• Trips

    5th ORT Washita MX 11-19-11

    My neighbor and I ran down to Washita this past Saturday and met up the SJIA group. Since the neighbor was along for the ride, I got a plethora of photos out of the deal. I won’t post them all in this thread, but this link has the rest (there’s about 300 photos or so): Link to all the photos here (click) Somehow I got elected to lead this group around the park again, so we wandered through A-4, up…

  • Garage Projects,  Trips

    4th ORT – SMORR 10-15-11

    Well we made it down to SMORR again for their “SMORR in the fall” event. Which mostly just entailed us wandering around SMORR again. The truck did fairly well, but it was not without some downfalls. Travel: For the better part of the day, the wife and I followed the rasin: And Casper the invisible Cherokee: Random Shots from the day: At some point after lunch, Casper bugged out and we started playing around with a couple of buggy type…

  • South Dakota,  Trips,  Wyoming

    2011 WY/MT Trip – Day 10

    Mondays Suck You know the saying, “If it weren’t for bad luck, I wouldn’t have any luck”? Well that appears to apply well to me. We jumped in the truck this morning and I was happy to find that the clutch had healed itself overnight. So we topped off the tank and hit the road for our last 12 hour stretch which would have put us home at 5 ish. At about 60 miles into the trip, in the middle…

  • South Dakota,  Trips

    2011 WY/MT Trip – Day 9

    Today we wound our way by Mt Rushmore, and through the Badlands of SD. Travel: On the way to Mt Rushmore: Mt. Rushmore: Of course, we had to stop by Wall Drug on the way (worth the stop if you’re going by): Badlands: And now we’re here in Oacoma SD, which is about 12 more hours from home. True to the nature of the beast, the truck is trying to break again. When I pulled off the interstate and pushed…

  • Montana,  South Dakota,  Trips

    2011 WY/MT Trip – Day 8

    Today we two-laned it from East Glacier to Billings MT, and then rode the interstates to Custer SD. About 12 hours total of windshield time today. Heading out to Glacier to Billings: We stopped at this greasy spoon for lunch, it was some fine eat’n! Saw this Cat cruising around Billings: Billings to SD: And crossing into SD: That’s all for today! On to Day 9