Anyone want to see our wedding photos?

[RiverRat]

Sorry, this has nothing to do with FSJs but I wanted to post here since our honeymoon was the Ouray invasion... we had an outdoor wedding in the Mark Twain National Forest (Missouri) so we kept it real . We even signed the marriage license at our campsite, as you can tell by the lovely photos. That's our minister in the hat and MASH shirt . He is another story.... I hope we can make it to next year's invasion, like I said I had a great time in '06.

http://photos.yahoo.com/bethann375

[HOOT]

Your gonna get locked down now..

Come on, You didn't even bring your FSJ to Ouray..
Come to think of it neither did I. But at least I tried.

[RiverRat]

I know there is the boa of shame... maybe there should be an award for whoever goes through the most to get to the invasion! Hoot, you already win for distance anyway, I think. Maybe we can retroactively award it next year, any thoughts?? Again, glad nobody got hurt! (edit): Maybe we will bring our wag next year, if anybody will volunteer to come and tow us through BFE Kansas where we are bound to break down on the way? It will be restored one day though!!! Right now it looks like a sorry version of Flint's Wag .

[kennyh]

Originally Posted by RiverRat

I know there is the boa of shame... maybe there should be an award for whoever goes through the most to get to the invasion! Hoot, you already win for distance anyway, I think. Maybe we can retroactively award it next year, any thoughts?? Again, glad nobody got hurt! (edit): Maybe we will bring our wag next year, if anybody will volunteer to come and tow us through BFE Kansas where we are bound to break down on the way? It will be restored one day though!!! Right now it looks like a sorry version of Flint's Wag .

That bad? I though Flint's WAS the sorry version...heh, heh. Hey, Flint has a great sense of humor, right? He won't get hurt by my rapier wit, surely. Certainly marriage to the Jeepstress has tempered him into a fine, durable specimen of a man. Okay, I'm signing off now.

[BRUTUS]

Great pictures! Congrats again. Hope to see you guys in the wag next year.

Maybe the way to do it is if HOOT comes out again... take your driveshafts off the wag and get one of those car-dollies to tow the wag to Ouray. Of course then you probably will have to get towed to Montana for the hill climb and then back to Missouri... Come to think of it, maybe that isn't a good idea.

[Jeepstress]

Originally Posted by kennyh

Certainly marriage to the Jeepstress has tempered him into a fine, durable specimen of a man.

Jealous, much?? Sorry boys, there's only one of me to go around. At least I let my husband keep his own teeth, Ken. And I gave him one of my 401s (and only because I love him and not for services rendered - QT services, that is). When did your wife last do that? Hhhhmmm???

[turtlejoe]

Congratulations and many good wishes, and thanks for sharing the pic's!

[fulsizjeep]

BethAnn - that is a fine set of pictures you have there. I thought it was awesome that y'all would join the likes of us in your honeymoon!

Kenny - Yeah man, I got a great sense of humor because your Waggy has a fine Egg Crate Grill on it Dude...

The only wedding picture we have is really not from our wedding, but the first trip we made over Imogene in 2000. It works for us though!



Between Hoot in KY, the Benetts in NE and some of the front ranger FSJers in CO, I bet you could get that Wag to Ouray!

[HOOT]

I'll have to get a bigger trailer. . I think the trailer will be loaded with Retro's Jeep. That is if we can convince him of his need to be present next year. He knows he wants to bad already. Besides it will be one more lump of crap for him to throw at CrazyJeepman at random.
There just might be a baby jeep tagging along as well.He is flying and renting a jeep this fall. That'll be enough to get his already finished Wrangler out there.

As mentioned earlier, there will be a detour to Montana again. Thanks to the Billings Motorcycle Club I had an absolute blast in the 106 degree heat. Camping on the Yellowstone River. That's where I would really like to see a weekend Jeep meet at. Bear Tooth Pass was incredible.Chief Joseph Highway was stunning. Lots of waggies in the area as well. Bear Tooth is also voted as one of the top 10 roads in USA.
No one tried to toss me off a 14,000 ft. mountain either.
I have a strong urge to do Glacier Park as well. And when I get these urges no amount of head banging will dislodge it. Watching Montana disappear in my rear view mirror was worst time I had this trip.
Sorry for hijacking here but **** it that's just how I am.

[RiverRat]

Actually, we will be in Glacier the week of July 1-7 and were hoping to swing down to CO the next week (hopefully for the invasion?), head home on the 14th. This is all tentative for now... not sure if a move is in the works for us soon or not.

[fulsizjeep]

OMG, am I seeing a Montana thing brewing up here? We would so like to tour Montana. At the very least Glacier. I know the IT folks there. Could get some pointers from them on the best spots to see and camp. I bet 4th of July is pretty busy there though. Worth a look... I am following your thought process here Tom!

BethAnn - y'all have any reservations there yet?

There is also the Alcan highway some day too...

[kennyh]

Originally Posted by Jeepstress

And I gave him one of my 401s (and only because I love him and not for services rendered - QT services, that is). When did your wife last do that? Hhhhmmm???

Uh, well, she just...er...no, OH! Once she...er...no, not then either. Actually I have to hold out to get paid for services rendered. Her tranny in the Grand Cherokee is about due for a rebuild. I oughta have a good month or so after that.

'Course, when I think it oughta be good for a month of favors, it turns out to be only a week or two. "Inflation," she says. Women.

[HOOT]

My trip to Montana will be timed with the Motorcycle Hillclimb. From what I understand they have the Race the weekend before, the week before the Sturgis Bike Ralley. Sturgis is the first full week in August. That made the Race held on July 28 - 30 this year. That worked out great for a stage 2 from Ouray this year.


The Alcan Highway sounds like a blast as well. My buddy did it and he is the one that got me hooked on traveling out west. He did the Northwest(hunting) though as where I done the Southwest(better bike weather) beause of the motorcycles we always took along. Yellowstone was my first trip out and that was in 1988.The next trip out was to the southwest in 1989 and that is where I played until the late 90's. I had alot of weekend trips in the Northwest when I was in the area for work.

[kennyh]

Originally Posted by fulsizjeep

OMG, am I seeing a Montana thing brewing up here? We would so like to tour Montana. At the very least Glacier. I know the IT folks there. Could get some pointers from them on the best spots to see and camp. I bet 4th of July is pretty busy there though. Worth a look... I am following your thought process here Tom!

BethAnn - y'all have any reservations there yet?

There is also the Alcan highway some day too...

Hey, you guys know that number of vapor lock occurences increase as the square of the distance from the equator, right? Anchorage is 3000 miles from here. Let's see, at 15 mpg (on a good day) that would be 200 gallons, and at $3/gal that's only 600 bucks. That's a pretty cheap vacation. Oh, but I forgot about the u-joint replacement on the way, and the worn out wheel bearing and cracked exhaust manifold, but how much can those parts be? Well, in the middle of the tundra they may run a bit more. And I've heard that the mosquitoes up there can just carry you off and suck you dry.

How 'bout we ferry 'em up there and drive around Alaska?

I did Montana last week with a bunch of guys on motorcycles but we didn't want to do the three 500-mile days required to get to Glacier and back home, so we just toured around Yellowstone on the Idaho side, then to Bozeman, down to Bear Lake State Park (neat place, and there's sure a lot of Mormons out there.)

I won't be going to Alaska with the FSJ. Might do it on a bike someday.

[RiverRat]

I'm sure Glacier is busy around the 4th of July, but we have a wedding to attend in the park on the 7th (Saturday), figured we'd bum around during the week before and check it all out. Apparently our friend has reserved some cabins somewhere, but we were going to check out the camping situation... I'm too cheap to pay for a week in a cabin if I can help it, I'm sure they're on the expensive side up there. But I've heard tent camping is limited because of the bears? I haven't been there for about 20 years so I don't remember much. Which one is the Alcan highway again? Bryan wants to do the one that goes to the Arctic ocean someday

[SVO42]

Yep, I do. Drive all the way to Fairbanks on the Alaska Highway, and then the Dalton Highway all the way up to the Arctic Ocean! You have to work things out in advance with BP because of the oil field security issues, I hear.

I meant to post earlier, but I've been kinda busy. Anyway, believe it or not, I do have a Wag, and here it is, right after BethAnn drove it into a mudhole:



Here's the aftermath:




I married her anyway!

If it had a new engine and tranny it might make it. On a more positive note, I picked up a set of used 33s for the Exploder today for $40.

[kennyh]

Oh my. A little wet & stinky. Nice price for the 33s. I tried to score some used tires for my Wag ($100 for the set) on craigslist.com but they were already gone, dang it.

[RiverRat]

Originally Posted by kennyh

Oh my. A little wet & stinky.

That was the foulest water I have ever smelled . No, it wasn't intentional, we didn't know the park and it looked completely innocent before I drove into it! Funny thing is, that was our first real wheelin' trip and we've been hooked ever since. I sucked up 2 tankloads of mud with the rugdoctor we rented when we got home... took over a month to dry completely and months longer before the stench went away. Gotta love the shag carpet... the Exploder has a rubber floor! Haven't taken it swimming yet though.