OlympiaFJ60

I recently installed a Safari Snorkel on my 1987 FJ60 Land Cruiser. The snorkel can be found and East Olympia Cruisers. If you are a TLCA member , be sure to mention it to get 10% off.

It was a straight forward installation easily following the supplied instructions.  This kit is designed in Australia and fits all 60 series Land Cruisers including the 2H and 12HT diesels as well as the 3FE powered FJ62.  Slight modification of the instructions is required for the 2F powered FJ 60.  I was fortunate to have installed an air clean assembly combined from an FJ62 and BJ60 for my EFI conversion.

The only tools required are a few standard sockets, a step drill (or a variety of drill bit sizes) and a 95mm hole saw or body saw  (a jigsaw would work as well).  What follows are the instructions included with the snorkel kit with metric to fractional conversions provided by me. (more…)

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After our two nights at Boni Spring we decided we would visit Silver City before heading north to find our last campsite of the trip. After a hearty breakfast of corned beef hash and eggs we broke camp. While David and I finished packing everything into the trailer and truck Mom took Farron for a walk down the road. I guess it took us a while to finish loading as we found Mom and Farron nearly a mile down the road, Farron was running ahead trying to extend his hike as far as he could. We continued west into the Jordan Valley.

Since we didn’t know how far it would be to Silver City and out again we decided to fuel up in Jordan Valley, Oregon. We also stopped to take a picture of the Pelota wall and the Old Basque Inn.
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Some time ago my brother David and I started talking about making a summer camp-as-you-go trip to Mountain Home, Idaho to see our 86 year old Grandmother. My wife, son and I flew down a few years ago but neither David nor I had driven down there since, as best as we can recall, 1979. While down there, we thought it would be nice to take a drive into the Owyhee Mountains and have a look at the sheep camp our mother and her family spent their summers at in the 40’s and 50’s. Her stepfather’s father, Papa Boni (Bonifacio Oyarzabal), came to Idaho in the early 1900s. As many other Basque emigrants did, Papa Boni found work in the hills grazing sheep. Well, one plan lead to another and the trip evolved into a 7 day trip with 2-3 nights in the mountains. We only hoped to find the cabins and snap a few pictures. (more…)

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Since we have started going to Yakima a few times a month for my wifes work, we have decided Chinook Pass is our favorite route. The road is slower but shorter than either Hwy 12 or Interstate 90. The actually are all about 3.5 hours from our house to Yakima. SR 410 is very scenic and we encounter much less traffic (generally).

From the DOT Flickr page (more…)

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Our son was at his grandparents today. My wife and I drove over to Yakima last night, she had to work and interview a prospective employee for the store here. Usually my son and I head for the hills or go to the parks and Museums around here when my wife has to work. He doesn’t like having to “just drive around”. Since he wasn’t with us this time I decided I would drive Hwy 24 from Yakima to the Columbia River, then up to Hwy 26 at Vantage and it made me thing about adding a Blue Highways segment to by blog. I think that would be a good excuse to go camping and take some nice scenic drives this summer.

So I guess this is the first installment of Blue Highways. I refer to Blue Highways as the secondary highways on the road map, or the State Routes and US Routes, as they are usually blue compared to the red of the Freeways and Interstates.

So back to it. I drove Washington State Route 24 from Yakima to the Columbia River, then up to Hwy 26 at Vantage. It passes through the rolling hills and farm land of East Yakima County to the Hanford Reach National Monument/Saddle Mountain Wildlife Refuge and the USDOE Hanford Nuclear Reservation. Here it junctions with SR 241 to Sunnyside to the south. (more…)