Hobbies

I do a lot:
-Hanging with family, cooking most meals, playing with 4 year old and 12 year old
-Mountain Biking
-DIY anything: home improvements, car repairs, yard landscaping work, gardening, etc
-the coolest thing i've discovered as a hobby as of recently, is the Gambler 500, look it up.

In short the Gambler 500 is the most -LOW COST- fun you can possibly have with a motor vehicle. We go off-road driving in vehicles folks would have otherwise sent to a junkyard... and pick up trash along the way. The "Gambler" events typically take place over a weekend, with a Saturday night primitive camp, and consist of a pre-determined route-ish (set of gps waypoints, you find you own way to each waypoint) along a 200-500+ mile route, where the only rule is "Don't be a D!ck", and pavement is lava. This weekend, we just completed one here in AZ. We had 35 vehicles participate, and at the end of the trip, we had picked up at least 5 tons of trash from the desert and at a final location where folks left a bunch of shooting debris.
Here's my terrible instagram account trying to document our madness. https://www.instagram.com/thunderturdaz/ also, here's a link to the 'OG" Original Gambler website https://www.gambler500.com/ the local 'chapters' are typically hosted as facebook groups.

ya wanna buy a 4WD Jeep cheap? It leaks a bit, and has a bit of screwy wiring on it, but everything except the AC works.

It's a bast ard model. 1996 & 1/2 where they didn't make a mid-year model change. Has part of 1996 and part of 1997 because they ran out of 1996 stuff and just stuck in stuff for the new model. Funky wiring.... head lights turned on by themselves, wouldn't turn off, so I ran a wire from the fuse box inside, out the passenger door, into the hood, and up to the lights, cut the lights off from the 'real' switch and attached them to the wire from the fuse box (attached to one of the 'on when key on' fuses. Yeah, bast ard, but works.

the 4WD is all manual engagement, none of that electrical garbage.

(like this)

https://daveysjeeps.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/XJ96RED-005.jpg

ya wanna buy a 4WD Jeep cheap? It leaks a bit, and has a bit of screwy wiring on it, but everything except the AC works.

It's a bast ard model. 1996 & 1/2 where they didn't make a mid-year model change. Has part of 1996 and part of 1997 because they ran out of 1996 stuff and just stuck in stuff for the new model. Funky wiring.... head lights turned on by themselves, wouldn't turn off, so I ran a wire from the fuse box inside, out the passenger door, into the hood, and up to the lights, cut the lights off from the 'real' switch and attached them to the wire from the fuse box (attached to one of the 'on when key on' fuses. Yeah, bast ard, but works.

the 4WD is all manual engagement, none of that electrical garbage.

(like this)

https://daveysjeeps.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/XJ96RED-005.jpg