Archive for March, 2009

When you buy a Jeep you join a special group of people known as Jeepers; with this purchase comes a responsibility to acknowledge and wave to other Jeepers. Failure to wave takes away your Jeeper status and demotes you to the status of a wannabe.

I was convinced the Jeep wave was dead until riding in ours with my husband driving. He gets waves, I don’t and I find it frustrating. Why does he get waves and I don’t? Does the sun bouncing off his bald head make him easier to spot?

Its not the Jeep I drive, I drive a 2 door Rubicon so I drive a “real” Jeep and at first glance wouldn’t be perceived as a four door driving soccer mom. It’s not that my Jeep is hard to miss, its such a bright shade of red they can probably pick it out from the space station.

I don’t understand it but I really hope that the Jeep wave doesn’t die. I’ve always loved knowing there are other nuts out there like me that have a passion for their Jeeps.

As all owners of soft tops I always look forward to the first topless day of the year. Today it got up to 79, the sky was clear and it was a wonderful day to drop the top and just go for a drive. My little guy and I thoroughly enjoyed our day today. We ran some errands then had a picnic lunch in the park. Tomorrow the weather is meant to be the same as today…perfect!

First topless day of the year! Ethan is in the back out of the sun under the Spider Web Shade Top

Here’s something for all you Jeep lovers with yound children; this is reposted from my daughters blog Internet Toddler. We read Sheep in a Jeep a few a day because its my daughter’s favorite book. When we finish reading it she always says “one more time, one more time Mommy”. We have read the book so many times that she can “read” it. She laughs a lot at it and loves to tell me whats happening in the pictures. I love the book for its simplicity, it is a great book to read to little ones and it’ll be a great book for her to learn to read.

My daughter and I love doing craft time together so we come up with crafts for most of the books we read. I do all the cutting and she does all the pasting. Here is our efforts for Sheep on a Jepp on a hill that’s steep.

I have been researching what we need to do to get the Jeep ready and how to tow it behind the RV. I was not expecting the horror stories I have come across! I’ve been reading about burnt out gearboxes, shredded tires and dead batteries just to name a few. I could care less about the battery, cheap and easy to fix or replace but the other issues are huge and costly mistakes.

We have decided that we’re going to make a checklist that we both have to check before we get ready to roll. This way the blame can not lie with just one of us as we both will have checked off the checklist and will share the blame. We are also considering just getting a trailer and saving the tires on the Jeep. We still have a couple of months to make up our minds. Does anyone have any experience or expertise they can share with us on this? This just gives me yet another thing to obsess over in the coming months.