THE CATEGORIES:
THE RATING SYSTEM:
5: Whikkid Killah Awesome (the Absolute Best)
4: Pretty Darn Good Stuff
3: Decent, worthy of a possible second visit
2: Uh, not so great
1: Wouldn't even recommend to my ex-girlfriend in VT.
CURRENT USA STATES:
Colorado, Texas, Nevada, Utah, California
*Disclaimer: Some of the comments within may be found offensive and hurtful by some people... too bad go sit on a couch and talk to someone about it or just PUT IT IN 4-Lo and get over it!
Magazines/Books
(The official magazine of JEEP JAMBOREE USA)
"now dat's some serious chit"!!!!
In particular check out the following pages listed in addition to all the really cool stuff.
Pg 18 Jeep Grille Adventures gets a little P.R.
Pgs. 82-83 (there are familiar faces in a little pink Jeep (Daddy's Girl) young Jeeper in training and a fuzzy Trail Bound Jeep Hound (4-Lo Rose).
Pgs. 92 - 102 are a group of expedition folks I wheel with: I didn't go on the Mexico trip but hope to one day!
Another 5+++Whikkid Killah!!!!
A balanced approach of Hardcore Competition to the Homebuilt Trailrider coverage and about everthing in between. The articles are extremely well articulated and the photography is innovative, fresh and just damn bitchin! They are a growing in print rag that is well worth your well earned "dollah bill y'all".
GO GET ISSUE #16
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Article: Bangers and Hangers
Colorado Carnage Canyon (Bldr)
JGA with the gang of Crane-Hi Crew!
COLORADO
on the Trails Urban and Offroad:
COLO: EQUIPMENT/SHOPS/STUFF
CRANE HI CLEARANCE
5+++ Whikkid Frikkin Killah Awsome!
Protect your investments!
Beware of the lame/limp ? imitation-wanna-be's-posers, those that are garage queens and those that show
NO actual REAL use of thier COVERS or their RIGS! Yeah let's drive over diff covers with big trucks with big rubber tires, that's real frikkin proof that a diff cover works.....NOT!
No POSERS here my friends, this is the real deal underside of the JGA Rig, it actually gets used; pounds up, over and into big rocks!
It's quite simple...
GO BIG or GO HOME...
go 
! AMERICAN MADE, AMERICAN OWNED
No limp or lameness here, all straight up, hardcore! An ol' kitchen saying of ours... "Run with the big dawgs or stay on the porch with the puppies"!
Driveline Specialists:
Henderson, CO
5 ++ WHIKKID FRIKKIN KILLAH
When it comes to needing driveshafts built, rebuilt or plain ol' fixed these are the folks to go to and GIT- IT-DONE!! Believe me I've had enough driveshaft dealings from my wheelings and anytime I do I go to them.
They are easily located off of Highway 76 and 88th Ave just north of downtown Denver. They work quickly with attention to quality. Check out one of the thier own crew's (Jon) Yellow and Green rig on Carnage B.V. (That's Buena Vista, CO for non-Colo Folks)
Discount Muffler & Brake
4300 E. Evans Ave. Denver, CO 80222 303.756.6656
Chuck and his staff are the absolute best. Chuck and his team have an immense knowledge and skill of everything exhaust and brakes. The DM&B team takes care of everyone from the average Joe to the big dogs of the 4x4 world such as Crane Hi Clearance and Poison Spyder to name a few. COMING SOON a second larger location on Santa Fe. Blvd.
Poison Spyder Customs, Denver
Sorry great solid products but without great detail...NO THANKS!!
"What come around go around"! Cypress Hill
CO: RESTAURANTS/EATERIES/BODY FUEL/BELLY FUEL
Terrace Maya, North Boulder, CO
Next to the BustStop,
I must say service wise it was the very worst of the worst EVER. Almost 1.5 hours to get food and it wasn't even busy. They did make good by reducing the bill and sending a full round of the 'ol T&T out. So kudos for that!
(T&T: Tecate and Tequilla)
Usually a good hangout for what it is. I won't trash on it too bad cause it is usually a great spot for at least a cold beverage, warm food and usually mediocre service at best.
Price: 3 - Overpriced for what it is.
Service: 3 Fair (earn points for messed up service)
Food: 4 They accomodated an odd order of mine.
Cleanliness: 4.5 - Good use of "green" lessening the possibility of global warming...ice in the toilets.
Comfort: 4 The outdoor covered patio section was good almost too hot from the heater at times.
Beverage: 5 - Tecate and Tequilla Pretty hard to screw those up, although did take overwhelmingly long to get.
Parking/Lighting: 5
Hostess/Server: The guy server we had N/A.
If you dig Boulder hippie chickies this is the place to go, bring your own Patchouli oil.
Bartender: See above regarding hippie chickies.
Close to Trails: Carnage, Left Hand Canyon
Ian's Mountain Bakery: Granby
Whikkid Killah. Wake and Bake Cheesecake. Say hi to Ian.
Trails: Mulstay Jeep Trail, Cabin Creek Road Systems
Burke & Riley's Irish Pub: Breckenridge
Doesn't get any better for brew and pub grub!
Say hi to both Burke & Riley from Chef D if they are around.
I promise you won't get hit or have the police called on you!
Trails: Red Cone and others in proximity.
Oskar Blue's Brewery and Blues Bar: Downtown Lyons
WHIKKID KILLAH AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!! Great Cajun influenced food. Service Colo Causual and just right. Also see brews.
Say hey to Dale if he's around.
www.oskarblues.com
Trails: Carnage, Left Hand Canyon
Villa Tatra Europen Eatery & Smokehouse: North of Lyons on HghWy 36
Old school European/Polish food... Julian, Elizabeth and Family are just the most gracious hosts.
www.villatatra.com
Scenic Trail: Highway 36 into Estes, Rocky Mountain NP
Stagestop: Rollinsville
Awesome...did I say awesome...PIE not cherry or apple I'm talkin PIZZA!
Close to Trails: Pickle Gulch, Rollinsville Pass, Jenny Creek, Coney Flats
Jenny's: Empire
Whikkid Killah hot dogs and fries!!!!!!!
Try the Rueben too. It is "gianormous"!
Their breakfasts are great!
Big, bold and flavorful Bloody Mary's!
Close to Trails: Bill Moore, Red Elephant Hill, Spring Creek
Kermit's: Highways 6/I-70
Great watering hole for after the trail. Sometimes live music.
Loud pipes save lives!
Trails: Bill Moore, Red Elephant Hill, Spring Creek
Eagle's Nest Truckstop: I-70/Westslope
Friendly service. Food was filling and let's leave it at that.
Close to Trails: Coming back from Rd 21, Moab, Flat Tops
COLO: BREWS Coming Soon:
Old Chub, Dale's Pale Ale, MOJO, Fat Tire
TEXAS:
TEX: Brews
STEEL RESERVE: Ft. Worth
Man talk a bout bang for da buck! Steel Reserve comes in at the high $7 or low $8 range for a 12-pack.
The bonus: aach "Extra Malted Barley and Select Hops for EXTRA GRAVITY" contains a whopping 8.1%. That's almost like a full case in a 12 pack!
It tastes damn good too when served chilled!
SHINER BOCK
SHINER BLONDE
SHINER BLACK
TEX: RESTAURANTS/EATERIES/BODY FUEL/BELLY FUEL
Ragin Cajun Restaurant: HOUSTON Westheimer & Gessner
(they have other locations within H-Town)
5's ALL THE WAY
This is "DA-BOMB-DOT-COM" for anything and everythin' Cajun FO SHO!
NEVADA:
NEV: BREWS
NEV: RESTAURANTS/EATERIES/BODY FUEL/BELLY FUEL
Las Vegas: 
Javier's Lindo Michoacan Restaurant: What overated fluff of Americanized Mexican food. Can you say *guerros might enjoy it?! The one great thing about this place, as I do give credit where credit is due: cleanliness and beverage quality. It is really hard to screw up opening a can of Tecate, and the lime accompaniments for the Tecate were plentiful. The quality of the poor excuse for salsa was the worst I have ever had!
The "lengua" (toungue, yes what cows lick with) tacos were flavorless but at least melt in your mouth tender. The safe bet my co-pilot (a chef also) ordered of chicken burrito was o.k., but agreed that the salsa was the poorest ever. The bottle of Pacifico was equally as pleasing
and satisfying as the can of Tecate. I would much rather have gone to a roach coach or true (lo vero) carneceria or taqueria.
Price: 1 Miserable: $3.75 for a taco can you say "Que paso chingaso!?!?!?!" Give me tacos that cost $1.25 each, East Colfax style!!
Service: 3
Food: 2.5 at least it was safe to eat and I didn't have the runs the next day. (salsa gets a rating in the negatives)
Cleanliness: 5
Comfort: 4 Big seats/booths
Beverage: 5 Tecate and Pacifico: Very Cold and Carbonated
Parking/Lighting: 5
Hostess: 5++
Bartender N/A
Waiter: Don't go that way!
*Guerro: Latin for "white folks".
Big Momma's: Las Vegas
Even though we didn't go there it looked like a killer down home soul food place. A future trip would include this as a stop. I would have to say it wasn't in the safest of areas of Vegas just north of the glitz and glamour of the strip. Highly suggested to go during daylight hours.
VIVA Laughlin, NV:
Bayshore Inn/Motel & Lazy River Lounge
Wow is all I can say!!! Off the strip a few miles from the glitz of big ole Laughlin this obviously 60 or 70's built hotel is AWESOME!!! Cheap, clean and awesome parking to name a few of the things we found great about this place.
The in-hotel Lazy River Lounge is the place to be, not necessarily for major gambling...well that depends on how you look at it I guess! Great for meeting local folks, hangin out and shooting pool. The local folk provide plenty of great discussion and entertainment.
The bartenders are gracious hostesses, extremely friendly and courteous, visit and you can decide the rest. The chatter and action is lively and can get really
interesting after 1am and we'll just leave it at that.
This place (both motel and lounge) gets 5 ratings accross the board!!!!
We didn't have any food and I don't even remember if there was a menu other than liquid. The liquid trinity was workin' that night.
The ambiance and comfort of our room was clean, big and very comfortable.
The lounge was more updated than the 1950's feel of the motel it felt warm and inviting with great dark wood and deep rich colors. It was great!
The only gambling that is present were the bartop video machines. So the desire to just hang out and no pressure to gamble suited me just fine. If you do stop by say hi to old Al from Massachusettes as he shoots a great stick.
WARNING: Oh yeah... beware of Mistress Kitty! P.S. DO NOT.... I REPEAT
DO NOT MENTION "MILK JUGS" to Mistress Kitty!!!
She may just take care of you jailhouse style, however being nice she just might spit first!
UTAH:
UT: BEER?!? Is there even such a thing? The answer.....YES we'll talk about it soon!
ARCHVIEW CAMPGROUND: Moab, UT (north of town)
Overall great and very clean. If you enjoy the nightlife of Moab you may want to stay a little closer as it is several miles north of town. Please respect the quiet time of 10pm especially around the community fire pit. Voices travel in the open night air. Chuck was an awesome host/owner!!! We stayed at a tent site and it was nice. Great parking for vehicles and trailers in tow (I trailered the Jeep this time with my Expedition).
ZAK's PIZZA: Moab, Ut
Decent and worth the second visit in 2 years time.
Cold beer and warm tasty pizza, what more could one ask for?
INSIDER CHEF NOTE: I noticed this time around abnormally large crusts and not much fixins!
A foodservice establishment will save $$ by putting less toppings
on a pizza and that is exactly what they do or at least did when I visited the second time (5/08).
Price: 3.5 Decent for what it was worth. Eat less crusts and more middle and would go to a 4.5 for sure.
Food Quality: 3.5 See above under price.
Service: 3 Decent
Cleanliness: 4
Comfort: 4.5 Good but it was overly cold in the dining room, I could've put on pants instead of shorts I suppose.
Beverage: 5 Beer, Cold and Carbonated Good Selection
MOAB DINER, Moab, UT:
+'s Not overly impressed but it will satisfy most. Clean.
-'s Bathrooms outside...no don't go pee on the tree, the bathrooms are towards the back on the north side of the building.
Price: 3
Service: 3.8 Freindly and slightly too relaxed.
Food Quality: 3 Edible lukewarm-to-cold
Comfort: 3.5 Cold and uninviting, it is what it is....a diner. This is intentional it is for a higher turn of the tables so they can get the next folks in and out too.
Beverage: 3 A fair cup of git-ya-goin coffee.
LATE NIGHT COFFEE RANT!
Let me begin by saying that finding coffee on the first 200 miles of I-15 after 10pm was like trying to find an alcoholic beverage on a sunday in Salt Lake City without a "membership".
I am appauled by this lack of caffine and find it very disturbing!! WTF is wrong with Southern Utah?!?!?!?
Richfield, UT:
Chinese Restaurant (how many of them can there be in Richfield?!?!?!?) Recommended by a fellow offroader Jim Brightly from the Mojave 2007 trip and Moab 2008.
Pulling into this quaint little highway town at 8:30am didn't allow us to visit the highly recommended Chinese Restaurant. It is said "the shrimp with walnuts and honey glaze is to die for"! A must stop if time allows on a trip from the western states to the mecca of Moab or us Colorado folk traveling to California or Nevada.
Suggeted Ratings;
Food Quality: 5
Cleanliness: 5
Others: TBD at point of visit
MOAB OUTPOST 4x4
5
Parts and stuff. Decent and good natured folks. Fair prices. The wrong part was ordered for me last trip out but by my own fault for not triple checking before heading back to Denver with the part. At the end of the day, they got me parts I needed quickly. It's all good. Steve was great to work with in getting product returned and reimbursed. Also let me purchase a part as a back-up while the other was being shipped and return without a restock fee.
Suggestion/Note: Double, Triple and Quadruple check through your stuff before completion of transactions. This would hold true anywhere.
Muchas Gracias to MO4x4 great service!
CALIFORNIA:
Baker, CA
Taqueria: On-ramp for I-15 and Main St. Intersection
This is more like what I am used to in the Denver/Aurora Colorado area. Authentic, not so great looking and smelling taqueria. When we arrived it must have been just after the dinner rush, every seat was empty but tables were full of unfinshed food. The place had the aroma of a restroom, must be good food??
I ordered the Lengua (yes I like cow tongue) burrito. It was plentiful, hot, tender and seasoned well. My co-pilot stayed safe with a "guerro" classic chicken burrito. The chips were decent and salsa... edible and better than Michoacan, which really isn't saying much! No beer here, but the horchata was good. Horchata is a sweet and flavorful rice water beverage.
Price: 5 - $1.50 a taco or $3.25 for a whopping burrito!! Now that's more like it!!
Service: 4.5 with a smile.
Food: 3.9
Cleanliness: 3.5 - Anyplace that stinks like a restroom has to be questionable. No runs though, so that helps considerably.
Comfort: 3.8 Big seats/booths, felt comfortable to be there, although most guerros may not.
Beverage: 5 - Horchata was great.
Parking/Lighting: 5 Being right at the intersection of the onramp and Main St. gives this a good rating. Don't know about the lighting as it was still daylight while there.
Hostess/Server: 3.5
Bartender: N/A
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