It’s the last day. Our last breaths. Our last fight. To live …
Goodbye 2021!

It’s the last day. Our last breaths. Our last fight. To live …
Goodbye 2021!

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With stress comes a blank mind. So I will just create whatever makes me smile.

It is simple … leave the beaten path and go where most people don’t. Then you will be rewarded.

Lets just take a gander back to your 40th and remember the great friends and where we was 10 years ago. NOTE: this post leaked out early. Tomorrow is happy birthday Mo day 🙂
Outside it is dismal and it snows every day. Time for another depression pill. To look back and the good times all the while sitting here behind the bars of Montana.

Oh boy, the winter blues are really tightening their icy grip on us, aren’t they? The snow’s stacking up like there’s no tomorrow, and the sun’s decided to take a sabbatical. So, what’s the game plan to dodge this frosty funk? How about we plunge into a cozy wave of nostalgia with a good old-fashioned slideshow flashback? Feels like a hug from the inside, right?

Or, you know, from the Valley of Fire to Gooseberry Mesa in my reality. Bighorn sheep just casually strolling around like they own the place. Totally awesome sight, especially with the backdrop of the sunrise that seems to set the sky on fire. I’m out there, trying to sneak around for a peek, playing my own version of wildlife paparazzi, hoping to catch them in their natural, desert-y element. Our campsite? Smack dab in the heart of the Valley of Fire. Yep, we’re those van campers, soaking in every sunset, living that boundless freedom life. Honestly, you just can’t top it.

Some glimpses from a Gooseberry morning, captured in what I like to call a ‘slideshow thingy’—thanks to that GoPro software (or was it?). Anyway, just soak it in. Who has the time for lengthy explanations? Not me, that’s for sure.


2016: Now, there’s a tale that’ll have you rollin’ on the floor laughin’! Overpackin’ for a measly 35-miler like it was an expedition to the North Pole. Meanwhile, my pal Mo was light as a feather, zoomin’ past me and snaggin’ herself a podium finish. I tell ya, I’ve never heard the end of that one!
2012: Ah, the good ol’ days of soul-searchin’ and goal-settin’. Who’d have thought this old dog would one day be chasin’ after fat bikes and multi-day stage races? But I s’pose that’s just how the cookie crumbles, ain’t it? Gotta keep chuggin’ along, like that little engine that could.
2011: Hot diggity dog, now that was a race to remember! Hairpin turns, heart rates through the roof, and a loose handlebar throwin’ a wrench into the whole shebang. Talk about a nail-biter! I swear, I aged about ten years in that single race.
2010: Would you just look at that meadow? Prettier than a picture, I tell ya. Reminds me of that one time I was out hikin’ with my buddy Jimmy, and we darn near stumbled right into a moose’s backyard. Let’s just say we high-tailed it outta there faster than a jackrabbit on a hot tin roof!
2009: Ah, the joys of battlin’ the dreaded sniffles. It’s like a war zone up in here, with tissues flyin’ every which way and chaos reignin’ supreme. But hey, at least that AI-generated image of impending doom gave me a good chuckle. Gotta find the humor where you can, right?
2008: Speakin’ of good chuckles, how about that Marcy? Cutest darn thing this side of the Mississippi, I tell ya. Nothin’ beats a lazy day off from trainin’, just kickin’ back and hittin’ the trails with your favorite four-legged pal. ‘Course, that Lolo Pass Ride was looming on the horizon, so it was back to the grindstone soon enough.
2006: Now, here’s a doozy for ya! A good ol’ fashioned snowpocalypse, barrelin’ down on us like a freight train. But hey, at least we got to soak up some of that glorious sunshine while it lasted, right? And with friends comin’ to visit, well, that’s just the cherry on top of the sundae!
2006 (again): Ah, yes, the age-old conundrum of privacy versus accessibility. Gotta love those brain-scratchin’ ideas that really get the ol’ noggin churnin’. Course, knowin’ me, I probably got about three sentences in before my mind started wanderin’ off to more pressin’ matters… like what I was gonna have for lunch that day.

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