dloc_jeep_KJ wrote:
hey now its not that i wouldnt like to make this ride or that i even care that much about the free stuff. it was a joke lighten up please(notice the smiles). why i dont think i can make it is money. i am a young college student with a new born baby so money is a little tight sorry i cant blow 100bucks or more in gas to come. i wish i could but i think its kind rude that u are saying im givving KJs a bad name when u dont know the reasons i cant make an 11hr drive. i really would if i could afford it trust me i would LOVE to come. heck if i have the money for the gas i will. sorry for any confusion. also next time u come up to Telico let me know i think i could seing the gas money for that.
no I think you got me wrong
I have been trying to get guys out for years
and NOT 1 KJ besides the locals has made a "special trip"
that is the reason for the free batt. to get guys who would not other wise show
Trust me when I tell you I am way deep in the off road world in my part of the world and the KJ is simply the laughing stock
not because it can not but because the owners do not
The locals have seen my wife drive hers on these trails they know it can
but they also know that I invite ya'll to almost EVERY ride and ya'll never show
I tell them the excuses and they also laugh at them
most of them are collage students ,I have a 7 month old baby and I am one of the guys who puts on the Expo and manage to find the money and time
I guess ,like I tell them, it all comes down to dedication and there is just not as much dedication among KJ people as there is among the rest of the Off Road world
sure some are very dedicated but most are scared to leave their "comfort zone"
but that is the reason for the Expo ,to get the "new blood" out on the trails that will push a stock rig to it's limit if they want or they can watch others
I am just a guy who says if you have a 4wd Jeep and an invite to an event like this why not go?
I do it all the time Gilmer, Hot springs ,Morris Mt, Gray Rock, Telico, if some one invites me to an event and I am not working I go
now Telico is a push and maybe a once a year but heck all of the "long drive" parks are once a year
now close to home ~4 hours once a month if I can
I just think every Jeep owner should be the same