My personal postal story started when I was doing research for my hopeful purchase of a CJ of some flavor. Surfing around one day, I found a great postal CJ-8 website http://akpostal.com/postal.html which is the page for Dan Morrisey, the guy I ended up buying mine from. I checked out the postals there and thought that it would be really cool to find one, but being that they are almost all still in Alaska, I didn't really think much of it. Not long after that, but before I got much further in my Jeep hunt, my brother moved to Anchorage for an adventuresome spring and summer before starting in the Peace Corps in the fall. That prompted a family trip to Anchorage to visit him and see Alaska while we could. In talking to my brother about the family trip, I joked that it would be cool if I could buy a postal and move him and his stuff back to the east coast rather than him having to sell some stuff off and pack the rest onto a plane for a boring ride home encased in a flying metal tube.

After that joke, the thought kinda lingered in my head and I went back to look at the web sites I had found before. The first site I checked out was Dan's and there was a new link at the top: "FOR SALE". Alarms, bells, warning lights, neon signs and every other attention getting device known to man suddenly were all blaring inside my head. Sure enough, Dan was looking to sell the three postals he'd collected. I emailed him and asked about the mechanical condition of them and he thought that the one that he had with the hard top would be able to make the drive with just some routine maintenance. That started things off in earnest.

From there the coincidences only got even more impressive and unbelievable with the culmination being Rockcrawler.com wanting to post my trip reports and pictures and 4WD Hardware agreeing to sponsor me with parts and tools!

I ended up buying the Jeep during my family's trip and when they left I spent a couple weeks doing the needed repairs and installations to get my new postal road ready. For all of the in depth stuff, head to Rockcrawler, it will keep you in reading material for quite a while! Jason and I headed off on July 18th and I made it to Durham, NC (after dropping my brother in Maryland) on July 29th.