Days Inn in Montrose Colorado

Nothin' like makin'  folks feel at home.

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Massacre sight.

In Lake City, CO.

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You man eating son of a bitch...

There were seven democrats in Hinsdale county and you ate five of them!

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Broke Bike Mountain

Rock will do that. Nathan's bike had arough go of it on Stagecoach. No parts to be found so "Soccer practice" (my name for nathans bike as it has spent a lot off time flopped on the ground) will have to be babied to avoid permanent fork damage.

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There's a story here.

Our stagecoah road turned out to be a 10 mile trials event. We ended up hauling ass off the mountain running from a rainstorm to no avail. Ball shriveling cold.

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East meets West

At Marshal pass. Yeah, we rode it.

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Good food here.

And the first nonsmartass we met in Colorado. Of 'course she was flirting to get a good tip, but what's that say about these shitferbrainstreehuggin'hippyasswipes ?

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No sense in takin' the easy way....

This is the old stagecoach route across Los Pinos pass to Lake City, Co.

Of course, we took it. And discovered there has been some serious degradation in the quality of the road over the last 150 years....

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Top of the world!

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We're not in Kansas anymore.

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The mountains are growing.

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Long Canyon NM

Had to repost.

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Only the best for us!

Not exactly the Ritz....

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The shame.

I hesitated to post this, but that's my brother making lime-ade out of a Modelo.

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I had the Grilled Tiger Shrimp. I ain't got the words....

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Salad on a tin plate and beans served in a mason jar.

Yes, that's a Shiner.

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Hungry!

Black Jack's Saloon in Trinidad Colorado.

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FYYFF

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Caught speeding in Branson, Colorado.

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Here we met a cowboy.

This is on switchbacks in Colorado an just around a sharp bend. I turned the corner and found the road completely blocked by cows. Red ones. We BS'd with the cowboy riding herd on them for a bit and had a smoke and a sit.

He had met a few folk riding our route and knew what we were up to. Seems we are a day behind a another group on its way to utah.

The trail looks steep because it is.

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Long Canyon, New Mexico

Like night and day from CO.

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Oklahoma behind us

Hard to believe we blew acros this state 5 yrs ago in 3hrs.

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Sunflowers by the mile.

Talked to the farmer. Said he needs to plow them up, "thems just weeds" but  he's workin' abput two miles up the road and he'll eventually get here.

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Freezin' my ass off in Oklahoma.

Maybe they'll let me stand by the stove....

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Up and at 'em.

Colorado today!

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Oklahoma provides a distraction from

Hot, flat, and dusty.

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Cowboy graveyard I found.

Nathan rolled right by it. Kids these days.

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Cactus Jacks!

Good eatin' and the first sweet tea we have found sinve leaving Tennessee.

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Bad Company

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This much fun should be illegal.

Or not.

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Wtf?

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Efficient interstate travel

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Oklahoma

Wish y'all were here.

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BW givin' a shout out!

Above is our most gracious host in front of Bunker/bungalow/porn studio

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West bound.

There's been a change in accoutrements, and we're a bit behind schedule bit we're headed for BW's (from Nathan's blog) place in Missouri to liberate my Grasshopper and Nathan's JAKL from trailer bondage (we can hardly bear the shame).

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I like these

But they won't fit on my suburban. Dammit.

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Deer strike.

Long leeged rats.

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Gettin' there.

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Much better.

You show promise, Grasshopper.

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Only in America....

...can you get to be 70 years old without figuring out government isn't the "by the people, for the people" warm, fuzzy, maternal entity they told you about in grammar school.

Drudge is covered up with hellraisin' "town hall" meetings about the government takeover of the medical industry, and it's the oldsters givin' the guff with snotty do-gooders who know what's best for us on the receiving end.

The delicious irony here is these blossoming curmudgeons are the same folk who have been standing around with their hands out and shifting responsibility for their own well being more and more to these same type party hacks for decades.

The bright side of all this is it gives the lie to the idea that what is deemed to be undesirable public opinion can be managed in extremis, whereby folks are pacified by platitudes and hippy soviet style propaganda, sort of the scientific approach to public opinion or what I see as an attempt at management in a void of leadership. I guess the Obama crew will have to replace "Like, it's 2009!" and "That's so yesterday."

This will not do, Grasshopper.

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So we begin

Pedestrian to predator.

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Nathan needs new goggles....

Check that item off the list.

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Prime time summer time.

The blackberries are ripe! Two gallons in the freezer already.

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Step 8.

Admire your progress. That's Mad Scientist Jamie there prepositioning the minikeg tank. We kinda ran out of steam due to the rigors of step two and called it a night. 5 liters is a lot of beer....

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Step 7.

Fit automotive filler neck.

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Step 6.

Remove CO2 charge canister and its mounting goop.

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Step 5.

Enlarge Bung Hole.
Please make juvenile comments.

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Step 4.

Prepare the Plasma Cutter. You don't really have to prepare aplasma cutter except for plugging it in, but I thought it deserved its own step.

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Step 2. OK, no sense in belaboring the obvious, so on to Step 3.

Mad Scientist Brent is extracting the bung.

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Step by step instructions for constructing an auxilliary fuel tank for a KLX250s

Step 1

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