The Cruiser

It has been a long process planning our adventure. This trip has been a dream of ours for about five years and we are getting anxious to begin our adventure.Our plan is to drive our 1966 Landcruiser pick-up to Costa Rica and back and we hope to take about 5 months doing it. Ozzie has been working very hard on the truck since March and it will soon be ready. We think about 2 more weeks and we will be off!
Our '66 Landcruiser pick up truck has been transformed from a jalopy old rig to a sparkling "new" cruiser. I can even drive it now that it has power steering and a manual stick shift. Our official name for the truck was Dopey and now that it is looking a lot newer, we now refer to it as Not So Dopey. It is a conglomerate of many Landcruisers, I think around 6, and many different years. (kind of like the Johnny Cash song.) We are now working on the camper part, which is homemade of course. It is a frame at this point and we hope to be finishing the outside of it by the end of the week. Then, we will have a week to outfit it with everything we need and then we are off.I have included some pictures of the restoration. It is really cool to look back at all of the hard work Ozzie has put into it so far. Enjoy! We will keep you updated and hopefully have a departure date soon.