Author: Scrib
Hi I'm Roy, welcome to The Jeep Bug.
I travel around the western United States and Canada in my customized Jeep camper, looking for interesting places to share with others.
AC Power for Long Range Travel
For quite a few years I have been powering my ARB refrigerator with a small Goal Zero battery, charged from either the Jeep engine or a solar panel. It does not take much to power an ARB refrigerator, so the Goal Zero did just fine and actually had plenty of room to spare. Now that […]
The Utah Backcountry Discovery Route
After traversing Arizona in the spring, the group was excited to get back on the trail for our fall run, this time crossing the state of Utah. If you are into Jeeps then you know that Moab is a trip in itself, so we also planned to spend two or three days there on Jeep […]
Back to Idaho
I had two events occurring almost simultaneously at the end of August; a family reunion in Kennewick, Washington and a meetup with some friends in Bluff, Utah to run the Utah Backcountry Discovery Route (BDR). This left me with four days in between the end of the family reunion on the 27th and the meetup in […]
The Arizona Backcountry Discovery Route
The Arizona Backcountry Discovery Route (“AZBDR”) is a 750-mile-long mostly offroad route that winds its way across the state, from the Coronado National Monument on the U.S. – Mexico border in the south, to the Vermilion Cliffs National Monument on the Arizona – Utah border in the north. I joined up with five other Jeepers […]
Two Days in Southern Idaho
This month I had the opportunity to join College of Southern Idaho (CSI) Professor Shawn Willsey and a dozen other geology nerds, on a two-day field trip around some of the significant geological features in the Twin Falls area. If a field trip with a stuffy geology professor sounds like an odd way to spend […]