Badass Brunette Tacoma - Build & Adventures

Man, I have some serious catching up to do with my summer adventures. Be prepared for photo onslaught!!

 

Sooo i may have missed it but is the truck named after the blue bastard in Guardians of the Galaxy that can't dance?

 

HEY! You're the first person to figure that out!



It was that blue and black theme. Plus the attributes of a villain, has an attitude, kind of a diva, draws a lot of attention to himself and has zero dancing skills. Just need some purple rock lights

 

For the love of all that is sacred DO NOT put colored disco lights under that truck!

 

I have zero intentions of it. Its no mall crawler.

 

Canada Overlanding Trip - August 2017

Expedition recap:
- 11 days
- 3,187 miles
- somewhere around 230 gallons of fuel
- 3 audio books (1 being 11 hrs X2)
- 1 winch-worthy scenario

National Parks:
- Glacier
- Banff
- Jasper
- Yoho
- Kootenay
- Yellowstone
- Grand Tetons

Lakes:
- Flathead Lake
- Waterton
- Lake Louise
- Moraine
- Emerald
- couple others

*Solar eclipse viewing in Duboise, Wyoming.

Highlights:
- Bathing in glacier water lakes and rivers
- Building a cairn at the base of a glacier
- jumping/floating a rapid in Yellowstone
- the 2 campfires we had the entire trip (fire ban)
- fresh flathead lake cherries
- a freaking eclipse
- canoing across Emerald Lake
- Takakkaw falls
- no broken truck parts
- no visits from bears in the night

I took an excessive amount of photos but for the sake of the forum I'll only post a few. This was the very first trip with my drone so I was able to snag some unique photos and some awesome footage.

The Before and After the trip..


Five vehicles for the expedition - 1 Tundra, 3 Tacomas, 1 4runner (@miles.less.traveled )


Camp the day before entering Glacier National Park.


"Going to the sun road", Glacier National Park . We were travelling in the middle of all the forest fires which was the only real bummer of the trip.


Waterton Lakes National Park - Canada


Camping lakeside outside of Banff.


Columbia Glacier Ice Fields.


Welcome to the backcountry of the Canadian Territories. Vast and wild!


But don't forget to snag a self portrait.



Camping back on that same lake as earlier.


Sunrise over Emerald Lake, Canada.


Final campsite on top of a mountain in Dubois Wyoming to watch the solar eclipse. We were in the 99.9% coverage. Absolutely incredible!!

 

Alright I need to setup a trip to visit Waterton Lakes National Park...

 

It's a gorgeous area. That building is the Prince of Wales hotel that overlooks the lake and the town of Waterton.

 

Dang nice build, photos all of it, very jelly lol

 

It's a good name! Great build too

 

Perks of having weekends off and no kids haha

 

Yeah I don't know what either of those are like ha ha. Your photos really push me to move to Utah. Been through before and loved it.

 

It's an awesome place. I keep thinking about leaving to experience other states/regions but every season of the year I find reasons to stay haha. There's a good Toyota community out here as well.

 

Your Canada trip pictures are stunning. Gorgeous country. That area has been on my list for going on 5 years now... eventually. How do you like your cooper tires? I'm burning out my duratrac's quickly and looking at these as an option.

 

After returning home from the Canada trip, with the mud still in place, Ronan had his very first professional photo shoot.





The war paint of an adventure well had.

 

Colorado - Ouray and Telluride
July 13-22, 2017
This was probably my favorite trip this summer because I seriously fell in the love this region. We had arrived the day after Black Bear Pass opened and the weekend before the FJ summit. We did Black Bear Pass, Imogene Pass, Alpine Loop Trail, and a few others. I ran into Rock Creek Overland on Imogene Pass and saw dozens of awesome rigs every which-way. Next year I think I'll be there for the actually Summit event if anyone wants to meet up!
Sorry in advance for the photo bomb unleashed in 3... 2.. 1..





Summit 'Bro' photo.







Coming down into Telluride.



Beginning of the famous switchbacks on Black Bear Pass.



Camping at a mine site on the Telluride side of Imogene Pass


Up, up, up Imogene Pass trail.



Imogene Pass Summit with the crew.



On our way up to Clear Lake.

 

Awesome build and sweet adventures! Sub'd

 

Spectacular! Any updates?

 

A day late but here were my Halloween posts!



"Reading posts from Robin like..."

 

Ronan's birthday was on Saturday - November 4th. Three incredible years down and many more to go!