GPS directed me, Versys got me there...

Now that's what I called an adventure Glad the V made it look easy. Where were you heading to (and from where)?

I did something similar too, and took some risk of being stuck in the mud with a Mazda MPV V6. I was somewhere near Los Alamos and found a route (short cut, according to the map) but little did i know it was unpaved. My 2WD mpv wasn't built for such roads, let alone the street tires it had on and they got like a 1000 miles life in them left. Had a couple of area where the roads turned muddy. With prayers, I got through them. Met a couple on a cruiser there and they had worse luck than me in the mud. I offered my help to pull the bike out with the van but they managed somehow. Saw lots of things i would have not seen if I've stayed on the main roads, like Prairie Dogs. I was sweating cold sweat all the way while the rest of my family was super excited at the wilderness; I was afraid of getting stuck in the mud, and there's no one to help, no cellulor phone.

Well, managed to get out safely and got back onto the interstate heading west. Glad to meet up with that couple on the cruiser as they too made it out all right and they gave me a friendly honk when they passed me. That was in 1997.

2daMax said:

Now that's what I called an adventure Glad the V made it look easy. Where were you heading to (and from where)?
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I was heading south to the Florida Panhandle through Alabama. The pics were taken between Birmingham and Montgomery between I-65 and US-231.

I do my best to avoid passing through any town bigger than one traffic light when I am travelling on the Versys.

Shortcuts do make me a little nervous. The GPS has put me at a farmer's barn more than once, but I'm sure they are used to seeing strangers on their driveway thanks to GPS mapping. I do notice other out of state vehicles on the same roads because of the GPS.

I love history so the other thing I get to discover thanks to backroad travelling is historic markers.

LMAO!
I just had the same thing happen to me on a cross country run where I couldn't figure out why the GPS kept taking me down one lane roads that frequently looked like someone's driveway. However these detours became highlights of the trip. The last one got a little worrying though as 40 miles down a one lane country road things started to get a little hairy and my buddy didn't have enough fuel to turn around (and she was on a heavily laden cruiser so I was not popular that day). Had to keep plugging on and hope the road continued onto the town that was not far ahead.


Erm, is this the main road into Ketchum?

Yep.

Gotta watch that darned GPS.

You're liable to end up just about anywhere.

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