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9/18/11, Missouri Valley, IA - For those of you that wondered where I’ve been - I’m currently working at the nuclear plant in Nebraska.  I just overcame some problems I’ve had with the software I use to load this website - yeah.

Everything here is going great.  I’m in the planning stages for trip number 4. This will be a 4,000 - 6000 mile trip, in which we’ll travel north to Montana, starting in April of 2012. Then we’ll head west of the divide before turning south. By winter, I should be in the low deserts of the southwest. The following spring will see the wagon treking northward to Colorado. I currently plan on driving a 4-Up.

Here’s a blog I didn’t publish before I left La Garita.

8/27/11. La Garita Creek, CO - Life here at the Balloon Ranch continues to be great, but it’s due for an interruption. Next weekend, I’m heading back to Nebraska to work at the same nuclear plant as last spring. No, I’m not going back to fix all the things I broke.  They’ve been waiting all summer for the flood waters on the Missouri River to recede before they can start back up.  I imagine they need people to do maintenance and shovel a lot of mud!

Next April, I plan on hitching up the lads to a refurbished wagon and taking them out for a little one year spin around the west.

In order to improve the quality of my photos and to start taking some motion pictures, I bought a new camera.  Sandy and I went for a ride today and I gave it a try (I still haven’t mastered the video).

I took this shot of the buck antelope near the town of La Garita.  I managed to walk within about 75 feet before he ran through the fence. Antelope are very poor jumpers so they usually go through or under fences.  This guy scooted between the wire mesh on the bottom and the barb wire on the top.