Wandering and Wondering - My little road trip.

...that's just flat out awesome

 

Had a late start this morning, and combine that with the vastness of Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons, I narrowly made it to Laramie awake and alive.

Day started out pretty rough with my Sony camera dying. What can I say, I got it in 2007 and it's been to pretty much every country outside of Iraq, and it's been thrown around and bashed and dropped, and always kept going, until now. So I took a bunch of cell phone pics that I'll try to figure out how to upload as something other than the attachments.

Driving through Wyoming itself is pretty amazing and diverse and the colors are absolutely mind-boggling. The only thing more mind-boggling is the Fat Boy statue in the middle of the Wapiti Indian Reservation......

 

That's awesome

 

This trip is pretty cool.

Send them to TW live.
http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/off-topic-discussion/38939-tw-live.html

 

I had to turn around and take a picture. I have the other go pro pics that I took and I'll try to get some of the smaller videos uploaded tonight, but tomorrow I am meeting up with a few of the guys here in Laramie for some offroading, so if they aren't done tonight, it'll be a few days.

 

Thanks Kase! I will wait until the trip is over to decide on a sig pic haha. There are some serious contenders.

 

The 25th is gonna be a stretch... I have about 9xxx miles left and various things I have to do in at least 9 of the states I have on my list...............

I am so glad I caved and bought a new camera when I rolled into Laramie. This TWLive, while handy is slow, and having a slow internet connection doesn't help.

 

I've kinda wanted to do a trip like this. Just go. Wherever you feel like. All sorts of offroad parks, destinations across the states. I'll have to do it someday.

 

This is my second one, and I unfortunately didn't document the other one nearly as well. I still have the pics, maybe I'll add them at the end when I'm back home. That, and I have to start planning my Denali trip - that's how I'm going to celebrate visiting all 50 states, with Alaska being the last....

It is nice, the only things I would change is being able to spend more time in a few places and having someone with me to co-pilot.

 

Alaska is awesome, I'd go back in a instant if i could.

 

I can't wait. It was actually a destination on this road trip, but I started too late in the year, and I don't want to risk getting snowed in or something else either crazy or worse happening.

I already have base plans for it, I just haven't put them on paper yet. Gotta focus on this one first. Abe Lincoln once said "Never switch horses in the middle of crossing a river" (of course I'm paraphrasing because whiskey, but you get the idea). I'm worried that if I start thinking about it too much, I might say FukiT and go....

 

AAaaaaaaaaaaalrighty then, picture time. Please keep in ming the fish-eyed lens on my gopro, and the fact that it's mounted on my windshield.

I'll try to get them in order....

Let's start with Deadwood, SD:






Then to Devil's Tower (so far all cell phone pics that I hadn't uploaded yet):



Now moving to Big Horn...





Now to Shoshone Park, at night, hunting Chupacabra:


Now Shoshone/Buffalo Bill Parks in the day.









And then into Jellystone... er... Yellowstone...



Going into Sylvan Pass.









Lake Butte Overview



Lake Yellowstone



Gull Point Dr.







Waiting for Old Faithful to blow.









Old Faithful is in the middle.



Boom, that's what's up. Except that it's so cold, you can't see the geyser through the steam.



Kepler Cascades, the steepest vertical drop in the park. And it is STEEP.







Grand Teton National Park











cruising around the park





and just like that, we're back into the stereotypical western tan...



or are we???? just when you settle in for a long ride, you hit the Painted Hills in Dubois.



(insert video here)

THEN do you get the dun.



Talk about some bad ass mpgs though!!!



Nice hills near Jeffries (?)



and the sky gets nicer:



and nicer still!!



BAM! Vanilla Sky!



That's it for now, until I get better internet and un-lazy to edit/compress the videos. Tomorrow should be a fun and long day with lots of pics, then onto Colorado!!

 

when you get near WA/OR give our local threads a shout. Im sure you will enjoy some of what we offer

 

Im aiming to be in seattle this weekend. My buddies have a microbrew in salem and theyre having a tasting on friday that I may or may not have rsvpd to

 

Pic of jeff stuck but none of you?



Im eating and will be working on uploading mine shortly

 

I spy duratrac tread in this last picture?
...and he's stuck

 

Stuck is a mild term for it. That snow was hip deep or so.

 

So this is my buddy who lives in Colorado Springs. I didn't know he had a blog thingy:
http://revolutionexpedition.wordpress.com/2013/10/20/why-i-am-doing-what-i-am-doing/