Anza Borrego Off Road - Driving through Split Mountain in Anza Borrego [More]

MuMu the FJ40 Land Cruiser conquers the Squeeze in Anza Borrego Pulled this one out of the archives.  Fast forward 17 years later, we still own "MuMu" the Land Cruiser but unfortunately she has been retired to the garage with the occasional trip to the grocery store. :)

I was excited to see that this license plate was available on the DMV's website. Not really sure of a better way you could spell out Anza Borrego with 7 letters? This is what I came up with and I think it works pretty good. 

Mary and I decided to take a quick overnight trip out to Anza Borrego. I was excited to go because we were finally going to get to 4-wheel the BJ70 which we bought a few months ago. The drive out from San Diego was non-eventful. The BJ70 who we are now calling "Opie", does great on flat stretches of freeway but when you hit hills patience and downshifting become your mantra. Once we arrived in the lazy, desert town of Ocotillo (I mean lazy in a good way) we decided to stop in for a beer at "The Lazy Lizard". After years of driving by this place it was fun to sit down in the one room bar with some of the Ocotillo locals.   After ... [More]