• Garage Projects,  Gear Review

    So Long Stinky! Let’s Get Fit!

    After many household runs, work trips, and other commuting, it was time to let Stinky go. There were many times when I was needing to haul more than one person around with me. So I took the boy for one last ride in “Dada’s Truck” And went up to the local Honda Dealer: …to pick up my new to me ‘truck’ Which I promptly tinted the windows to make it less of a fish bowl: And immediately put it to…

  • Off Road Trips

    The Mighty Merc – 1st ORT Flat Nasty 12-31-16

    Well it nearly felt like this day would never come, but I finally broke my 1.5 year wheeling drought by getting out to wheel New Year’s Eve with some old friends. I also dragged along Grandpa and the Boy to share in the adventure. After waking up the kid early and picking up grandpa, we headed down to the park:

  • Hikes,  Missouri,  Trips

    Johnson’s Shut-ins 10/27/15

    We loaded up and headed down to Johnson Shut-ins to do some easy hiking with the boy and the recently discharged wife. This was our first trip in the ‘new-to-us’ adventure mobile (’08 Mazda5). We were fully expecting the thing to be a penalty box, but it is actually a hoot to drive and it pulls down great MPG’s driving dumb: