shepp
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Thank you everyone for the kind words
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One last video I found away to Get real music on a video and get it uploaded to share https://nshep79.smugmug.com/Video/i-2hGPncL
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Made white chicken chili with smoked cream cheese and a whole smoked chicken, turned out really good!
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The ac was pretty nice too. But I still miss the days riding and every time I get out there on those curvy roads part of me wish’s I was on two wheels
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On the trail to Alstrom there were a group of guys on adventure bikes. I heard them ripping up the mountain as I changed my tire, I was alittle jealous.
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That’s an iPhone 12pro and a 15$ Walmart dash mount phone holder, it blew me away how stabile it came out
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Rim Rocker Trail at Paradox Valley CO I really wanted to use different music but everywhere I uploaded to dinged me on copy rights….
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I’d like to get to BC some day, I was as far west as banff when I was a teen. I need to talk to Canada about if they’ll let me In tho.
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Watched the sun rise while I packed up and started the two day journey home. I got to Breckinridge C0 about 8pm it was 34° I got on I 70 the first 4 lane in 6.5-7 days. 40-45 min later I got into Denver it was 64°. I stayed the night again in that little city RV park in brush and headed home @Cunuckgaucho theres a road runner in this photo, dead center! I had the wrong lens on my camera for that range he stopped in the road meep meeped and kept on going. My first roadrunner
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Torrey UT to Alstrom Point on Lake Powell NW of page Az. Took the hwy scenic byway which took my thru a lot of what I saw in 18’ but this time I went east to west. Passed thru the north end of Bryce Canyon national park and Dixie national forest. Then cut south east to lake Powell. I pulled into big water Ut which caters to tourism in lake Powell and was completely boarded up for the winter ended up having to pay 5.15/gal to top off before heading into the desert because the gas station only had premium left. I also was introduced to goat heads when I pulled over to piss cuz of course that was closed too. They were stuck in my shoes and tires?!?! Fuck those things! i headed into the desert and passed 3 passanger vans of people that really had no business being on the road. It was alot like getting to the Super Secret Shotting Spot in AZ but had many V shaped washes and you could see were 2wd vehicles had done burnouts trying to get thru them. Welp my bitching and thinking I was better bit me in the ass and the cosmos took me down a few notches and I cut a tire. FUCK! Ok settle down! You got all day suns not going down, you’re 3/4 the way there you can sleep here if you need to. slow is smooth, smooth is fast! gather up my tools (THANK GOD! I bought a rug for camping) put down my rug dropped the tire chalked my tires, truck comes pulling up. I shit you not it’s two Asian girls and a black cat in a Tacoma they ask me if I’m ok, the cat is looking at me like hey you’re my people! You good bro?!? I tell them I’m good I think. End up having to use both my new jack and the factory jack to get it high enough (after market was to tall with the flat). About this time a van full of guys speaking broken English flying the Arminian flag pull up. They too ask “you ok” I give them 👍🏼 they move on. I wonder about those guys I hope they didn’t get stuck cuz I have no freaking clue how they made it thru those washes. Get the tire changed and get out to Alstrom point and it’s worth every freaking bit of it. I watched one of the top three sunsets and sun rises ever. The stars were amazing, there was a meteor shower and I could see mars Jupiter and Uranus. It was so quiet up there
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Thank you Sisco, I learned shooting pictures of the moon is alot different than the stars but I got a couple good shots of the Big Dipper, I’ll post more about that in the next sequence of photos
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Torrey and Capital Reef national park So the pandemic showed the masses how great camping is. A lots of rented camper vans and RV’s navigated by idiots with no business driving a Prius let along a camper lol. Hit up a few places then decided to get away from the masses and found a gravel roads and a couple trails on the back side of the park. Ended up getting back in an area I passed thru in 18’ and was able to enjoy that area a little more, then ended the day in a place called sun set point
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I knew it could be replaced and done cheaply, I was happy it wasn’t the box or a fender. But being alone with my own mind the what ifs got ahold of me. I would have tried fixing it right there to ease my mind but I was afraid of making it worse in no man’s land, he’ll I passed thru Hanksville and Torrey and couldn’t even buy a damn hammer lol
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You were in my thoughts on my travels I talked to a native friend of mine this weekend about my travels when I got back. Everywhere I went I had ravens with me. To the point that I’d be like hey the ravens are back. One time there were like 3-4 and all but one flew off, the one that stayed let me get fairly close to take photos. When I was done I thanked him and he flew off. crows and ravens have always been one of my favorites but the interactions I had with them in my travels was spiritual in a way
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It really is amazing after day two I didn’t drive on an interstate hwy for about 6.5-7 days. When I drove from Moab to Torrey UT a five hour drive I went thru less than 5 towns! I took it slow this trip didn’t really have anywhere in particular to be expect a few camp ground reservations I made prior. I can do 15-16 hours. I’ve done 18, and I started to go loopy. There are many thru out Iowa this is the first one I think. It’s pretty moving for a rock out in the middle of a corn field! If you have Facebook their page is really cool other wise I’m sure he has a web site too. That’s really cool!!
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Fuck flying. I flew to Washington in July, I’d rather drive. Airports suck, people in airports suck and flying sucks lol.
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I’ll get the rest tomorrow night I’m waiting for a few videos to upload 🍻🍻
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Left Moab headed to Torrey UT, nice guys finish last. about a 1/4 of the way I took a detour up a mountain on the back side I met a truck and I backed up to let it thru. When I did I didn’t see a stump and smashed my bumper, which resulted in not being able to open my tail gate. The rest of the day I dwelled in that fact. When I got to the camp ground they had a large framing hammer and I was able to beat the bumper back into place and made the gate operational again
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Day 5 went to arches national park did some hiking, then fisher towers and corona arch
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Day 4 sleeping in bear country I was awoken freaking out cuz I thought I heard a grunt of a bear at 2 am, but making coffee It was affirmed it was black angus not black bear. Got into Moab mid after noon lots of first come first serve camp sites all full ( the pandemic taught the masses about camping 🤬) took me about two hours but I found a place on some blm land. Camp site ended up being out by Dead horse point state park one of the places on my places to see so I went and checked it out
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Day three was the start of the rim rocker trail in Montrose Co, 160 miles of gravel road from Montrose to Moab. I camped at buckeye reservoir which due to drought is now a cattle pasture. I was the only person there, I could see some hunters a mile or so away, but I was basically alone in the forest.
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Day 2 I headed across the Rockies west south west of co springs to Cimarron Co, got there mid afternoon. I had a big day ahead of me being it would be the last day I would see pavement for a few days so I relaxed, and planed me attack
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I left the 13th of October, no more sleeping on an air mattress, my buddy helped me build a bed rack for the back. took a 20 min longer route to bypass Illinois, no locking up guns, and I could travel with my suppressor. First stop is the freedom rock west of Des Moines it’s 5 min off I 80 and I stop every time to pay my respects. Pushed thru to a city rv park in brush CO to sleep
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I finally got to Moab, the weather was freaking perfect, no rain, no snow. Just sun dust and 80° days and 35° nights stick with me this is gonna be multiple posts of photos and videos
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When he’s at ocean pines
