Jeepster

It’s hard for me to imagine any one who gets bored stiff during long drives. Whether it’s in the trail or in the street, there sure are lots of things to see. But, I don’t agree with them dozing off in a cross-country drive and you probably don’t agree with me, so let’s leave it at that; it just shows you that the world is working the way it should be.

Off-road driving, trail-driving, any way you put it, it conjures up an image of the countryside. And, as people have a tendency to look for what’s lost where he is, my city chaps and I started on what is supposed to be a monthly trip aboard our trail-rated cars. Well, Jeep Wranglers mostly, and a couple of SUVs and pickups.

On our first trip, which unfortunately didn’t find its way on this web log, I got to see for the first time the whole capabilities of the Jeep Wrangler Rubicon. We pushed west toward Virginia. At our pit stop in the mountains, the Rubicon was caked with mud, and I could not keep off the backburner if the Rubicon’s lubrication and engine can deal with the road salt.

It did. It may not be for nothing that folk at Wrangler named the Rubicon thus. I felt how Caesar must have felt when he crossed the Rubicon and ruled Rome. For me and my Rubicon, that Virginia trip was our baptism of fire. It’s now just a matter of conditioning the vehicle, like what Caesar did to his army, and hopefully both I and the Rubicon can survive America’s trail.

But, unlike Caesar “crossing the Rubicon,” there’s time for me to turn back. There is, in another sense of that phrase. There’s time to turn back and write about our off-road drives here in this blog. Caesar is not the only great general the world has seen, but he’s renowned because of his historians. Great tasks will be for naught if no one will know about it.