scarysharkface
Explorer
I'll keep working on Tracy... I seriously think we'll do that next year. Maybe the Cartwright bypass will be complete by then...
John
IN to UT, AZ, CO in a stock JK Unlimited
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I'll keep working on Tracy... I seriously think we'll do that next year. Maybe the Cartwright bypass will be complete by then...
John
scarysharkface
Explorer
It seems that most of them do, and for a family of 4 it's a good deal imho. Inside is just a full bed and a twin bunk (with mattresses), and you bring your own bedding.. Small, but it locks when you're away for the day..
Cramped, but we brought a lot of stuff..
John
skibum69
New member
that would be fun, I'm looking forward to that too. I know you like shots of where your feet have been, or are. Here's one from my recent whereabouts
scarysharkface
Explorer
that would be fun, I'm looking forward to that too. I know you like shots of where your feet have been, or are. Here's one from my recent whereabouts
Cell phone tower? Nice boots!
Still doing windmills?John
Funrover
Expedition Leader
Fantastic! I love Mesa Verde.. I need to get my wife down there! Are you guys still around Pueblo area? If you are I would really recomend Bishop Castle. It is a great place to visit! I would like to shake all of your hands for this great trip, but I know you are having too much fun!
scarysharkface
Explorer
Thanks for the kind words!
Taking a trip like this with children is both very gratifying and terribly exhausting.
I can do a decent job of keeping myself happy without expending a whole lot of effort, pretty much just doing what I want to do when I want to do it. I find I'm very easy to live with, from my perspective of course.
The trick, as anybody with a personal relationship with any other human being can attest, is to find those compromises that come easily and don't really require any terrible sacrifice on anyones' part.
Throw more people into that equation and the success rate plummets dramatically most of the time.
Start mixing genders and ages and things fall apart in rather impressive fashion and usually at great speed.
Our challenges were:
Me - wants to drive Jeep all day on trails, hike trails, climb rocks, flirt with Tracy
Tracy - wants to ride horses, hike trails, climb rocks, eat, enjoy meaningful family time
Sarah - wants to read books, listen to music, climb rocks, ride horses, eat, hike trails
Colin - wants to drive Jeep all day on trails, eat, climb rocks, flirt with girls, listen to music, hike on trails, ride horses, annoy Sarah
As you can see, I don't put a premium on regular meals, although everyone else does. Colin (almost 12 years old) wants to drive the Jeep AND wants to jump off the North Rim at Toroweep (all of this while eating - he's a growing boy). Many of our interests appear to overlap nicely. Some do, but often the timing doesn't. Add a quart of teen angst and a liter of pre-teen angst and make those two sit within arms' reach of each other and sometimes it all just pretty much goes straight to hell.. quickly.. And then one of us blinks (or an antelope crosses the road) and everybody is in the moment and we're making memories of a lifetime.. Just like *that* it changed, and at some unexpected point will change again to something completely unexpected (or not, which is another way they mess with your head, but I digress..).
It's a great trip to take, and I highly recommend it. It will be wonderful and the best trip you'll ever take. It will be awful and you'll never want to do it again. It will be over at some point, and then you can start remembering the good and forgetting about the bad. It can't help but enrich their lives to experience the world in this manner with people who will take the time to share stories about what went before, why it is the way it is now and what might come of it all in the future.
We've been home for a couple of weeks now, and it is difficult for me to accept that that particular adventure has too-quickly passed..
John
Taking a trip like this with children is both very gratifying and terribly exhausting.
I can do a decent job of keeping myself happy without expending a whole lot of effort, pretty much just doing what I want to do when I want to do it. I find I'm very easy to live with, from my perspective of course.
The trick, as anybody with a personal relationship with any other human being can attest, is to find those compromises that come easily and don't really require any terrible sacrifice on anyones' part.
Throw more people into that equation and the success rate plummets dramatically most of the time.
Start mixing genders and ages and things fall apart in rather impressive fashion and usually at great speed.
Our challenges were:
Me - wants to drive Jeep all day on trails, hike trails, climb rocks, flirt with Tracy
Tracy - wants to ride horses, hike trails, climb rocks, eat, enjoy meaningful family time
Sarah - wants to read books, listen to music, climb rocks, ride horses, eat, hike trails
Colin - wants to drive Jeep all day on trails, eat, climb rocks, flirt with girls, listen to music, hike on trails, ride horses, annoy Sarah
As you can see, I don't put a premium on regular meals, although everyone else does. Colin (almost 12 years old) wants to drive the Jeep AND wants to jump off the North Rim at Toroweep (all of this while eating - he's a growing boy). Many of our interests appear to overlap nicely. Some do, but often the timing doesn't. Add a quart of teen angst and a liter of pre-teen angst and make those two sit within arms' reach of each other and sometimes it all just pretty much goes straight to hell.. quickly.. And then one of us blinks (or an antelope crosses the road) and everybody is in the moment and we're making memories of a lifetime.. Just like *that* it changed, and at some unexpected point will change again to something completely unexpected (or not, which is another way they mess with your head, but I digress..).
It's a great trip to take, and I highly recommend it. It will be wonderful and the best trip you'll ever take. It will be awful and you'll never want to do it again. It will be over at some point, and then you can start remembering the good and forgetting about the bad. It can't help but enrich their lives to experience the world in this manner with people who will take the time to share stories about what went before, why it is the way it is now and what might come of it all in the future.
We've been home for a couple of weeks now, and it is difficult for me to accept that that particular adventure has too-quickly passed..
John
Box Rocket
Well-known member
^ wonderfully said.
So I'll start by saying I have (more quickly than I would have liked) wasted my entire work day up to this point reading the entire thread and looking at the fantastic photos. As a "hobbiest" photographer I'm very impressed with the images. What a great trip report, thank you for sharing in such great detail.
More importantly for me, however, is to say thanks for reminding me what I'm able to enjoy so easily, yet don't in the way I should. Living in Utah and having relatively easy access to these places you visited is something I have clearly taken for granted. I've been to many of those places (several times in fact), but I've allowed them to become "commonplace". Most definitely they are not and after reading through your report I've HIGHLY motivated to go see many of them again (with my wife and 4 kids in tow) and enjoy them with fresh eyes again. Thanks for that reminder.
So I'll start by saying I have (more quickly than I would have liked) wasted my entire work day up to this point reading the entire thread and looking at the fantastic photos. As a "hobbiest" photographer I'm very impressed with the images. What a great trip report, thank you for sharing in such great detail.
More importantly for me, however, is to say thanks for reminding me what I'm able to enjoy so easily, yet don't in the way I should. Living in Utah and having relatively easy access to these places you visited is something I have clearly taken for granted. I've been to many of those places (several times in fact), but I've allowed them to become "commonplace". Most definitely they are not and after reading through your report I've HIGHLY motivated to go see many of them again (with my wife and 4 kids in tow) and enjoy them with fresh eyes again. Thanks for that reminder.
Box Rocket
Well-known member
Oh yeah, and I wanted to also recongize the excellent music references. As a *huge* RUSH fan and also a big YES fan as well, I must say you have great taste. :victory:
scarysharkface
Explorer
I would have liked to get some Cinema pics of the Heart of the Sunrise, but I failed to Awaken in time to Lift Me Up and pretend I Am A Camera. In Future Times (I'll) Rejoice when my Mood For A Day Parallels The South Side Of The Sky and I look Into The Lens and see the Magnification of The Ancient Topographic Oceans and I'll Release, Release the shutter not Soon enough... Nous Sommes du Soleil.. But I digress...
:ylsmoke:
John
Box Rocket
Well-known member
:bowdown:
scarysharkface
Explorer
:sombrero:
Looking at your trailer test-run thread, I see a man in a white car, move like a ghost on the skyline... :smiley_drive:
Tracy and I were admiring your pics. Nice tone and just, well, gorgeous beautiful stuff..
John
skibum69
New member
Hey John, yup, radio towers, just like the one in your back yard, we're doing antenna upgrades for one of the big cell providers.
I haven't done any turbine work in over a year, been too busy offshore at home etc. Supposed to be hot and sunny today with a UV index of 8 so I think even I will wear sunscreen.
Those boots are the only style so far that will accommodate my orthotics. Practising my photography skills:sombrero:
I haven't done any turbine work in over a year, been too busy offshore at home etc. Supposed to be hot and sunny today with a UV index of 8 so I think even I will wear sunscreen.
Those boots are the only style so far that will accommodate my orthotics. Practising my photography skills:sombrero:
scarysharkface
Explorer
Do you have another one of these in the works?
http://www.ridetherock.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2507
John