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The Truck Show Podcast

Ep. 223 - OLAF Mojave Road Adventure Fest

The Truck Show Podcast

Truck Famous, LLC.

Entrepreneurship, Leisure, Business, Automotive

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2022

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Recorded live from the MDHCA museum grounds in Goffs, California at the OLAF Mojave Road Adventure Fest, the guys share a little history, some cool experiences, and talk to a few truck owners about their personal rigs.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Lightning in Holman, live from the Mhavi Desert, it is Olaf 2022, that's O-L-A-F, overlanding ass!

0:07.6

All right, so we are at the overlanding adventure family in Katman here in

0:12.0

August, California. No, this is awesome. We were invited out by our friend Rory, who we will go

0:17.3

talk to you shortly, but we decided it was time for an entire show out in the middle of nowhere,

0:22.0

and we are literally out in the middle of nowhere. We're about 10 miles north of the 40, right off

0:26.8

the old trace of Route 66, and a little town called Goffs, which is about 40 miles west of needles,

0:33.1

and it's the front doorstep to the Mhavi National Preserve, and a ton of awesome BLM lands,

0:39.2

so for adventuring and off-roading and history, there isn't a better place out here, and the

0:46.8

Mhavi Desert Heritage and Cultural Association's headquarters is right here in Goffs, and you can

0:50.5

see behind us. Well, lightning, you can see behind me. Yes, yes, thank you.

0:53.9

Restored Goffs Schoolhouse, which serves as the museum, and then there's an amazing outdoor

0:57.9

museum here that has all these artifacts. In fact, today, you had a chance to see a real stant mill

1:02.4

that's like over a hundred years old operating. You walk up to your like, well, that's too dilapidated.

1:06.4

It's running! Right? Yeah, no, it's very cool. There's going to be a blacksmith out here,

1:12.1

there's going to be first-class miners allowing people to pan for gold and learn how to pan for gold.

1:16.8

We're going to bring you that audio, for sure. So, Quinn, my 16-year-old and I were walking around,

1:21.3

just before we fired up the podcast, and it's interesting, there's all these little rock trails.

1:25.4

Well, they're not, okay, sand, they're rocks that make a trail. Like, someone was either super

1:30.3

duper stoned or really bored and made all of these trails out here, so you go from like

1:35.6

little artifact area to little artifact area, and it's super bizarre. Lightning, it's an outdoor

1:40.7

museum, these are the pathways to guide you. No, no, no, no, the stuff, no, no, no, no, so there's

1:45.4

no plaques that say, you're in 19, no, absolutely, there's, okay, where you look, there's little

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