Dented my tailgate. Decided to pound it out myself.

[Another JR]

I think it looks good and would live with it, but i also think if you remove the tailgate and install a nice slide-in camper, you will feel much better about it. 

[Chuck FB]

2 minutes ago, Another JR said:

I think it looks good and would live with it, but i also think if you remove the tailgate and install a nice slide-in camper, you will feel much better about it. 

 

I think I know what you've had on the brain the last while, counting down the days on the calendar 

[Another JR]

Yup. My last real work day is 12/18, and I’m officially retiring 12/31. We are hitting the road for a few weeks heading South to Joshua Tree, Death Valley, Mojave Desert, and other SW destinations in mid February. We hope it will be a good year for the bloom in Death Valley. 

[Chuck FB]

12 minutes ago, Another JR said:

Yup. My last real work day is 12/18, and I’m officially retiring 12/31. We are hitting the road for a few weeks heading South to Joshua Tree, Death Valley, Mojave Desert, and other SW destinations in mid February. We hope it will be a good year for the bloom in Death Valley. 

 

That sounds like an excellent trip and time of year I would think as well. It literally is death to be in death valley during the summer in July and the only time when I went through there and managed to survive it and was 118 that day with a stiff wind which I was told was right on average temp for that time of the year and they also said at the park office, good thing you were not here last week when it hit 129 !. I've heard if the desert has had good rains which some parts will get more commonly but death valley I gather is a special event when it does. That summer after I went through death valley I drove up highway 395 from the west side of DV park up to Lee Vining and then west on highway 120 over Tioga Pass into Yosemite NP, that is quite the fantastic National Park with the landscapes and the huge Sequoia trees ( I did manage to hike to the top of Half Dome somehow ). Did part of the number 1 coastal highway and just wow, also the coastal redwoods in the northern part of CA. The natural beauty in some of those area's of the states is unreal.

 

A friend of mine from the states has talked about really liking to go to the Saguaro National Park just west of Tucson to camp during the winter into the new year time frame and also has taken in the Arizona Sanora Desert Museum which is both a botanical garden and a zoo with various desert animals, I haven't seen any of that myself but if its something you might be interested in you can look into it, that is if you thought you might be going into that area. And there is Sedona and the Grand Canyon in the Flagstaff area and which I went through the one and only time I was in AZ for a bit years ago during the winter. 

 

Yes, you will get some good use out of your truck and camper this winter exploring down there !. 

[ManyCamaroz]

You did good. I had one that was smaller but was driving me crazy. Fortunately, I know a PDR man that fixed mine.