Thanksgiving in the Desert UPDATED

[78 Arizona Chief]

Mike,
need a 35cc discharge nozzle, the bowl blue gaskets, and a 6.5 power valve. So are you now thinking of grabbing the jeep? Call or text me tonight to let me know if you are or are not bringing it, if not, I won't pack my carb stuff. If ya are, I'll bring it all so we can get her dialed in once it cools. I remember how mine use to bog on throttle tip-in and it drove me nuts.
Kevin

[will e]

Looks like they are not going to get it done. Oh well. I should know better.

I will be heading out with Derek, we will get there probably a bit before noon.

[motcat]

Sorry for the late notice, hopefully it's not too late to commit. Just got done fixing the last thing (for this trip). Unless something else breaks on the way to Florence it looks like the wife and I can make it. We'll bring a cheesy potato dish for the dinner and a veggie tray for snacking.

:JR

[jsinajeep]

Sound good motcat. Come on down

[rstep]

JR , no worries. Cherokee Jim made it in this morning from Texas, Stephen is in route from New Mexico.
The Cherokee is loaded ,Turkey and ham are ready for some burning.
Mike 730-8 am we should be there for Breakfest.

[will e]

good deal bob. I won't make breakfast with you guys but will see you around noon. it's going to be awesome outside!

[78 Arizona Chief]

JR is gonna caravan down with me. I got a crap ton of parts, tools and such, we will get him there!

Mike, bummer bout the jeep.

Bob, thanks for covering all the meat. You want any dinero pitched in?
Kevin

[Locked and Loaded]

I'm heading out. See you all at Mickey Ds.

[Locked and Loaded]

The J10 got me home from another adventure.

[jsinajeep]

We had a good there. We had friends from AZ, NM, TX. Great time and good food at our TitD of 2015.

[will e]

I am home. HeaRd from Kevin that they reached pavement.

[motcat]

Good food, good time, great people. It was nice meeting ya'll. Wife and I had a lot of fun. Thanks for the warm welcome.

:JR

[78 Arizona Chief]

We are back at the homestead. Great time. Food was awesome, great seeing old friends, and great makin new ones. Kick rear time!
Kevin, Kristen, Cayden, Ryan, Chief and TJ.

[will e]

Okay I am back on the computer! I had an great time. WOW, the weather was perfect. The food was so awesome. I am still full!
It's always good to see old friends (and old jeeps) and hang out with some new friends (some of whom travelled many miles).

The surprise visit by Tom, Frank (and Gus) was special.

We missed F&K and H too. We will hopefully see you next year.

Spending time with old and new friends and having a glorious pot luck followed by a nice campfire under the stars is a great way to kick off the holiday season.

[78 Arizona Chief]

OK,
so for those of us FB challenged, did anyone get some nice group photos?
Kevin

[Tad]

Unfortunately I did not take one single picture.

Oops, that's wrong.
I took three pictures.
One of dinky, one of Stephen's dog and one of the kids digging the fire pit.

[Curly]

Here is a few that I took:
Visiting Sat Afternoon


Lining up for dinner




Curly

[jsinajeep]

Thanks Curly

[srobertsfsj]

Wish I was there!!

[rstep]

We'll see if we can get some of the FB people to post their pic's if not I'll do it.
Wow what a great weekend . Weather was great for this and food was plenty a big thanks to all that came out.We did have to move the site by 200 yards some other folks already had our sweet spot in the desert.
The total for the day was 27 people ,30 lbs of meat and 3 tables of food ,and 8 rigs plus 1 we could count twice .It came with Jerry and left with Jim.
Big thank you to Kevin and Kristen for the great pancake breakfast.
I managed to not get any pictures.