Contact Jesse
- E-MAIL: bmihpm@gmail.com
- Phone # (480) 694 8114
What is Overlanding
- While expedition is defined as a journey with a purpose, overlanding sees the journey as the purpose.
- It's all about the adventure -- Exploration, Education and Conservation!
- Overlanding is self-reliant overland travel to remote destinations where the journey is the principal goal. Typically, but not exclusively, accommodated by mechanized off-road capable transport (from bicycles to trucks) where the principal form of lodging is camping; often lasting for extended lengths of time (months to years) and spanning international boundaries.
TRAIL TOOLS & EQUIPENT FOR SALE
- Universal Battery box = heavy duty mount any where--$65
- Universal spout = heavy duty Jerry can spout--$pending
- Farmer Wok = Campfire plowdisc WOK--$100.00
I learned this weekend that projects are finished in there own due time. In my family projects are all the rage we even have one night a week dedicated to our recreational projects. Of course we have the never ending home improvement projects, the type that if given time seem to disappear as new more exciting ones show there faces. Well at my house just inside my house there are plenty of projects and if you have been here you know what I'm talking about. but for this essay I will only bring up the major more evident and not to mention the highly perused and anticipated ones.
- The back splash around the kitchen counters
- The south fence in the back yard along second ave.
- The other bathroom( yes we do have two bathrooms)
A few weeks or more ago we started noticing the smell of wet earth in our house. We figured it to be from the wet weather (which still could have and probably did contribute). We have smelt this before when our neighbor hood decides they don't want to wake up at 3 in the morning to change head gates for irrigation and the water would run under our house. This problem was fixed at 2 in the morning one warm Saturday night just after we were married by shoveling dirt and piling it up around the crawl space entrance. So knowing that this could not happen again we delt with the smell. Then one day after work the sink in the kitchen would not drain. So I went to work. I ended up shoving my garden hose down the clean out and that fixed the problem, so we thought. It started to smell real bad under the house. So I peeked , and my worst fears were realized.
I guess broken sewer pipes are common in old houses. It was wet under our house. I decided to wait for it to dry before initiating any repairs. So we set up a sink in our shower and started using plastic ware and paper plates.
The pipes were fixed under the house, even the main line to the city sewer was replaced. To fix the pipes in the kitchen we had to chisel into the wall where the back splash would have gone. The drain for the other bath room was tapped into for the kitchen sink and the drain from the other bathrooms tub was found to be in bad shape and in need of replacement. Now for the fence. The main sewer line goes right under a dead pecan tree along the named fence line. We sent a camera down my sewer to check out what we could not replace under the tree. the roots of the tree have caused the pipe to offset which will require attention later, requiring us to remove the dead tree which if the fence was up would make this future job difficult.
This event has justified the methods to my madness. So next time you see me know this, I am smiling because all my procrastination and distractions have paid off and I am a free man (in spirit) and life will keep humming along at the pace I enjoy so much. Now if we could just pay all our bills off then we would truly be free.
Jesse Baker
60 CJ5 project list
- --air tank
- --york style air compressor
- -- early 70's open knuckle front diff.
- --tube front fenders
- --bigger easily removed belly pan
- --spool
- --reconfigure winch drivshaft
- --anti sway system
- --tera 3.15:1 low range
- --jamboree rack
- --stock rims with old style skinny 7.50 mud tires
- --roof rack
- --new wiring
- --hard full length canopy top with canvas sides
- --full rollcage, mandrel bent and clean looking
Trail-Servis project list
- --swivle pintle hitch
- --independant suspension
- --roof top tent
- --over head rack
- --camping essentials that slide out from trailer to avoid the "setting" up hassle
- --air suspension
- --new frame
Mesa is my place of residence becuase:
- Heratige.
- It is our home base.
- It is not in the country.
- I was born here.
- Mesa-nites can rest easy knowing they don't have to mow their lawns.