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  • Hikes,  Missouri,  Trips

    Hawn State Park Pickle Creek Hike 7/6/15

    January 18, 2017 /

    We snuck out to Hawn to do some hiking along Pickle Creek: The boy was a tad tired after all that hiking:

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

    January 11, 2017 /

    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:

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    The Mighty Merc – Sliding along the edge.

    December 28, 2016 /

    With the first wheeling trip looming in the near future, I knew that the stock running boards were not up to the task of sliding along the rocks. Well, I guess they would one time, but two times? Probably not so much.

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    Johnson’s Shut-ins 10/27/15

    December 19, 2016 /

    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:

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    The Mighty Merc – My how we’ve grown up!

    December 6, 2016 /

    It’s fun to take a look back to see how things progress. This was take just after the 31’s were put on: And here is where we sit today: It grew up just a tad…

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