| These days, you have to blaze your own trails in | | | | mighty grimy mighty quick, so be sure to slap on |
| order to avoid slogging through traffic. But you can't | | | | some truck mud flaps first. |
| just start motoring your pickup through a stranger's | | | | For the urban off-roader, I have just 2 words for |
| backyard naked. You need to have a plan of attack | | | | you: train tracks. Any set of railroad or trolley tracks |
| and a few accessories along for the ride because | | | | is ideal for getting across town in a hurry. A few |
| things can get mighty hairy. Here are my thoughts | | | | warnings, though: public transportation is notorious for |
| for all you intrepid traffic-phobes out there. | | | | making frequent stops, so be sure to leave plenty of |
| Traffic is a lot like jury duty. The only people who | | | | room between yourself and that big steel sausage in |
| have to suffer through it are the ones who don't | | | | front of you. Also, this technique can get a tad |
| have enough sense to dodge it. Now, we all know a | | | | bumpy, so I don't recommend eating a Slim Jim while |
| million and one ways to thumb our nose at civic | | | | you do it, unless you have no gag reflex. What's |
| responsibilities, but getting out of gridlock requires | | | | more, tunnels can get damn dark, so I'd suggest |
| some higher-order thinking. I mean, you can't just | | | | adding some Piaa lights onto your truck. That and a |
| show up at the freeway onramp nibbling on a raw | | | | set of sturdy shocks are about all you need to start |
| hotdog without any pants on and expect everyone | | | | up your very own Blue Line. |
| to get out of your way like they do down at the | | | | Well, those ideas should give you a good starting |
| courthouse. Here are a handful of ideas on how you | | | | point for figuring out how the best, most reckless |
| can creatively make your way around town without | | | | method for steering clear of traffic. The only other |
| ever having to idle away on an overpass. | | | | nugget of wisdom I can impart on all of you budding |
| As people move farther and farther away from the | | | | automotive anarchists is this: don't skimp on seat |
| cities, suburbs and exurbs looking for affordable | | | | covers. You'll be going where no pickup was intended |
| housing and safer streets, rural roads are becoming | | | | to go, so you'll be hitting plenty of uneven terrain. All |
| more clogged than a teenager's pores. Thankfully, | | | | that rocking while you're rolling will ultimately lead to |
| there's no more fertile ground for plotting out a | | | | some nasty spills, and the only thing worse than a big |
| stop-and-go free commute than The Sticks. Anytime | | | | smudge of barbeque sauce on your leather |
| the thoroughfare gets swamped, just pull off the | | | | upholstery is sitting in traffic. Happy Trails. |
| shoulder, drop into 4-wheel drive, and gun it. Don't let | | | | Choosing the right resource for car and truck |
| front yards scare you off, either-gravel can be | | | | accessories can be important and so that you are |
| re-raked, clothes lines will be found eventually, and | | | | not using your Blackberry whilst driving, I would |
| mailboxes are always on sale. The only downside to | | | | recommend the following: seat covers, Piaa lights and |
| rough-riding through the mud is that your rig can get | | | | truck mud flaps. - David S. |