jbick71
Member
Greetings to all!
New SMB owner here from the Palm Springs area. I first laid eyes on a SMB around 1995 on the outskirts of Sedona and have dreamed of having one ever since. At the time, I was touring around in a '80 VW Westfalia, and the idea of a rig that had the exact same level of well-designed creature comfort, but could also go WAY off the beaten path ...and not hold up traffic while climbing mountain passes was super intriguing. Fast forward about 25 years and I finally have one!
Picked it up in the Bay Area over the recent Xmas holiday and have been using the **** out of it since, camping (at least one night) every single weekend. 28 nights spent in it over the first two months, mostly within the vast expanses of wide open desert that lay within 2 hours of where I live.
This forum has been immensely helpful, both in research prior to the purchase and in the learning what the **** I have and what to do with it since (see my other post today about the broken sway bar disconnect rod). Owning one of these is most certainly a very consuming hobby/passion.
Anyway, just wanted to say hello and a general thank you to all the contributors... and share a few camp spot pics. I look forward to more interaction on here and to hopefully crossing paths with some of you one day.
-2005 RB 6.0 (not bulletproofed yet, but very well maintained), Sportsmobile 4X4 conversion-
New SMB owner here from the Palm Springs area. I first laid eyes on a SMB around 1995 on the outskirts of Sedona and have dreamed of having one ever since. At the time, I was touring around in a '80 VW Westfalia, and the idea of a rig that had the exact same level of well-designed creature comfort, but could also go WAY off the beaten path ...and not hold up traffic while climbing mountain passes was super intriguing. Fast forward about 25 years and I finally have one!
Picked it up in the Bay Area over the recent Xmas holiday and have been using the **** out of it since, camping (at least one night) every single weekend. 28 nights spent in it over the first two months, mostly within the vast expanses of wide open desert that lay within 2 hours of where I live.
This forum has been immensely helpful, both in research prior to the purchase and in the learning what the **** I have and what to do with it since (see my other post today about the broken sway bar disconnect rod). Owning one of these is most certainly a very consuming hobby/passion.
Anyway, just wanted to say hello and a general thank you to all the contributors... and share a few camp spot pics. I look forward to more interaction on here and to hopefully crossing paths with some of you one day.
-2005 RB 6.0 (not bulletproofed yet, but very well maintained), Sportsmobile 4X4 conversion-
