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JK Sahara; Rockies Roadtrip

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Old Jul 28, 2008 | 07:34 AM
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Cool JK Sahara; Rockies Roadtrip

Youtube doesn't do justice to the photos and Windows doesn't do the smoothest edit job --- but you get a good idea.
7300 miles in 2 weeks; so many beautiful sights that my eyes are still sore from not blinking.
Crank it up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nr63wj1-jTw

Here are the lyrics to the last song; it's one of my closet favorites...

Originally Posted by C.W. McCall
Black Bear Road

Me an' RJ an' the kids was on a camp-out in the mountains, and we had us one'a them U-Drive-'Em Army Jeep cars which we rented from a fella by the name of Q. Bozke for thirty bucks a day, buy your gas along the way, take a rabbit's foot and leave a pint of blood for a dee-posit.

And he 'splained it all to us how we was supposed to get to Telluride, which is fifty miles away by way of the regular highway, however, there was a shortcut but unless we had drove the Black Bear Road before, we'd better be off to stay, stay in bed and sleep late. (Pay no attention to the git-tar there.)

Well, we took up off'n the highway and we come upon a sign says "Black Bear Road: You don't have to be crazy to drive this road, but it helps." I says, "RJ, this must the shortcut road Q. Bozke was talkin' about." She didn't pay no mind, 'cause she was makin' peanut butter sammiches for the kids in the back seat throwin' rocks and drinkin' Kool-Aid and playin' count-the-license-plates. But they wasn't havin' too much fun a-countin' license plate or cars, 'cause there weren't no other cars.

We went about a mile-and-a-half in about four hours, busted off the right front fender, tore a hole in the oil pan on a rock as big as the hall closet. Went over a bump and spilt the Kool-Aid and Roy Gene stuck his bolo knife right through the convertible top and the dog threw up all over the back seat. Peanut butter don't agree with him, you see.

So we had to stop and take off the top and air everything out and clean it up. The dog run off and RJ says she felt her asthma comin' on. I was sittin' there wonderin' what to do when the en-tire scenic San Joo-wan U-Drive-'Em Army Jeep car sank in the mud. At thirteen thousand feet above sea level.

Well, we shoveled it out and ate our lunch, the dog made a yellow hole in the snow and Roy Gene got out his Instamatic and took a snapshot of it. Mary Elizabeth drawed a picture of the road; it looked like a whole bunch a' Zs and Ws all strung together. And RJ took one look at it and said that the only way that Jeep car is goin' down that road is over her dead body. Then the rock slipped out from under the wheel and the U-Drive-'Em Army Jeep car went right over the edge of the cliff. Yahoo-oo-oo-oo!

"Doggone-it, Roy Gene! How many times do I have to 'splain it to you? When I tell you to put a rock under the wheel, I mean rock! Now look at that, what you have there is no bigger'n a grapefruit."
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Old Jul 28, 2008 | 07:40 PM
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great trip!!!
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Old Jul 28, 2008 | 08:06 PM
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Closet favorites?
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Old Jul 28, 2008 | 08:30 PM
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Thanks for sharing, I just went through some of the same places you've been and a similar Jeep too! (although I towed mine from point to point)

Great shots, beautiful country.
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Old Jul 29, 2008 | 01:24 AM
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Originally Posted by CIJeep
Closet favorites?
You know, music you listen to but rarely admit. Things that you turn up and sing to ---- but not in front of your buddies....
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Old Jul 29, 2008 | 03:56 AM
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Great pics, what was your itinerary?
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