Somehow all of my roadtrips.....

[thirdgenlxi]

.... Even the seemingly boring ones, always seem to turn into some kind of adventure at some point And this is how it went today


So..... I left my moms up by Chicago, Illinois yesterday and ventured my way back down to central Illinois. Along the way I went over to Henry, IL and met up with a guy from 600rr.net. We rode around for awhile, met up with another friend of his and rode around some more, went and got a pizza, watched fireworks then 4 people got ran over by a car... it was a big mess. We finally made our way back to his place, hung out for ahile then went to bed. We get up this morning and we're sitting there eating breakfast, and his phone rings.... it's a friend of his... "hey.... I kinda got a problem"

So we finish breakfast, then leave and go over to get his 4x4 truck, and head over and meet his friend over by Peoria, who was quite happy to see us. We get there, and find the problem to be....

This:





This is the ravine down below.... it was a good 15-20ft drop and straight down



If you look closely, the ONLY thing holding the truck there is that little tree stump it's pressing up against. Had that not been there, the truck would have slid down into the ravine. The RF wheel was dangling over the edge. This mud was super slippery and with deep ruts, even the 4x4 truck was sliding all over the place. The Ranger was a 4x4 as well, but it wasn't working so it was essintially a 2wd, lol



Luckily, we had a wench (this guy pulls people out all the time, or himself sometimes, lol). Absolute lifesaver, and saved the day for sure!



WooHoo! Success! Only damage was a bent up licence plate... no biggie



But we still had to get out.... it was a good 1/2 mile or so to get to the paved road, and this muddy road was in absolute hellacious condition, with huge ruts and holes everywhere. We were bouncing and sliding all over the place even in the 4x4. We went first and the Ranger followed so that we could pull it if need be. It got stuck a few times along the way, and we thought we were gonna have to hook the strap up and tow it



But they were able to rock it some and it made it out all on it's own



Success once again!



This was the road going in.... pretty nasty since it rained pretty hard the entire night prior, and all day that day so far




So yea... that was my fun for the morning