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In with Black Bear. This movie includes the steps and the first couple of switchbacks. The road from Hwy 550 to Telluride is ~13 miles and very scenic.

You have seen 2021. Here comes 2022. It's not a spectacular as 2021. But is has been fun. My wife and I take turns picking destinations for our trips. I like the mountains; she likes the beach. 2022 started with a return to South Padre Island, TX, this time for a month. South Padre Island...

Back home in South Carolina, I took a short trip to the nearby mountains to get my tires wet. I've been exploring the dirt and gravel roads of the GA/TN/NC mountains since 2003. In 20012, I developed a route of mostly dirt roads called the Smokey Mountains 500 (mis-spelling intentional). (1)...

From Challis Idaho, David and Val went home. We drove to Kalispel, Montana where our daughter was flying in to spend the week with us. We visited Glacier National Park, the national Bison Range, and Kootenai Falls. Here are a few photos to document to week. Go, go gladiator! The water is...

I like to make movies on my trips. Movies are easy to film, but hard to share. Besides, who can sit still for more than a minute to watch somebody else's movie? Here are some of the other movies from my Colorado-Oregon - Idaho trip. We took a Jet boat ride on the rogue river in Oregon...

Valerie and David are friends from our motorcycle days. They live in Floridia. David went jeep crazy about the same time I did, and then he retired and bought an RV too. Our trip (reported here) was the first thing we have done together that was more than just a one-day activity. As it...

We moved from Riggins, ID to Challis, ID. The main reason for staying in Challis was to ride the Custer toll Rd, visit Custer, and see the mining dredge. This map shows the route. Yankee Fork Gold Dredge The girls were trying out for office jobs. Oil prices were better back then...

My gladiator is lightly modified. I added a full width Rockhard Patroit soon after I bought the truck. I chose the Rockhard bumper because it provides a way to tow the Gladiator. Rockhard products are often the high-priced option, but in this case I was getting a winch plate, tow points, and...

It was smoky from forest fires in Idaho, and that affected my big landscape photos. I still went out the last day with my fancy camera to try for some special shots. The photos turned out OK, but you should have been there! It's me! Way down at the bottom is the Salmon river. The most...

Let's go to Yellowpiner, the most remote town in Idaho. Yellowpine is ~ 50 miles of dirt road from McCall, ID. The road is good. the scenery is gooder. Gladiator leads the way! We made it (wife was driving :) ). Beautiful downtown Yellowpine. Snake!

In 2015, I did a motorcycle trip around the Frank church wilderness with some of my riding friend. I wrote a ride report and shared it on ADVrider. https://www.advrider.com/f/threads/my-dad-rode-the-six-days-of-idaho-and-all-i-got-was-a-t-shirt.1084303/ We left Crater Lake headed towards...

We left the Oregon coast headed for Idaho but planned an overnight stop near Crater Lake. It was smoky at Crater Lake and you can see that in the photos. This little guy was a serious begger. David and Val are still on the road with us. The smoke cleared the next moring which really...

It's beach week! The Oregon coast is magical. Battle rock On June 10, 1851, Battle Rock—a basalt promontory at Port Orford on the southern Oregon coast—was the site of a deadly confrontation between a landing party from Portland and the Quatomah, an Athapaskan people who lived in the area...

Jeeps are popular with RV'ers because they are so easy to rig for 4 down towing. Four down towing is great because the toad (read Jeep) follows directly in the campers tracks on turns. Throw in the versatility and resale value, and taking a Jeep camping becomes an attractive proposition.

Next up? Moab! We camped at Archview RV Resort north of Moab. You can see the arches form the RV park, but they are out there. Sunrises were worth getting up for. Enough of that, we are here to Wheel. Gladiator leads the way! Rough Road ahead. This slope at Fins N" Things was...

Both my wife and I had demanding jobs, i.e., it was hard to get more than one week off at a time. That limited our trips to nearby stuff for years. It has been eye opening to see the country. It's all beautiful. Well, except for Midlands/Odessa, TX. Midlands. That area is ugly, but they...

One of the things I wanted to do while in South Fork was ride across Stony Pass. Stony is my favorite San Juan Pass, but it is looonnnggg. We left early and drove all day to get to Silverton and back (back by the paved roads). You should have been there. Dog days along the shores of the...

My wife and I live in South Carolina. We like to go on 2 or 3 "big" camping trips a year, and then a few week long or weekender trips in between the big ones. We had a big plan for a summer trip in 2021. We wanted to travel to the west coast and back, wheeling along the way. Another couple...

On the way home from Big Bend, we stopped in Alpine, TX for a couple of days. I went looking for a Terlingua Racing Team sticker for the Gladiator and found The Stable for Performance Cars, owner Dave Durant. Dave had my sticker and some other neat stuff. thestablealpine.com | World Class...

Thanks for the encouragement. We left South Padre Island and headed to Big Bend to Wheel with some friends. I've been to Big Bend several times and love it. It is an excellent winter adventure destination. Big Bend is different. A fine group of experienced travelers The author in Mexico...