Archive for March, 2009

I was making my weekly browse across All Things Jeep to see what new products they have and noticed that they are selling Jeep posters. We’re Jeep nuts and love taking pictures of our Jeep when we’re out and about. Now I’m thinking that I’ll start making a point of photographing our Jeep and begging others to let me take pictures of theirs when we’re traveling. We have big off road plans and I know that we will have no shortage of amazing backdrops that will show off why owners obsess over their Jeeps the way they do. It’ll give me an excuse to get the new camera I’ve been wanting.

I am really looking forward to getting behind a camera again and having the opportunity to stop and take pictures instead of editing out the bug marks of pictures taken through the windshield. Our last vacation didn’t give us nearly enough time to stop and enjoy the scenery as much as I would have liked.

Here’s a pic I took at Monument Valley last September, what an amazing day.

The weather this weekend was amazing, blue skies and the temperatures in the 70′s. Its just my luck that the first topless days of the year we were away for the weekend. We can go away for the weekend in the Jeep but this was not one of those weekends. We went to Branson to do a little shopping and to Springfield for the “huge” RV show. We had a great time in Branson but thanks to us needing to take my sons pack and play and the big stroller there was no way the trip could be made in the Jeep. We spent the night at the Marriott Resort and all I can say is WOW, what an amazing place. We had a huge, new, modern one bedroom suite and paid less than what we normally would for a tiny hotel room. I love the off season rates!

The Springfield RV show was a huge disappointment and we left feeling ripped off that we paid $14 to get in. There were only a handful of vendors and only a couple of class A’s. It should have been called the fifth wheel RV show. It was interesting so see the size of some of those fifth wheels, I’ve lived in apartments that were smaller!

We went by an RV lot and it turned out to be the highlight of the weekend for us. We purchased our RV site unseen and the lot had one that was one year newer and a couple of feet longer. The bedroom was exactly the same as ours and we were able to get more of a feel for what ours will be like, we love it! We are very excited for May to get here so we can go and pick it up.

We had the Jeep serviced a few days ago for what we thought would be the last service under the factory warranty. It turns out that the dealership we bought the Wrangler from was wrong and the factory warranty doesn’t run out until February 2010. I got a better deal on the Jeep than I realized. I was getting ready to buy the extended warranty but now I get to hold off for awhile longer.

We did find out why we have always struggled with the top (in the rain heading to Vegas comes to mind); the header bar is bent. Its good to know that we haven’t lost our touch. the header is under warranty and the parts should be in this week so we can have it fixed. Just in time for spring!