Easy as pie.

It's amazing how fast things dry out here in Utah. Went back to get the Jeep today (yeah, couldn't get it out yesterday - too muddy) and we decided to hike out to it to see if the Armada would make it. We get there and my little brother says "You got the keys?" He suggests we try it before heading to get all the equipment*. I hand him the keys and tell him to go for it, expecting it to go nowhere. He puts it into 4-lo, rocks it about 3 times and it comes right out of the holes. It was like pudding yesterday and after only 14 rain-free hours it was solid. Go figure.

*Figuring we'd be fighting to get it out, we brought:
- 2 hi-boy jacks
- tow chain
- come-along
- winch
- 6 bags of lava rocks to put under the tires
- 3 2x6s and 4 2x4s of varying length
- a big, flat rock
- gloves and spare shoes.
We could have walked out in shorts and flip-flops and got it out.

My new mantra.

“No more dirt roads in the rain.”

That’s what I said to myself for the hour or so I was waiting for my little brother to help me out of this mess.  that and “stoopid” about a million times.

Pictures from Day 1, 2 & 3

I got the photo gallery for the first leg of my trip alltoghether, if you want to check them out, click here. I'll get the second set as soon as possible. I was wasting a bunch of time messing around with re doing my website (http://www.srossi.net/), and decided it wasn't working too well. I was trying to mesh the new with the old, and it just wasn't looking very cohesive. "So, I'm gonna drop back 5 and punt. I've figured out how to keep everything on the old site intact, in the background, and start from scratch with the site. You won't see any changes until I have it already to launch.

2 hours later : just got done adding captions to the photo gallery. Hopefully that will make the pictures more interesting, knowing what they're all about.

If you've ever driven the Shafer trail you'll get this...

If you haven't, then click on the picture in the previous post. It'll send you to some pictures of the drive down the trail. Entire story to come later.....
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