So this past Monday (a week ago today), Shad, Mark, Jason, and myself took the morning off for a four-wheeling trip up into the mountains west of Fort Collins. We went up this old forest road just a little east of Crystal Mountain, which led us to an old quarry. I think it might have been for getting some sort of mineral, cause all the rocks were speckled with chunks of what looked somewhat like silver. Anyways, we had a blast there trying out all of the vehicles to see what they could do (Mark had his Toyota pickup, Shad his Land Cruiser, and Jason his Uni-Mog). All of the vehicles did far more than I thought they could, but the best was easily the Mog. It was amazing to watch Jason take it over just about anything and everything there. The only limiting factor of the Mog was how top heavy it was.

So it’s been a long time since I have posted. I will try and use the somewhat lame excuse that throughout the school year, I really didn’t have much spare time. However, if truth be told, I really just chose to spend my time on more interesting activities. That having been said, summer is here, and while I still have more interesting things I could be doing, they all require a lot of work, and I am feeling somewhat lazy this afternoon. As a result, I am going to treat my faithful readers to an update on the highlight’s of my past two weekends.

Last weekend being Memorial Day weekend, I decided it would be a good time to get a new guitar. My old one was wearing out, and not worth the money it would cost to repair it. Therefore, I spent Saturday down in Denver checking out the three local Guitar Centers. After deciding on my two favorite guitars, I went back to Fort Collins to relax on Sunday. Then, bright and early Monday morning I went down to the best of the Guitar Centers to take advantage of their super Memorial Day sale. Having noticed that neither of the guitars I had picked out were on that much of a sale, and that neither were quite as cool as I had remembered them, I started playing several other guitars. About an hour and a half later, I walked out of there the proud owner of a new faded Gibson Flying-V. Since then, almost all of my free time has been spent playing it, and it has proven to be totally awesome.

After getting home later that morning, I took of for Vedauwoo Wyoming with my bike strapped to the back of my car. I had forgotten how beautiful that area of Wyoming is. It was a really fun ride, especially given all of the slick rock there is to ride there. There is nothing like flying down a hill on slick rock, not being able to stop cause every bump sends you flying, but not being able to go full out cause you know there is a pretty sharp curve at the bottom, followed by a steep incline you need a lo of momentum for. Riding there was definitely a blast.

Well, a week went by at work (admittedly a short week). In the middle of that week, my new computer came, which was really sweet. Then on Saturday, after spending some more time setting up stuff on the computer, I took off to railfan the Moffett Road (the former D&RGW line west of Denver). I started at a place where the train does a loop almost passing over its self, as seen in the photo below. That is one train, with a helper engine at the end pushing it up the hill. I went on to chase the train into the mountains. I was able to catch it again at this sweet spot in the middle of the mountains. It required a little scrambling to get to this place, but it was definitely worth it. I only wish I had been there earlier in the afternoon. Anyways, it was a totally awesome day of railfanning. Well, that is all for now folks. Tune in next time to here Andrew say: …. “Bother blogging. It is boring and pointless, and it wastes time when I could be biking or playing the guitar. I quit.”