Drake has desperately wanted to go for a motorcycle ride out in the foothills so he was eager to help me finish repairing the damaged roughed in plumbing for the shop so we could leave as soon as possible. It really was a lot of help to have him as a gopher where he could ride back and forth on his motorcycle retrieving anything we needed. Eventually, as the heat of the day peaked, we finished up and loaded up to go. Landon felt dejected thinking he wouldn’t be able to join us which quickly turned to elation when I invited him. He scrambled as fast as he could to get dressed for the adventure. The hills were hot and dry so it was amazing after traveling west for the entire journey to reach an oasis dead end. The road on which we traveled came to an abrupt end on the precipice of a deep ravine. In the bottom was the beautiful clear water of a large canal. It would have been so nice to jump in for a swim but the boys weren’t prepared for that.
Some Highlights:
We had a failed stalk on a badger.
Landon learned that you should never climb onto a motorcycle from the right side when my TW200 toppled over on him, gratefully not injuring him.
We got a lot of pistol shooting at ground squirrels and they entertained us all of the way back to the truck as they played chicken with us darting across the road and running alongside us.