very few vehicles can replace a Jeep

by bj2, Monday, April 15, 2013, 00:20 (4186 days ago) @ Andrew

I never really wanted to drive one in our freeway traffic here so I don't own one, but I've rented Wranglers in Utah and Colorado a number of times in order to do off-road stuff there. My wife owned a Grand Cherokee for a long time so we took it up there a lot too. My uncle was a journalist and wrote a car column in his local newspaper. He went to the original Grand Cherokee introduction at the King Ranch and afterwards he told me that if I ever drove a Grand Cherokee I would buy one. I liked my sports sedan so I stayed away from the Jeeps until my wife decided that she would like to drive one. We did a lot of off-road in hers and it seemed to go wherever we wanted to go as if by magic.

One of my few dreams is to go on the Easter Jeep Safari in Moab, UT, but I don't currently own a vehicle that is appropriate. And it takes a very modified Jeep to do most of those trails.

This is a Wrangler that my daughter and I rented in Silverton on our last trip up there:

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a370/bjd70/Colorado%202010/DSC_3687a.jpg

And a very steep and narrow road we were on very high up in the mountains:

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a370/bjd70/Colorado%202010/DSC_3725a.jpg

And this is our old Grand Cherokee at over 12,000 feet:

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a370/bjd70/Misc/DSC_3557b.jpg