WE BOUGHT AN FJ62 LANDCRUISER!

After a month away from home, we’re finally back in New York and so far, it’s a love-hate relationship. Thankfully, our next adventure is just around the corner (or at least it was supposed to be). A long and hard conversation had us rethinking whether we should keep fixing up our 2005 Ford Escape or cave-in and buy a real off-road 4×4 to take our overloading trips to the next level. We’ve had Toyota Land Cruisers on our minds since we started this so we did a quick search just to see if there was anything available for a reasonable price. We weren’t holding our breaths – Land Cruisers are expensive these days! But lo and behold, we found one within our budget (ok maybe a little over our budget but we thought it would be worth it). We felt like the luckiest people on the planet! So we went on a small road trip to New Jersey to pick it up and found ourselves smiling from ear to ear during the entire trip. Unfortunately, once we made it back to New York, it seems our lucky days were over…