Introducing BlueGerbil

[BlueGerbil]

Hi guys,
just wanna say hello! I´m Jan, I´m from Germany and from there we´re making some travels through Europe. The main travel- and offroad-rig is a Jeep Cherokee, that´s why I post it here in the Jeep board. We´ve got two other Cherokees, too - but they are "only" daily drivers for my wife and me and has been both converted to run on LPG which is half the price of regular fuel over her.

The "BlueGerbil" is a ´90 Jeep Cherokee which isn´t stock any more. I´ve just bought my 3rd roof tent (sold the 1st and 2nd), so we´ll be ready to travel again in some days.

Other modifications to the vehicle include: 7.5" lift, 35" MT tires, two lockers, upgraded axles, HID lightning, skidplates and bumpers all around, winch and some other stuff. Since we´re into geocaching and the degree confluence project a Garmin GPSMAP 278 is taking care of all navigation duties.

One of my favourite wheeling place are the french alps with it´s old milliatry gravel roads. But we´ve also been to the north cape, though Finland, Hungary, the Czech replubic, Italy and some other places.

http://www.liska.de/bilder/bg057.jpg
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[RoundOut]

Way cool rig! Welcome to the ExPo.

[blue94yj]

Nice looking jeep.

[hattrik21]

Very nice looking rig you have there.

[sidewys xj]

Nice XJ welcome

[Ryanmb21]

Great ride! Let see some pics of Europe........it's a loooooooong way from California
:lurk:

[BajaTaco]

Welcome to Expedition Portal!

What an awesome Cherokee :cool: Tell us about the decal on the door :lurk:

What kind of roof tent did you get?

The confluence project is very fun! One of our members and resident adventure guys here is Uwe (WhiteThaiGer) who is the regional coordinator for Asia at confluence.org. I attempted some confluences in Thailand with him, and we made it to one of them (http://www.confluence.org/confluence.php?visitid=9991)

[mountainpete]

Welcome to ExPo :)

[flyingwil]

Welcome to Expedition Portal!

What an awesome Cherokee :cool: Tell us about the decal on the door :lurk:

:wavey: Greetings and welcome! I want to know about the sicker too!

Sweeeet Jeep!

[BigAl]

I like your roof rack, custom?

[Haggis]

Hello and Welcome. I'd swear that picture was taken here in NW Pennsylvania, looks like home. And that's one nice rig!

[OverlandZJ]

Glad you found your way over here Jan! Welcome to EXPO.

:camping:

[BlueGerbil]

Thanks for the warm welcome!

The decal on the door is from "Camp Jeep", which was held in 2005 in southern france - was a great and fun trip!

The roof rack is made by Hannibal, a southafrica based company, which sells in the US too: www.hannibalusa.com - it´s made of aluminium, so it´s quite light.

The used roof tent I just bought is made by Beduin Tents:

http://www.liska.de/bilder/blog/beduin1.jpg

[BajaTaco]

Thanks for the reply. I believe that is the first tent of that kind that we have seen here on the Portal. Let us know how you like it.

[jerdog53]

Very Cool XJ thanks for sharing! :clapsmile

[tdesanto]

Servus von den USA. Schöner Überländer.

Ausgezeichnet :clapsmile

[cipioxx]

That is one nice Cherokee... I love the roof tent.

[Willman]

Welcome to the ExPo!!!

Nice rig!!!

:)

[sidewys xj]

Very nice jeep

[IXNAYXJ]

Total Geil.

-----Matt-----

[BlueGerbil]

Life is a journey - and everything is changing...

I´m going to sell the roof tent at the end of the month - I was lucky enough to find someone, who is selling his TenTrax adventure trailer - I think there isn´t another one in europe - and the price was OK, so I HAD to buy it!

It´s on 35" tires, which perfectly matches my XJ - so I´ve only to install a hitch and paint the still white trailer blue to match the XJ...

http://www.liska.de/bilder/tentrax_01.jpg
http://www.liska.de/bilder/tentrax_02.jpg
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From the manufacturers site (www.tentrax.com):

http://www.liska.de/bilder/tentrax_04.jpg

[The Swiss]

Hi guys,
One of my favourite wheeling place are the french alps with it´s old milliatry gravel roads. But we´ve also been to the north cape, though Finland, Hungary, the Czech replubic, Italy and some other places.

Willkommen bei ExPo, Jan! Yup, the old Military roads in the French Alps are quite nice. I also enjoyed the off-road arena in Val d'Isaire. Have you been in the Pyrenees mountains? Some nice corners there too, working your way from the Mediterranean direction North. Congrats on the Tentrax; I believe it is pretty unique in Gernamy.

Scott,

The Beduin roof tent is pretty common in Europe and a pretty exact copy of the original overland.

[BlueGerbil]

Been in the Val d´Isere wheeling area back in 2001 - what a great place! I´ll be driving through the Isere valley in August 2007, while going to Briancon for 4 days of wheeling.

The Pyrenees are on my "wish list", two friends of mine are going there every year, I´ve seen some nice pictures.