9/30/2015 Topic: Looking for a mechanic to install lift on Tacoma JBHogan	Hello forum members, Longtime lurker, first time poster here, looking for a reputable mechanic or shop to do a mild lift on a late model Tacoma. My plan is to purchase a Bilstein 5100 kit to get a basic 2" lift, but I don't have the resources available to perform the install work myself. I'm posting here in hopes that someone here will have a recommendation for a decent shop in the San Diego County area. Any advice is appreciated. Thanks, ~J
6/16/2017 Topic: 2017 Sheep Count info JBHogan	Orientation is tomorrow, June 17th, 9AM-1PM. Info at theABF.org.
9/9/2021 Topic: Unusual request: mylar balloons...wanted JBHogan	Dear forum members, This is not a request you'll receive every day, but I'm looking for as many "captured in the wild" mylar balloons as I can get. I'm an artist employing them as components in mixed-media assemblages, and I'm running out of specimens I've been able to gather myself over the years. I'll pay $5 apiece for them if you'd like to be compensated for your efforts. I live in central San Diego and can pick them up in person, or would be happy to pay additional for postage if a meetup can't work. I can pay via cash, and by all the usual electronic means. The condition of the balloons does not matter- they can be a day old or crumbling pieces from a decade in the sun. Ribbon tethers are part of my designs, so having those included would be nice, if they are present. Ideally, I'd like to have a rough location of where they were dicovered, whenever possible. I am serious about this. Feel free to contact me here via PM. Apologies if this is not the proper sub-forum for this topic; if so, please move to a more appropriate location. Respectfully, ~J
9/10/2021 Topic: Unusual request: mylar balloons...wanted JBHogan	Riches may still be yours... There are more arriving each day, I suppose. I usually bring a strong plastic bag so they don't come apart in the truck. For the purposes of the project, the decaying specimens are just as interesting as those still intact. I wish I could have seen that float; I'd have offered to take it apart for them, and remove the debris for free!
11/29/2021 Topic: Unusual request: mylar balloons...wanted JBHogan	I've had a couple folks reach out to me regarding found balloons, but was having difficulty with the DM feature recently- apologies for not being able to reply. If you want to contact me directly, you can also email me: vervushtigit@hotmail.com Thank you.
4/6/2022 Topic: Piepkorn slot JBHogan	Apologies for resurrecting an old thread, but I thought I'd give an update on the current condition of the slot, as of April '22, so anyone searching on the area will have more info. Last week we traveled northbound from the Dos Cabezas area along the road ending at Jojoba Wash. The damaged memorial is still there, with only a few tokens and coins left. In our short wheelbase 4x4 Tacoma were able to navigate the slot (which had only one set of faint tire tracks), and thought we were home free, right until the end of the road... From the plateau above the wash there are three routes down, all sandy descents similar to the one in Canyon Sin Nombre. Unfortunately, the wheelers have destroyed two of the three completely. I'm assuming they head southbound up the slopes with rock-crawler-type jeeps; there are 3 foot vertical drops in several places, some of which have been augmented with large rocks in an attempt to fill the holes. Total suicide. The third way down is a steep, sandy slope featuring a 90-degree turn halfway down with some large ruts. If one were equipped with lots of technical 4x4 experience and a high clearance, wide-tired Jeep they could probably make it, but we were a little leery of taking the chance, since it was mid-week with no one around to help us right the truck if we rolled it during the turn. After some cussing, we reversed our course and went back the way we came. We made it through the slot "uphill" and continued south. When we got home, I looked at Google Earth and found there was a "pin" on the slot, listing it as closed... In a way, turning around was a good thing: we spent the night at Hayden Spring, and in the morning had the good fortune to witness a group of four Bighorn rams grazing in the wash, about 50 meters away. They didn't seem bothered by us and stuck around for about 30 minutes, before casually heading up the rocks and out of sight.

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