crwalkerasla
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I recently had the opportunity to take my '06H3 on a cross country trek. I had a week long conference in Denver CO, and the family wasn't able to tag along, so with a 4-day weekend ahead of me I was ready to leave my home in NE Mississippi (Corinth) set out on the Trans-American Trail.
Due to some last minute issues with work I had to head into Memphis, TN the morning I was to leave, so I cut short the beginning of the TAT and took I-40 until the two crossed near Stuttgart (East Central) AR.
For those who don't know, the TAT is (theoretically) all 2-lane public county roads, much of which is gravel back roads, 2-track field roads, national forests, etc. and the like, so you can traverse America without the threat of trespassing on private property. That being said, some of these roads are maintained much better than others, and I crossed several NO TRESPASSING signs next to cattle guards on the trail. Western Arkansas and the Ozarks was a fun ride and I needed 2X the time I had set aside to really enjoy the ride.
Oklahoma was a transition from the Ozarks, to rolling hills and broad valleys to the open plains of Kansas.
Taking a 2-track trail through a soybean field, you run head-long into a barbed wire fence that is the New Mexico Border. For a fellow from Mississippi, New Mexico was spectacular. It quickly changed from Broad plains, to rolling scrub, and then out of nowhere you were on the lip of a canyon.
Due to some last minute issues with work I had to head into Memphis, TN the morning I was to leave, so I cut short the beginning of the TAT and took I-40 until the two crossed near Stuttgart (East Central) AR.
For those who don't know, the TAT is (theoretically) all 2-lane public county roads, much of which is gravel back roads, 2-track field roads, national forests, etc. and the like, so you can traverse America without the threat of trespassing on private property. That being said, some of these roads are maintained much better than others, and I crossed several NO TRESPASSING signs next to cattle guards on the trail. Western Arkansas and the Ozarks was a fun ride and I needed 2X the time I had set aside to really enjoy the ride.
Oklahoma was a transition from the Ozarks, to rolling hills and broad valleys to the open plains of Kansas.
Taking a 2-track trail through a soybean field, you run head-long into a barbed wire fence that is the New Mexico Border. For a fellow from Mississippi, New Mexico was spectacular. It quickly changed from Broad plains, to rolling scrub, and then out of nowhere you were on the lip of a canyon.