Jenn & Romy

We made it up to the Sheephorn Lookout in the Salmon-Challis National Forest in Idaho.

Jenn, Romy, & Nicole

We made it to the Peel Tree A-Frame Cabin which you can rent from the Salmon-Challis national Forest in Idaho.

Marcel, Nicole, Romy, & Jenn

We went down in Beauty Cave in Craters of the Moon National Monument. It had ice inside, which stays there year round. The Shoshone native americans used it to store meat. Outside on the lava flow field it was about 100 degrees, but down in the cave it was 32! We had to have flashlights to go inside.

Nicole & Jenn

At the campfire. The spot we found already had a bunch of wood!

Marcel & Romy

Camping in the Caribou National Forest near a stream close to Lava Hot Springs, ID.

Nicole and Marcel

Stopping in Red Canyon to fix the air filter attachment on Jenn and Romy's baja.

Jenn & Romy

We are at the Flaming Gorge National Rec Area in northeast Utah. We washed our hair that day under a water spigot in the campground.

Jenn, Romy, Nicole, & Marcel

We made it to the yurt and are spending our second night! The first night, all of us barely made it before midnight, and both the bajas didn't have enough power to make it up the steep dirt road to the yurt, so we parked them about one mile down the mountain and had to hike up! On the second night, we unloaded N&M's dashwood and floored it up the mountainside. It made it and we are celebrating!

Nicole and Marcel

Inside the Red Canyon Visitor Center by the Flaming Gorge. We will meet up with Jenn and Romy late tonight at the Yurt.

Jenn

I am driving the baja through Nevada. It is getting hot outside!

Romy

We just woke up and we're cleaning up our campsite. We pulled off Hwy 6 on the Nevada/California border and camped in the Humboldt National Forest.

Jenn

I am sitting in front of Tenaya Lake under the moon light in Yosemite National Park. This was a long exposure shot. We just started our road trip east.

Romy

Here we stopped at "Rim of the World" pull off on Hwy 120 to take a picture before sunset. We are on our way east to meet Nicole and Marcel in Utah.

Nicole and Marcel

Here we climbed up to the summit of Bald Mountain - 11,760 ft. We never got to the Red Castle, but we saw it in the panorama view of the high Uinta Mountains.

Romy

Just finished welding on a mount for the license plate on the new bumper for the baja.

Jenn

In the garage with Romy.

Nicole

The trail got snowy up high and we made camp just under Bald Mountain.

Marcel

Hiking up the Red Castle Lakes trail. You can see the snow covered mountains in the background.

Marcel

Here we are  up by the Flaming Gorge, UT. You can see it in the background. We are on the way to the high Uintas Wilderness.

Nicole

Taking a break driving through Colorado by Dinosaur National Monument. It was too windy and hot.

Nicole and Marcel

 Bighorn Sheep

 Marmot eating plants

 Elk on the mountains

 We made the summit!

Climbing up in first gear causing traffic!

Jenn

Relaxing with a beer in the bus. It was nice and sunny, and I had to work on my paper, so I worked on it inside the bus today while Romy was working on the baja inside the garage.

Romy

We got the engine in finally, and now I am working on tightening up the CV joints. Since we put a bigger transmission in, we had to modify the axles and CV joints. We got off-road CV boots and new CV joints (for a Type IV) which have 22 degrees of travel, and Thing axles because they are shorter by about 1/2 an inch.

Romy

I am checking the end play of the crankshaft with a dial indicator.

Jenn

Today I went sailing on the small sailboat with Dena, one of the students in the class I GSI'ed for during Fall 2009 semester. She has a membership with Cal Adventures at the Berkeley Marina, and she wanted to practice, but not alone, so she invited me to go with. We almost capsized the boat because the wind was so strong! But it was fun!

Nicole

Somewhere in NE near Kearney.

Marcel

Near McCook, Ne

Jenn

I'm sleeping!

Romy

Cutting off a piece of metal so that the bumper will fit. There are sparks flying everywhere!

Nicole

This is the severe storm that blew through Iowa City right after we had a picnic! People in McDonald's were all into how they heard 70 mph wind and hail. Look at the wall cloud behind me! It was all calm until it hit, there were trees down, and the rain went sideways.

Marcel

Taking a break in Iowa City, Iowa. We are on the way to Utah.

Storm 6.18.10 Iowa

Storm 6.18.10 Iowa, originally uploaded by aFotoEachDay.

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Storm 6.18.10 Iowa

Storm 6.18.10 Iowa, originally uploaded by aFotoEachDay.

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Storm 6.18.10 Iowa

Storm 6.18.10 Iowa, originally uploaded by aFotoEachDay.

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Storm 6.18.10 Iowa

Storm 6.18.10 Iowa, originally uploaded by aFotoEachDay.

Storm!

Storm 6.18.10 Iowa

Storm 6.18.10 Iowa, originally uploaded by aFotoEachDay.

The crazy Storm!

Jenn & Romy

Floor foto!

Nicole

Good bye Mom!  Marcel took the picture on purpose because he thought it looked very corny.

Marcel

I can't rotate! Mitsy says hi. "Cat Power"

Romy

Ahhhhhhhhh!

Jenn

I am working on my research late into the night! I was trying to get the code to work. . .