Carlsbad, NM to Terlingua, TX
Brake Light Status: On
Drive Time: 5 hours
Today’s drive: 282 Miles
Total Trip Miles: Forgot to take a photo.
First night we were able to charge the Jeep!
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Month: September 2021
Odds & Ends Part 1
During our travels so far, we’ve taken well over 2951 photos – so obviously you don’t get to see all of them because that would be a lot to post and your eyes would start glazing over. Many of them are sorted and will get posted with the appropriate blog for the day, as appropriate. As for the inappropriate photos… well, too bad.
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Day 4: Carlsbad Caverns
Carlsbad Caverns National Park
National Park #2
Time spent: 4 hours
Steps: 10,696
Today’s drive: negligible
Brake Light Status: off
Mpg: 20.2
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Day 3: White Sands National Park
Las Cruces, NM to Carlsbad, NM
Via White Sands National Park (National Park #1)
MPG: 20.2
Today’s Drive: 233 Miles
Total Miles: 1092.4
Drive time: 4 hours 12 minutes
Brake light status: Gremlins (off and on and off etc)
More GEEKY JEEP REPORT at bottom of post.
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Day 2: Tombstone, AZ
Scottsdale AZ to Las Cruces NM
Drive time: 6 hours
Distance: 400 miles
Total Miles: 882.5
MPG: 18.6
Brake light status: off
Do you know what’s between Scottsdale and Las Cruces? No? Neither did I! (Though Steve did!) As it turns out [Click to continue reading]
Bugs!
Day 2: Scottsdale AZ to Los Cruces NM
Drive time: 6 hours
Distance: 400 miles
Total Miles: 882.5
MPG: 18.6
Brake light status: off
Amount of Bug Splatter: Inconceivable
The War of the Words!
So Jessica and I decided to set up this website and blog page for our adventures. The website name is a story in itself; one day I will tell it. But when we decided to make the site about our adventures, we had to decide upon a template for it. Jessica was used to WordPress templates. I’m used to using html links and pages. Her choice would look more professional, mine would look more rudimentary. Hers would be more structured, mine would allow more flexibility. However, hers could be updated with relatively little effort, mine would require a bit of work (and require my laptop as opposed to a tablet or phone). [Click on heading to read more]
First leg of the trip!
Day 1: Glendale CA to Scottsdale AZ Miles: Approx 392 AVG MPG: 20.1 Drive time: 6 hours So, here we are! In case you’re wondering, […]
The Brake Light Issue
So far the Jeep 4xe we purchased earlier this year has been a delightful vehicle. We’ve been enjoying it much more than we thought we would. The electric part of the drivetrain is really sophisticated. Jeep obviously put a lot of thought into this. And when the hybrid system shuts down (as it will when the battery is low) the gas engine picks up. There’s no dropoff in performance. The gas driven drivetrain is exactly the same as in the standard Jeep Rubicon.
