Brian & Emma

Welcome to our page.

About us

Hello and welcome to our page. I’m Brian and I’m married to my lovely wife Emma. We’ve been married for twenty-five or so years and have six adult children between the two of us. We also have eleven grandchildren, and one great grandchild.

I spent twenty-eight years in the Air Force and another twelve as a contractor working for the AF.

Emma spent most of her career in the legal field, as an office administrator, legal secretary and a few other positions.

We are both retired now, and enjoying the golden years, every ache and pain of it all. We moved back to Alamogordo in 2019. This is Emma’s home town, so it only made sense to come back and enjoy the small-town life. When we moved back, I looked up some of my old wheeling friends and rejoined the Desert Mountain Four Wheel Drive Club. Now I’m the President, secretary, video editor, Face Book admin, and web page editor and what ever else. It’s a very small club. Enjoy the pictures below. Thanks for checking out our page.

Have a great day.

A Break from Rock Crawling

Current Off Road Rides

1996 Jeep Cherokee XJ

The XJ has seen numerous mods and upgrades. Here are some of the things I’ve done over the last four years.

Rewired the engine bay
Upgraded the cooling system, 5 electric fans, two variable controllers, new aluminum radiator, high flow goose neck and water pump
DIY roll cage from Welderd.com
Removed carpet installed rubber flooring and sound deadening insulation.
New head liner
Tinted windows
Five Point Harness
ARB twin air compressor and air tank
Custom bumpers, tire carrier, rock sliders and skid plates
8 inch lift kit from Iron Rock Offroad
Fox shocks
Custom Tom Woods drive shafts
New axles from East Coast Gear Supply, Dana 60 rear with 5.38 gears and Grizzly locker, Dana 489 front same setup (bolt-in)
38 inch Nitto Trail Grapplers mounted on Vision Manx Beadlock 17×9.5 -44 offset, no spacers or adapters
Custom rebuilt steering box, plumbed for hydo assist by Blue Top Steering
Steering upgrade includes a Redneck ram and solid 1.5 inch drag link and tie rod from Cavfab
New paint DIY by me, hood vents, CB and GMRS radios
Frame stiffeners from front to rear
Rear fender tubs are stretched four inches and custom steel flares added to front and rear
Custom mid vehicle tool storage to help with weight distribution
There’s more, but you get the idea, I built this to handle hard trails with out breaking all the time, so far so good.

2019 Honda Talon

Not going into detail, but the Talon has probably seen as many mods as the XJ. Wheels, tires, roll cage, bumpers, winch, skid plate, seats, harnesses, and the list goes on.

Rides of the Past

I’ve been lucky enough to have some really nice rides over the years, and there are a few I wish I would have kept; like the 1969 Dodge Charger I had in high school. Haven’t found a picture of that one yet.