When we first entered the Jeepin’ community as a magazine in the fall of 2017, we were invited by Central Florida’s Blackwater Jeepers to sponsor the first annual Jeeps vs. Harleys event. It was a baptism by fire, and I mean that in the best
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Tags: Driver's Seat, Jeeps Vs. Harleys
Posted in Driver's Seat, In This Issue
You could say it was inevitable. Since it launched from our Tampa offices in early 2017, Jeepin’ Central Florida has been one of the best-kept secrets in the off-road world, read only by a select group of regional Jeep enthusiasts. Or so we thought. As
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Posted in Driver's Seat
As a police officer’s kid, I had a very personal relationship with law enforcement. My father went from the Marines to the police departments of several major cities before he decided we would all be better off in a small town. We moved to Belleair,
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Tags: 2003 Harley-Davidson Fat Boy Raffle, Concerns of Police Survivors, COPS, Driver's Seat, Krawl’n for the Fallen, law enforcement
Posted in Driver's Seat
Held last October at Pasco Safety Town in Shady Hills, Fla., Jeep vs. Harley was a huge success. Central Florida Jeepers and Harley riders joined forces to raise $16,000 for charity. They also threw a heck of a party at the end of the convoy.
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Nov. 30 marks the end of what will be one of the most destructive hurricane seasons on record. From the Gulf of Mexico to the Caribbean, hundreds of lives and thousands of homes have been lost to wind, rain and flooding. Those of us who
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Posted in Driver's Seat
My grandfather taught me to drive the same way he learned: through the fields, in a beat-up work truck, at age 12. It would be several years before I operated an automatic transmission on a paved street. Boring! I haven't been Jeepin' — yet —
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New trails are the best kind. You never know what obstacles you will encounter. It's a test of your off-road skills and vehicular capacity. Every success is uniquely triumphant. Every failure is a true learning experience. It's better than real life. After 20-plus years in
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Tags: Driver's Seat, Letters
Posted in Driver's Seat