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Belle Smith Springs – 6/1/16
We wandered down to Belle Smith Springs to hike a couple of trails before they got to overgrown. We wound up not quite heading the way we meant to on the trails but ended up back at one of the best spots at Devil’s Backbone. Running the backroads: In the mini-minivan adventure mobile: Rather picturesque parking area: With all the rains recently, the creek was up quite a bit which made some of the crossings interesting: We eventually ran into…
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Michigan 2014
After life became a bit more stable since the addition of our first born son, we decided to run up to Michigan for a short vacation. This was our first long ‘family’ trip out and I was impressed at how much stuff a kid needs to travel with. This is only half of the stuff that was crammed into the Merc, thus killing my dreams of a 2 door build: We bunked up with the Grandparents at a nice little…
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Castor River Shut-ins and Meramec State Park 10-26-14
We’ve been doing a bit of wandering the past couple of weekends. Loaded up the Merc: And went to Castor River Shut Ins again: And we’ve also hit Meramec Park on both the St. James and Sullivan MO side:
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Castor River Shut-in 8-18-14
We ran down to the Castor River Shut-Ins to look around on Sunday, taking the back way in on the rock roads and dodging the rain the best we could: And for another rare sight, I don’t recall the last time I saw a Tin Top running down the road:
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Valley View Glades 8-11-14
With all the rain recently we were hoping to finally catch some flowing water at Valley View Glades this weekend. But no dice. Apparently you have to be down there while it’s raining to actually see the waterfalls in action. We rode down in the lap of luxury: