Last week we went to the annual "desert 100" where we get to fly aroung the washington desert at warp speed on our dirtbikes. this time, Frank actually graced us with his presence*. Justin, lisa, and tim were also there as usual. we left town with a motorhome full of teenagers ( joey, his buddy, his cousin kirsten and her friend) and deb and i. this is one of the fun weekends camping we look forward to all year and deb actually likes riding here best ( mountain trails best in my book). anyway, we had a great time as usual , got there eary friday where we saved enough space for many friends and family that showed up. all in all there are roughly 6-7 thousand people that invaded the small town of odessa, wa. and camped/rode on wes kings 21,000acre ranch! wooo hooo, really rough, tough, rocky,sandy,hilly,and muddy ( rained friday night) terrain! for the "ironman" poker run, we did two 36 mile laps at insane speeds and no one in our group had any trouble. of course, joey flew out to the lead right away and that was the last we saw of him until arriving back at camp 1 1/2 hours later. he decided to skip lap two, but the rest of us had no problem going back out. the race on sunday ( none in our group raced this year) is an unbelievable 900 bikes all on one looong line start. complete thunder and ground shake when they all take off at the same time! wow!! deb even scored a trophy ( and didn't race or go on the ironman, but she has ways of getting anything i swear!)

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OK...I don't have much to post but I figured not that many of my family has seen me since I went natural. Cameron took this picture (hence the reason why she isn't in the picture).......

Easter 2007 and Ethan.... took a few pictures of him at his aunts house today. what a grandkid eh?? one shows him with his daddy ( Anthony).

Joe

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Easter Snow in Texas

Can't believe it snowed this late in the year here. This is the front and back of the house on Easter Saturday.

DAD

desert riding part 2

So i had to throw in a few more shots of our desert prep ride...we had fun!

Desert riding 2007

It was a beautiful day in eastern WA. on sunday when Joey and i hit the desert for some dirt riding. we wanted to prep for when we ride similar terrain in 2 weeks at the desert 100 ironman event we always go to. here are a couple of the cool views you see in the area we rode ( central wa, near vantage at mattawa). one is shot from way up on a mesa/ hill that we rode up to and around, and the other looks back up to the very spot from down below where we rode later. pretty cool terrain i must say ( we have been here many times before). the columbia river is in the background and i would say we are 2500-3000 ft up so you can see a hundred miles across flat eastern WA. this kind of riding is neat to do a few times a year and is a far cry from the usual woods/trails/mountain stuff we like best.