What Trucks are Meant For

The trip to the O RO Ranch was awesome. More details will follow in posts throughout the rest of the week; many pictures will show up too - Tracy and I took 2290 (many duplicates). The process of weeding through all of those will take some time.

But for a first post, I thought I'd go with a rather humorous subject.

The ranch encompasses 235,000 acres of gorgeous, wild, rugged terrain. Roads on the ranch, by and large, are primitive and rough - unlike anything most people on the East Coast (at least) would ever think to associate with the term "road." Frequently washed out, rocky, muddy when it rains, and criss-crossed by streams of variable depth and width, even 4x4 trucks can't make it through, some of the time. After heading out to one of the vistas on the ranch, a recent visitor from the East Coast remarked "I didn't know cars could do that!"

Surprisingly enough, that's what 4x4 trucks are meant to do: haul heavy cargo over rugged terrain. As opposed to, say, being prettily painted, cut down, and made to run on smooth-paved roads with performance tires.

P.S. I know the title's bad grammar. But hey.... We're talking about big, beefy trucks here. Grammar's got no place.