Travel & Adventure

Dotting America's landscape are skeletons of old trucks and tractors—rusting hulks of metal garnished with weeds poking through the floorboards and around the axles of equipment that once helped build America.

Morning light illuminated the strange moonscapes of Death Valley as our snaking line of Jeep vehicles crested the Pantamint Range as we geared up for the 2014 Death Valley Jeep Jamboree.

I remember Friday, November 22, 1963, quite well. I had just finished my lunch and was preparing to return to school when the news rang out: President Kennedy had been shot in Dallas.

Camptown Racer: The idea was to borrow what worked best about the German people's car (and truck/van) and tailor it to better suit American people

The AEV Customer Appreciation Trail Ride adventure began at predawn-thirty at the meeting spot along the strip in Moab. While not super excited about the early hour, seeing the sun rise over the red-oxide mountains quickly put us in the right mindset.