Iowa Tacomas (Idiots.Out.Wandering.Around)

Anyone know if any ‘novice’ level trails near the QCA? Within a couple hours drive?

 

@Shellshock
you are up to bat!

 

that is a sharp taco!
my older-than-dirt geezer truck is so small

 

Looks bigger than it is in pictures, however, it is also a larger truck than the ‘97 for sure.

Parked next to my GX470 for reference.

 

are you getting the black plates?

 

Yes. However, I couldn’t order them from the dealer as they have requested the dealers back off on allowing them for now because of the demand. So I have to wait to get my regular plates and go request black plates from the local DOT.

 

nice, i saw a truck on my side of the Missouri river the other day with the black plates, i had to give it another look!

 

head north to potosi and do the trans Wisconsin trail north to Lansing. That’s the best section of the trail and can be done is 3ish hours

Depending on weather, I’ll be making some trips down to Missouri. There’s some good stuff down there

 

Thanks! Missouri sounds fun. Where are you located? Sounds like we need to have a meetup and go wheeling at some point.

 

@Shellshock created the mid west adventure thread, check it out!

 

Will do.

 

I’m about 15 minutes east of waterloo Where are you?

I post everything here if anyone ever wants to tag along or meet up
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/come-along-on-shellshocks-midwest-adventures.606127/

 

hope nobody was out wandering around on that pile up on east 80 yesterday
it looked bad on the news

 

Embedded video from WHO News in Des Moines. Doesn't show too much, but has a still shot and a little information.
https://whotv.com/2019/12/09/1-seriously-injured-in-30-vehicle-crash-on-i-80-near-altoona/

 

RIP Hayden Fry

 

Now that it's all clean and coated, I can't wait to get it all dirty. Looking at Victory 4x4 stuff. Any of you guys run their bumpers, skid's or anything? I am thinking about picking up their full set of skids and the Blitz "hidden" winch bumper. Since they are in Michigan I was thinking about just saving up, buying it all at once and then making the road trip up there to pick it all up to save my self some shipping and make a little adventure out of it.

 

I've looked at some of their stuff but dont currently own any of it. I do recommend making the trip and an adventure. That's what I did with my tundra, went out to Prescott and Denver to get stuff installed.

 

@Shellshock i have been taking off my fender liners to rustproof behind and found some various bad spots i need fixed before they get worse!
you seem to have the mid west connections, do you know any on TW that has minor bodywork experience that you would trust to fix your truck that can help me out

 

@Cav_BluTRD has all the connections!

 

@Shellshock you had posted the ideal part of Twat to do and for some reason I can’t find the post. The 3 hour section starting in Polosi? Can you point me or the post or the link to that map? Trying to start doing some recon to make the run in the spring.