Haven't posted for a while: no internet at the house for a few weeks now. Hopefully fixed next week with new wireless broadband connection.
My two boys and I are going to Moab tomorrow morning for the 2 weeks of Spring break. We are pulling a trailer with the dirt bikes. We plan on camping on BLM at the trail heads, riding for 2 or 3 days, then go into town to resupply and go out again. We'll be there for 10 days or so. The bus is as good as it's ever been. I overhauled the Jakes this winter and tightened up misc. odds and ends.
From here,(S.E. BC), we'll drive down to Missoula, Mt, then East to Butte, Mt, then South on I-15, through S. L. C. and Moab.
We have been looking forward to this trip all winter. We are all exited! Wish us luck.
JC
I envy you. It's been ages since my kids grew up and got lives. I wish you luck and hope you enjoy the bus, the trip, the kids, and the rides...Cable
Good luck and play safe, Will
Hey JC, have a great time! We spent a couple of days in Moab on our way down to Yuma this fall. Very pretty place, we plan to come thru again on one of our migrations. :)
JC -
Have a good time, and enjoy the "spring" weather!
PS: Still looking for that steering wheel for you - haven't forgotten!
;)
JC, Have a great time! I took my family there last April for spring break. We were there during the jeep jamboree and had a blast. There are so many great places to go and see. We also camped on the BLM lands. What a great way to go!
Hi JC
We stayed there last year on our way home from our winter trip, had a great time. We are leaving on March 11 for our trip south to Apache Junction , a little later this year . Hope to see you at the BC Bus Nuts rally at Hat Creek Ranch in May, You to Ed H.
Gary
Gary, Hat Creek Ranch looks like a nice place for a rally from what i saw on the newsletter. There are several rallies we would like to attend this year but once again it is going to depend on where i am working this summer and what my schedule is like. :( We will be keeping our fingers crossed. :) Ed
enjoy the dirtbike action. As you swing by Missoula consider heading up to Mount Hogan (25 min drive). There is a great little restaurant (open on weekends only) called the sugar shack or something like that. There is also some great kiteskiing to be had... you can get a lesson if you havnt already tried. You would probably like those kind of sports...
Have a great trip
At a Flying J for a break (with WiFi) just N. of SLC. Bus is running awesome. In Moab tonight or tomorow morning. Thanks all for encouragement. Yes we are aiming for BC Busnut rally at Hat Creek. I'll post again next time we find a WiFi spot.
Take care everybody,
JC
Been here (Moab) for a couple days now. Camped at Sand Flats area on BLM primitive campsite 15 mn out of town. Not crowded at all, being a little early in the season. Great riding. Barely keeping up to the boys. They are really nice about waiting for Dad... Really great bus trip. It ran flawlessly all the way down, on the governor at 60 mph. No snow here (lots most of the way down though). Hope it runs as good for the way back next week.
Happy bussing to all,
JC
Nothing better than being "Lost Again"!!!
Why is it 'spring break' for the kids and 'spring broke' for the parents lol.
Or at our age it's "Mine's Broke"!!
Back home now. What a great time. Awesome terrain and scenery. Nice people everywhere. We stayed on the Sands Flats BLM area for 3 or 4 nights ($12/night),and did all the trails there except Porcupine Rim (too high with too much snow still). Then we moved up near Canyonlands Nat. Park to run the trails around Gemini Bridges. That's when we got that snow storm Sat. night. 4" the next morning. I was worried about getting the bus out of the camp ground with my summer tread tires, but it went really well. We did Arches N. P. that day in the rain. Perfect with the sky view windows. Stayed in town along the wall (100th S.) just off Main Street on 2 different nights. Nobody minds. Drove back in 2 days. Bus ran flawlessly, I am so happy with it... I'll try to post a few pics.
JC
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Sounds and looks like you guys had a great trip JC. I don't like that white stuff though! ;D
JC,
Looks like you guys had a great time. I noticed you guys had the Camel back water back packs. Those are great for rides. We used them when we rode in Nevada.
Bryan
Great pics JC! I'm glad everything went well for you, the bus sky windows are very cool!
Paul
Cool glad to hear all went great and y'all had a great time!
Two things I noticed though.
1; the one picture looks like one of my drivers parked the bus taking up 4 spaces with the bus and trailer angled across them ;)
2: Who's that babe sitting next to your son? (seriously I think an awesome adjustment to Marilyn's presence would be to lower her so that it appeared that she to was sitting on a stool at the end of the table/bar ;) fwiw)
;D BK ;D
looks like you had a great time JC, we are enjoying the sun in Apache Junction now. Hope to see you at Hat Creek ranch rally. We will be there
Gary
BK you don't miss a thing!
1: it was so quiet that week up there, you couldn't be picky about how to park.
2: it is a picture of my wife LOL. Or I could take a picture of a stool and put under her. Someone once suggested I paint a juke box on the fridge door... I still might do that some day.
The last night out, we had just pulled into the Pizza Hut parking lot in Dillon, Mt, when this older guys driving by rolls his window down and says: " Nice bus, that's a MCI Courier isn't it!" I said yes, and he drove away. He had a Montana license plate. It is not often that an American knows this bus, because in the 50s and early 60s, the GM 4104 ruled in the US, and MCI was pretty well unknown South of the border, until Greyhound started importing the MC 5 in the mid sixties.
By the way, we asked the people in the Pizza Hut if we could sleep in our bus in their parking lot and they said sure, you're welcome. We had a nice quiet night there. Nice people.
JC