I should know in the coming weeks. Otherwise a road trip down to see @Cav_BluTRD always works too

 

i am always down to meet up and travel. Back in Phoenix i would drive all over to do install days. Suspension is an area that Im good at knowing what to do but not actually doing it. I have only installed coils twice and both were on cars. Never messed with truck suspensions before. So I'm down to travel and meet peeps too. and I always bring da beer

 

must be the reason for the GOBS of windmill farms i see off i80 from here to Des Moines
its cool to see at night driving back with all the blinky red lights in the distance

although my suspension seems to be 0k from going over that nasty stretch of i29 in Iowa just north of Council bluffs to Crescent... have you been over that stretch recently?
these parts i have are all original and are probably gonna need changed one of these days, when do these Toyota parts ever wear out
i have not yet priced a bunch of new parts stuff to get it looking good as new under there... just doing one piece at at time

 

hmmm... I see you are hitting Lake Tahoe area
there is a TW guy out there that parts out old Tacos that were totalled and strips them down
i do not 'need' anything he currently has in inventory so no 'favors' to ask
do you or have you participated in the TW express

 

I haven’t traveled near bluffs in quite sometime. I typically only head south towards KC (family) or north towards Minneapolis. Other then that I’ve been a hermit crab.

But sounds like we need to get a weekend meet up going for suspension/parts install going

@Shellshock @Cav_BluTRD what do y’all think?