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Day 28: Star Valley, NV to Alvord Desert, Utah Where we boondock camped on Pike Creek. Camping was hard to find around here and we ended up at a pretty nice free spot. It was NF land but took a local to show us where to camp. The gas station in Fields is awesome - famous for their shakes...

Day 28: Star Valley, NV to Alvord Desert, Utah Alvord Desert around late in the day. Alvord with the Eastern side of the now far-away Trout Creek mountains in the background. And here with the near Steen mountains. We'd try to find camping somewhere on the eastern side of the...

Mahogany Ridge is long windswept and rough. We were following moto tire tracks and I could only imagne how fast they were moving through this trail as we less-than-idled along. Our one year-old navigating us through the Alvord Desert.

Day 28: Star Valley, NV to Alvord Desert, Utah We followed the Quinn for a while with some fun crossings but it constricted and the road left the river for the hills above the river. It wasn't long before we were down in McDermitt. There wasn't much in McDermitt but there was a gas and...

Day 28: Star Valley, NV to Alvord Desert, Utah Out of the desert and down into the Quinn River valley not far from McDermitt. the trail was narrow and sandy with deep ruts so that we had to try to run with the wheels on the sides of the ruts without falling in. The thing was that if...

Felicidades! You have your truck and you're on the move. Happy travels and we'll be watching eagerly. -jesse By the way, my Landy is much more uncooperative than my cruiser (though it is thirty years older!).

Thanks for the compliments. You should definitely run the Ozark traverse. It was one of our favorite parts of the trip and I was talking with some folks today about going back and riding motos through the forest. As I said, I had lots of great help/advice from Mr. Leary here on ExPo. He's also...

Well, they made it but it wasn't always pretty. To that end, we actually left one third-row jumpseat in and sat one of the older ones back there. Having my 6 year-old son and 4 year-old sleep next to each other every night was sometimes awful. I kept telling them there was an imaginary wall...

Day 28: cont. Dropping down into Star Valley Ranch The plains leading to Quinn River. Some of the roads were fast, some slow. It was still very dusty.

Haven't tried the tablet approach yet and I'm interested but I needed something more durable. I bought a Garmin 60Cs for dualsport and our offroad trip across the country this past summer. It worked great for that and works on the bike. I got it from Fleabay for $150. I'm a cheapskate and all...

Day 28: cont. At the bottom of the narrow trail into Star Valley was an unlocked gate but it had three signs on it saying no trespassing. With no other option and a bit nervous as we had seen what looked to be a ranch in the valley we continued on down the road. There was no way around the...

Day 28: Star Valley, NV to Alvord Desert, Utah Part 1: Star Valley to McDermitt Part 2: Mcdermitt to Alvord Desert (Fields), Utah We woke up and continued along this fence line. It was marked as a road in the GPS and on the Benchmark but in reality it was just a faint service road...

Day 27: Jarbridge to the middle of nowhere (west of Owyhee) Coming off of a morning of not having any idea of where we were and the first moment of the trip where I felt foolishly unprepared, I was quite surprised to play the fool again. Lost above the canyon crossing we traversed one two...

Foy, I went back and looked at the maps and sure enough, I found Charleston Reservoir. Whatever we turned at was much smaller in comparison, probably just a water hole for cattle. Thanks for the info and I'm glad to have finally seen if only on maps. In the end I'm glad we missed 746 and took...

Day 27: Jarbridge to the middle of nowhere (west of Owyhee) We knew the Owyhee was somewhere in this valley. The GPS didn't point to its exact location for some reason and after we descended some steep troughs I became really confident. There was only a slight bit of mud in the bottom of...

Day 27: Jarbridge to the middle of nowhere (west of Owyhee) We made it out of the forest and down into Owyhee. Had to ask for gas in Owyhee as the only gas was three miles north of town. We drove all through the town (didn't take long) and I started to ******t myself because there was no gas...

Day 27: Jarbridge to the middle of nowhere (west of Owyhee) Tennessee Gulch didn't really remind us much of home but it was pretty all the same. We crossed the Whitehorse high desert area on some fast gravel road that narrowed but the line of sight was long and we were able to...

Day 27: Jarbridge to the middle of nowhere (west of Owyhee) At one point we had to do a mandatory short reroute where the road had washed out. We backtracked and went up and over a finger of hill and dropped back to the river which we had decided must be a fork of the Bruneau. The track...

Day 27: Jarbridge to the middle of nowhere (west of Owyhee) First real obstacle other than tight atv trail was around this bend. There had been a slide and the rocks covered the trail. Others had been over it but it was slow going and loose. No pictures for some reason. This...

Day 27: Jarbridge to the middle of nowhere (west of Owyhee) Climbed out of one valley and eventually dropped down into another. No troubles through, just beautiful narrow rough track. We were worried about the new stripes we were putting on this 4,000 mile-old Jeep. Yep, that's...