4-Wheeling by Ourselves!!

Where's the dust? Where's the blue jeep! How will we find our way? What if something happens to us? Where are we? When can we do this again? All questions we asked ourselves today on our first 4-wheeling trip since my sister was diagnosed with her fatal disease. It was a sad trip but it was a good trip. We learned that we didn't have to stop doing something we enjoyed just because we didn't have someone to do it with anymore.

For the first time we had to plan our own route. My brother-in-law, Mike, used to do that for us but he has moved on to other things. We also had to make sure we stayed on our route. No more relying on their blue jeep to show us the way. It was definitely challenging and helped to build our confidence. We are ready to do it again! We survived and we feel good..

Our trip really wasn't a biggie. We needed a cache to fill in another square of the Fizzy challenge. It was up in the Kingsbury grade area near Lake Tahoe. We had plenty of paved roads to get us to the beginning of our dirt road. Then we were in 4x4 and winding our way over rough roads. We didn't have too many turn choices so we just kept moving forward. It was strange to have the dust only behind us. We didn't have to roll up the windows and we could actually see the road in front. we did have to weave around a few obstacles but we did it!

Of course we have been in this area before and we thought about continuing on to the other side but we were running out of time and we weren't sure on timing so we turned around once we found our required cache and retraced our route. It was a lovely drive. We only saw two other people out there and they were on dirt bikes. The weather was perfect and the views were great.

It was a good adventure! Here's to more!!




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