We were 4 women who barely knew each other before we started (really), but we’ve all been RVers/travelers and I think that meant a lot. Us girls bonded like sticky glue, the good kind. Our days were so full they flew by, even as moments stood still while we were on the trail. Yet in that simple rhythm we packed in so many sights, smells and ever-changing views that our brains could barely remember everything we experienced from one hour to the next. Our days slowed to the step of our feet, our forward progress a snails pace of what is “normal” in this world. Just follow the pilgrims, one step at a timeĪs with all long walks it seemed to take forever, yet it was over just as we all were getting into the swing of things.Ĭamino Time became our hourglass, a parallel dimension where time seems to both slow and speed up. Pick up a brochure and you’ll see what I mean.Camino Portuguese (We Made It!) – The Day By Dayĭone, dusted and complete! A mere 15 days and ~280km after our group started at the Albergue in Porto we walked into the square of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela and yes, I may have shed a tear or two. Sorry, but I have to disagree on this one. A car-based pickup would be like the old El Camino which used the actual car chassis, or in more modern configuration like the old VW Golf pickups, which used a tansverse mounted FWD setup mounted on a unibody with the car rear suspension. Sorry, but the new Tacomas cannot in any way be considered car-based. The only real difference is the rolling gear and the transfer case, and larger wheels and tires. They come in standard cabs, optional extended cabs, and even crew cabs. They use the same engines as the 4X4s, and the same cabs and beds. They have twin A-frame front ends with shocks instead of struts, torsion bar front suspension, and every single configuration characteristc of a truck. Toyota 2WD pickups on the other hand have seperate cabs and beds mounted on a full frame (the same frame as the 4X4) with a longitudinally mounted engine with driveshaft, solid rear axles, leaf rear springs and even better clearance than cars. So if you’re deciding between a 2wd truck and a 4wd truck like this, you have to consider more than just if you need the actual 4-wheel drive or not. I’m just pointing out that despite the two vehicles sharing a model name and appearance they are in fact quite different and designed to do different things. ![]() The 2wd Toyotas (and other 2wd minitrucks) are wonderfully economical and capable vehicles, and I’m certainly not suggesting that they’re anything other than great work vehicles. I owned a 4x4 for a long time and knew a guy who has a field full of all sorts of Toyota trucks and so I became intimately aquainted with what does and doesn’t interchange, and almost nothing does. Maybe the newer ones are more similar, but on the old ones I’m familiar with it’s a lot more than tweaks- almost nothing other than the engine and the body and interior parts are the same between the the two versions and almost everything is bigger on the 4x4, even things like the rear suspension and the brakes that don’t have to be beefed up soley because of the 4wd. Perhaps I should have been clearer- I’m not saying they’re like a “modern” front wheel drive unibody car, I was thinking more along the lines of an older rear wheel drive frame-on cars (like an El Camino).
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