Leaving Telluride, we took gravel through the mountains, along an awesome plateau meadow, having lunch near another creek before dropping down into relatively flat, plain landscape. We dipped through a canyon and found our way to our destination, a single wide trailer on an 800 acre cattle ranch in Dove Creek, CO, along the Colorado Utah border. This was another […]
With Crestone in our rear view, we headed northwest into the vast, flat, San Luis Valley before being squeezed out of the valley and back into the mountains. We started out on pavement today before picking up the gravel Marshall Pass road that goes over the continental divide. So far we have not seen rain on this trip, and as […]
From it’s start at the swampy convergence of the Little Osage, Maries des Cygnes, and Marmaton Rivers near Schell City, MO, the Osage River flows through central Missouri before draining into the Missouri River, east of Jefferson City. By building a dam near Bagnell, MO, the Osage River between Warsaw and Lake Ozark became the Lake of the Ozarks. For […]
He was born in the summer of his 27th yearComing home to a place he’d never been beforeHe left yesterday behind him, you might say he was born againYou might say he found a key for every door When he first came to the mountains his life was far awayOn the road and hanging by a songBut the string’s already […]
Waking up in Wichita, we were delighted that we were alive, and nothing terrible happened while we all slept in a stranger’s basement. Not yet settling into a routine, since it was our first morning on the road, the kids argued over muffins and argued more as we loaded back into Jethro to start our day of driving. They are […]
After buying a dirt bike that is legal to ride on the roads, I have been planning routes and trails that avoid other vehicles as much as possible. Exploring back-roads and trails is interesting, fun, and hopefully will keep me from being ran over by a texting motorist. One of the possible trails I was looking at is the old […]
Part II video from this summer with some Kid Rock
Finally messed with our videos and pictures from the trip now that it is cold here. Part I – Van Hagar
DAY ONE “You assholes can all stay at home!” I remind the rest of the family a week or so before we set out on an unusual journey from MO to WA, using over a thousand miles of gravel and dirt roads along the way. Over the long winter, I dreamed about, then planned this trip. In the process a […]
