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May 23, 2005
The Vacation
Exhausting and expensive road trip in the Dodge aside, the portion of our trip from when Richard backed Mechano off the trailer until he loaded it up again was quite a ride. Given the trials I'm having with internet connectivity these last two months, I'm not posting a tonne of pictures, but for those interested, we can share and/or swap the high-res originals when we're next in Vancouver. I think these capture the day on Wrecking Ball… but I'd love to see the ones others took of me driving Clawhammer the day before… Just don't e-mail me any unless they've been reduced to 225 K or less and sent one at a time! So, here are a few highlights of Richard in (red) Mechano, Matt in (blue) Stubby Toy, Pam driving (yellow) Big Bird (with baby Danaeya asleep in the back), and Gary breaking in his grey Toy early in the day before his impressive finale (which I hope somebody caught on video!) |
Here at last are the vacation photos – the four-wheeling part, anyway. Unfortunately the pictures documenting our road trip to and from the annual rock-crawling trail run at the "Hammers", in the Mohave Desert in southeastern CA, involve more shots of malfunctioning brake components (ouch), and a damaged autobody shop sign (tragic) than they do touristy photos of our afternoon in San Francisco. We saw far too much of a certain parking lot in Fresno that I never want to see again. |
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And finally, the requisite cacti photo – Tristan found me this one in bloom as he was tracking lizards and scouting for snakeskins. This corner of the Mohave was very different than the high desert of Moab, but aside from the dusty, barren lakebed we camped on, it was just as full of life. I wish we'd had time to do a few more trails, because I don't think we'll be making another road trip to the Hammers any time soon. It's time to find rock-crawling like this closer to home!Posted by anita at May 23, 2005 8:15 AM