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Posted by: Roberto Flores
« on: November 27, 2012, 07:44:36 AM »

What a fantastic set of pics! And what a wonderful countryside! I love specially that old house.
Thanks a lot!
Posted by: Carls_jeep
« on: November 23, 2012, 09:36:16 PM »

 :) your welcome Calvin. I wish you and Lucille could have went with us but the trails in San Juan County make places I can go here pale in comparison.

I get depressed when I think about being 1700 miles from my favorite trails and friends in San Juan County. I am looking forward to driving the trails with you and Lucille, Mac and Robin and all the other friends we Jeep with there.

I need to win the lottery so I can move to Blanding.
Posted by: calvinhunt
« on: November 23, 2012, 01:32:50 AM »

Much better.  Remember, A picture is worth a thousand words.  Thanks.
Posted by: Carls_jeep
« on: November 22, 2012, 10:06:00 PM »

No, I'm having to much fun.  ;D He is putting a stone patio in his back yard so we took a few interesting large flat rocks home with us. The rocks here are full of fossils.
Posted by: gmcjr
« on: November 22, 2012, 06:28:32 PM »

Great pictures!!!!!! �Thanks for sharing, looks like you and your son where having a ball! � �It aint right though, you went jeepin' and I had to get another dose of my "I'm owed everything" sister-in-law. Wanna Trade????? � :o :o :o :o :o
Posted by: Carls_jeep
« on: November 22, 2012, 05:43:31 PM »

Today my son and I went on the same roads Davis and I did so you could see some photo's. The first is when we crossed Beech Creek on Beech Creek rd.



The next is when we crossed Beech Creek again on Hall rd.



The next is the 1790's stone home on Haley rd.



The next is crossing Buck Creek between Haley rd and VanDike rd. It's used daily by local traffic as long as the water is down. I forgot to take a photo here so this is a summer photo of half the creek. I was in the middle of the creek by an island when I took the shot. This is where I took the photo of my wife in the Jeep as my avatar.



The last one is crossing Brashears Creek on John Henry rd to Brashears Creek rd.



Today is the last nice day for a while as it's supposed to get cold and rainy for a while. All in all it was a nice Thanksgiving day for sure.

Posted by: Carls_jeep
« on: November 15, 2012, 11:28:04 AM »

 :-[ well, I, uhh, I took it with me but we were having so much fun and talking about what we saw I completely forgot to take photo's. I did intend to take pictures but fun got in the way. I did take a lot of photo's of the old stone home we visited.

Tell you what, I will go over the same route and take some photo's to post. I was thinking about taking that trip again anyway.

Actually the camera I used on the last trip to Utah broke the last few days of the trip. It would not zoom so everything the last two days was taken in normal range, no close ups.

When I got home I replaced it with an Olympus FE-5020. It had a problem so I had to send it back to the factory and they replaced it rather than repair it. It works just fine now but it's functions are different from my old FE-280. I'm thinking about sending it to the factory to have it repaired if they can.
Posted by: calvinhunt
« on: November 15, 2012, 12:37:52 AM »

Carl,
  Is your camera broken?  You tell of a nice ride with interesting places, but you didn't show them to us.  Thanks for the narrative, anyway.  Even a narrative alone of some activity is better than no post at all.
Posted by: Macgraham
« on: November 11, 2012, 09:58:34 PM »

Sounds like a great day, Carl. We know that some places in the west have a lot more room and I hope we will be able to use it without interference. Mac
Posted by: Carls_jeep
« on: November 09, 2012, 08:23:36 PM »

Today I took a good friend, Davis Lee Downs, for a Jeep ride. At 1 PM we left my home and I drove to Beech Creek Rd and down that primitive road, which is the only wagon trail road left in the County in it's original condition, which is rough and rocky. We forded Beech Creek at the bottom of the hill and headed to Mill Rd and then to Little Mount Rd then to Hall Rd. We went down Hall Rd to cross a Creek and then up a hill into a remote farm stead. We drove the Forrest trail to the fence line and then came out again. At the Creek Davis and I shot our pistols a while. He had a M1911 and I had a Ruger P85.  

I then drove across Little Mount Rd to Rice lane and then to Little Mount Church Rd. then on Haley Rd. We drove past the ford I will cross to a stone farm home built in the late 1790's. It's built in the Irish stone mason style. I have been there several time and the gate was always locked. This time the gate was open so we drove back to the home which is about a half mile from the road. We took photo's of the outside of the home close up which I have never been able to do. The owner was bush hogging and he came up to the home and we talked. It turned out he was an Army Ranger in Viet Nam and Davis Lee was there at the same time and they discussed their time there. He took us on a tour of the home that he is in the process of restoring it to it's original condition. His family owned it in the distant past. I got some photo's of the inside of the home. The walls are alleged to be 22" thick and it has two fire places, one at each end of the home. It's a two story home with an interesting stairway to the second floor between the two first floor rooms. The upper floor is also two rooms. It used to have slave quarters just outside the home but only the foundation survived.

This turned out to be a great thing because the Spencer County Historical Society, of which my wife is the President, has been trying to get a tour of the home. I asked if we could get a tour and he said he would be pleased to do so and we will get that tour in the spring when the home is in a more finished condition.

When we left there we drove back to the ford at the place where the early settlement of Rivals was. Haley road is on one side of Buck Creek and Normandy Rd on the other. We crossed to Normandy Rd and turned left and a few miles later I turned left at a fork in the road onto Yoder Tipton Rd. When we reached the cross road of John Henry Rd I took a left and went down John Henry Rd. This road was at one time a farm road on John Henry's farm and it leads to the back of his farm. Near the back of his farm is another farm road that goes down to Brashears Creek and fords that Creek. We drove back to a subdivision that is on the back of the farm and then back to the ford.

I think John Henry, an early pioneer settler, at one time owned several thousand acres there and at that time he gave the local settlers permission to drive across his farm and cross Brashears Creek. With the passage of time and continued use the road became what is here called a Public Road giving everyone the right to use it. Lately a person living in Chicago bought a strip of land on the far side of Brashears Creek and has tried to keep people from crossing the creek and driving across their land. Every time they took a trespasser to court the Judge threw it out. Now they have given up blocking the road and serving warrants for trespass. The road is now in fine shape, of course it's still a dirt road, from everyone using it and there is no way it can be legally closed without the Courts permission as long as it is continued to be used.

From there we went back to my home and got there about 4 PM. It was a fine trip on a fine day of about 60+ deg. Davis said he has lived in Spencer County for 67 years, less the time he was in the Military, and while he has traveled much of the County as a youth born here and as a Realtor in the County I took him places he has never been. We crossed four fords which are all I know of that can still be reached by the public legally. The rest are on private land or are no longer able to be crossed due to washouts and land contour changes.