We took the White Beast up to Flagstaff yesterday to attend the Overland West Expo at Coc0nino county faigrounds (aka Fort Tuthill Park)..... huge show for
extreme overland expedititon global trek camping a venue with 700 + vendors selling anything you could possibly need for year around outdoor camping living in your 1.5 million dollar global trek earth roamer rig...
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so much stuff to see no wonder it is a 3 day event ...were there for few hours intead of all day ......thanks to the piss poor plannners for parking the mass exodous of inbound vehicles....(zoom in Fifth pic) you got to be Shetting me..!!! doesnt even begin to tell the story of 1.5 hours in line to get parked!!! ...line stretches another 1.5 miles around the bend to turn off then another mile up and around dirt road to back way into parking area for fairgrounds.... got to Flag around 10am ...was then sent down road to get in line for day pass ......got to end of line flipped a bitch then pulled up at 10:05am....for the next 90 mins was spent inching 2.5 miles to park truck .....we got the truck parked and were offically out of the truck at 11:35 am ...then came the 15 min hike from truck to the gate ......then get in line at ticket booth ..with the other 50 people .....15 mins later ...at 12:05pm were offically inside the gate and ready to start exploration....2 Frucking hours for 2.5 miles...!! few peole said fruck it and turned around and drove out of there.
I tell ya ,...there were alot of Really Pissed off folks for the time it took to get in to park..!! everybody in ticket line was raising Hell....yes including us..!!
i dont know if we are going back next year....in fact i know we are not ..at least not me......Why..??..cause i Damn sure plan to be in Moab this time Next year.!!..Thats why..!!
Alright stay tuned more to come ......
Larry