Hitting the Road

Had to bail on my attempt on the Colorado Trail with achilles heal problems.  Click below to see some photos from t
he 170 miles I did do in only 7 days.  I was on pace for finishing the trail in 18 days.  You can check out some of
the  photos here COLORADO TRAIL PHOTOS.

Tomorrow I head down to Wyomissing to pick up Julie and do some last minute packing for our little road trip.  By little I mean 8,000 miles from the Atlantic to the Pacific and back hitting all the fun spots along the way.  Taking my fly rod, camera and laptop  so I'll be posting from wifi spots as I go.

Our ride is a Dodge Ram 2500 15 passenger van with the seats

cleared out for a single bed and all the fixings.  I'll take some pictures of that as well since I'm sure you're all jealous of our

luxorious sleeping arrangements.

Either way I can't wait to be on the road with my favorite girl, seeing some of the most beautiful places in America.  Oh, and look out, I may be getting a dog when I return.

[The flower photos above I edited to give them a painted effect.]

Colorado Trail - Pretrip

Finished sorting, packing and organizing all my gear for my 485 mile Colorado Trail trip.  I am going to be doing resupplies in Twin Lakes and Creede (photo below of the two resupply boxes).  Some final decisions of
the trip were whether to go shorts and tshirt with sunscreen or long pants and top without much spf.  I decided with the heat of late June and July to go with shorts (Patagonia Long Haul Runners) and short sleeve top (Smartwool SS zip).  Everything is pictured below except for some stuff sacks, pack liner, montrail hardrock shoes and toothbrush and sunscreen which i still need to pick up.

Some of my favorite items for this trip are the Platypus Sports bottle with red spout cap for my fuel (denatured alcohol), Patagonia Puffball jacket and Nanatuk Ghost down quilt.   

New items I am trying out are Sportslick (antifungal/antibacterial creme to prevent chaffing) and ULA's Conduit pack.  I have been using ULA's old P-2 pack which is larger with great success during the past year.