Empty road ahead photos
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Above Oso.

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The southern end of the Sawn range of the Rockies is off to the left. Lot of fires outside of Seeley Lake a few weeks after I finished my tour last year. The wind was so strong that the smoke clouded Missoula.
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Last summer was the worst fire and smoke year I've ever seen, by a factor of a thousand. I didn't feel safe breathing the air inside my home. One morning, ash rained down from the sky. It was hell on earth.
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LA River Bike Path near Griffith Park


Highway 150
Simi Valley Bike Path

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MT 2, the scene of quite a massacre many years ago when I drove though once in the early 90s. Triple digits in the Spirit R/T and many a prairie dog and bird were slaughtered. I remember picking the bird out of the grill and front air dam when I stopped for gas.
This year I'll be driving through MT in a Jeep Patriot with a terrible CVT that you can't drive over 65 without it overheating.

Going to be a long trip....
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From Saturday's ride. This shows just how bad the drought is out here.

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Between Melrose and Twin Bridges, MT.

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SE Missouri--rolling, well maintained roads with minimal traffic. Great place to ride just out the driveway!
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Love all these open road pics. Here in the swamps of the Low Country you can't see that far ahead.
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A tunnel of foliage ahead, on Guyan River Road near Barboursville, West Virginia. A nice shaded segment of a sunny Sunday morning ride.

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Near the top of Sunshine Canyon, west of Boulder, CO.

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Not exactly an empty road, so how about an empty rail-trail? This is the North Bend Rail-Trail near Cairo, W.Va., on a cloudy early-autumn day.
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Rutland, MA today

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A few weeks ago, autumn cactus blooms, Somis, CA