The backdrop of the beautiful Rocky Mountain would be a calming effect on the prisoners as they serve their sentences. I hope the Department of Correctional has a place where they can go before parole. So good to see Mike back on the road again 😂
Not related to this video, but I just wanted to give a friendly reminder to be safe, even while parked somewhere. I found out today, that my one-time stepdaughter's father passed away from possible heat stroke, in his rig, down on So Cal. He had been a trucker for around 40 years. I even worked with him locally here for a couple of years. Anyway, keep these great videos coming. PEACE!!
We love this area not far from Mt Princeton hotsprings, a great KOA, and other camping spots... and BV is a fun lil town. Its nice to see this wasnt when the fires were raging.. that was aweful.
Hi Mike, you’ve been missed, obviously from the comments. Just pulled in from Vegas myself. Left 10.00 AM got here 11:00 PM lost a hour due to time change. 12 hours on the road 750 miles, split driving with my spouse. Took an hour for dinner in Phoenix. Took about 2 grand with us came back with $1200.00 not bad for 4 days of gaming. Good food but the hotel, Golden Nugget offered no amenities, included no room maid service , no valet parking, only 5 to a poker table, 3 to a blackjack table. Still managed to have a good time. Hope you are doing well? Enjoying the ride and will look forward to the next one. Thank you, Edward.
I lived in Colorado for 20 years in the 70’s and 80’s. I’ve driven every road you have shown on video and you bring back many great memories! Thanks for all of it and stay safe out there among the crazies from CA!
Did you ever hear anything about the Omaha scandal coverup? Children said they were trafficked to a house owned by a prison guard around the elephant rock
I used to carry my fishing pole too. I drove cabover, though and there wasn't anyplace to put it without it getting crunched. So, I mounted two of the pear shaped shower curtain hooks from the ceiling of the back of the sleeper and could slide the long end in one hook and the reel end in the other. The curtain hooks were rubbing on my fiberglass pole, though so I padded the shower curtain hooks with some foam rubber. It didn't rattle when I hit bumps anymore either... woo hoo! Ya gotta fish when ya can!
Watching your vidio's, makes me feel like I'm sitting in the copilot seat again. Used to ride along with my ex, many years ago. Love your vidio's. Thanks for the ride along.
A sincere welcome back Mike. I really enjoys your commentary and videos. I was checking my inbox for notifications two or three times a day! and yhinking I hope you are OK!
Buena Vista area is my favorite. I took my RV just off 285 between Buena and Salida. Stay free up to 14days. I didn't fish but there's river access further down. Another time in Colorado I was pulling a "skateboard" of bobcat parts. A dry van passed me and rolled over on 70 east.
Caught you video in one of the snowies mountains I never wanted to be on. Your hands down one of the best drivers out here new to the game much respect!!!! Hopefully one day we cross paths and I get to buy you a drink and ask you how the hell you still rolling around 😆. Love the content keep it coming
Hi Mt Man Mike I appreciate you riding shotgun and listening to you while Im at work I am a seamstress by trade so I at sewing machine most days I love your videos
@Riding Shotgun I like the way you handle your job, both the professionalism with which you do it and the way way you manage to get get some in recreation as well, without hurting your job performance. It reminds me of a Shakespeare quote "There is no profit made where there is no pleasure taken" ( I believe that was from "The Taming of the Shrew").
Monarch Pass terrifies me in a car. You've got nerves of steel! Glad you caught a fish in the Arkansas River. I live in Salida and all I do is Jeep around and fish!
When I drove for Schneider they told me I needed to lose my suicide knob on my steering wheel because they would be upset. That sucks about the tackle box.
There in Buena Vista lies the old Union Pacific Tennessee Pass Subdivision. There are talks about reviving the sub, which will give Union Pacific an alternate route west. As of now the only route west out of Denver will be the Moffat Tunnel Subdivision. This is the same subdivision Amtrak's California Zephyr runs. The California Zephyr runs from Chicago Illinois to Emeryville California. It currently serves the states of Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and California respectively. It runs BNSF territory from Chicago to Denver, then runs Union Pacific territory from Denver to Emeryville. The Union Pacific Tennessee Pass Subdivision runs from Pueblo off the off the Pikes Peak Subdivision to the Glenwood Springs Subdivision at Dotsero, just west of Gypsum Colorado. The Moffat Tunnel Subdivision runs from Denver to Phippsburg where it merges with the Craig Subdivision. Back in Bond the Moffat Tunnel will diverge onto the Glenwood Springs Sub at C.P Bond. Then the Glenwood Springs Subdivision will run to Grand Junction where it will merge onto the Green River Sub to Helper Utah. As you know the headwaters of the Arkansas River is near Leadville Colorado off the East Fork of the Arkansas River and Tennessee Creek. It runs all the way to the Mississippi River near the town of Beulah Mississippi. The Arkansas River runs through the states of Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. The navigation channel for barges actually begins on the Verdigris River in Catoosa Oklahoma at the Port of Catoosa. The Verdigris River will then have its confluence with the Arkansas River north of Muskogee Oklahoma. This is a part of the McClellan-Kerr Navigation System.
We used to have a cabin between Fairplay and Jefferson. It was like 20 miles off 285 on dirt roads. I’ve been through many whiteouts in South Park in the winter
Hi Mike, I enjoy your videos and I am absolutely in love with your country and the scenery of your countrys nature. I am from South Africa and also aquired my HGV licence in 1996. Here we used to call it Code 14 up to 2000 when they changed it to Code EC. Ive got a good mind and get a driving job that side when all this corona BS is over.
Your videos are a treat for anyone who loves driving or just traveling. Suggestion: pull your zoom back to include your mirrors - they also tell a story. Can you please try to bid a few runs that are NOT in the desert or the mountains. Thanks again for your effort !
One of the more interesting household moves I did was McNeil Island, Washington State when I had a prison guard's possessions as my 1st shipment going east that run. Had to take a ferry to get there since no bridge. On site at gate they inspected underneath rig, trailer for content, cab for content, sniffer dog for contraband. Loaded the gentleman up & upon leaving same routine. Seems like he went to Clinton, OK where he was raised to retire.
Mike, Eleven Mile State Park is a Colorado State Park located in Park County, 11 miles (18 km) south of Lake George, Colorado, United States. Established in 1970,
I unfortunately spent 2 years as a resident at Buena Vista Correctional facility. And 6 months at the bootcamp. I went back years later, to see the town, and everything that was around the prison. It's been over 21 years since I was there, possibly even longer. And I haven't even had as much as a speeding ticket. FYI, never lie for someone you love, because they may not love you the same.
Always stop at Gunsmoke for pit stop and coffee between San Luis Valley (childhood home) and Front Range. See they haven't fixed the holes in the parking lot. When you said you were going to Olathe I thought maybe you'd go over Wolf Creek Pass but I guess through Montrose is faster. Stay safe, there are a lot of us out here wishing you safe travels.
The owner of the Shell station right across the street from Gunsmoke is the nicest person in the world. I blew up the engine in my Audi on July 4th 2020, 14 days before you were there. I coasted it about seven miles down the pass without the engine running. @14:38 if you were turned just a little bit more left you would have seen it in the back lot. He let me keep it there for a few months while I arranged to get it back to Colorado Springs. Please buy gas from nice people!
Thanks to you I can now say I have been to Prison!! have a great day see ya around, stay safe and be kind to your neighbor you never know when you might need them., :)
Welcome back Mike. I wondered if they threw ya in the slammer or what went on since your last video was on the way to Buena Vista :-) Hope ya had a good 4th.
I read the sign at 8:20 about preventing escapes. You should deliver to Lake City in Independence Mo. They frisk you, go through your truck and take any and everything that resembles a weapon and once your backed in they take your keys, put a cover over the steering wheel and tell you to stay put until someone bring's your keys back. It took longer to get in than it did to get unloaded. That's not the same prison El Chapo is located is it?
That is a beautiful joint. I fell in love with jail and prison when I was 15 and had to go to a juvenile diversion program where we spent a day touring the county jail. Most kids I was with were scared straight, however I was fascinated by the whole concept and got a kick out of the inmates talking smack to us kids and I saw these huge muscular guys telling us if you want to get big come and do some time. Needless to say when I was 19 I went to that same jail for 6 months. By 22 I wound up with a 3 year prison sentence. I was paroled at 2 years. I gained 30 lbs of muscle. Became a man. I learned a lot and met lots of interesting people. I got out in. January 1995 and never went back. I believe all kids need to do at least 3 years when they turn 18.
BIGDAVE5352 - So you're a convicted felon and can never get a real job, why in the world would you want every 18 year old to screw up their life? Prison didn't make you a man it kept you from growing up and becoming one. Don't act like its something to be proud of......
you should consider keeping the camera going when its beautiful terrain like that ... some of us can't or don't get out much so we live vicariously through people like you... I'd love to see that type area again... 67 and hopeful ...
I worked for a local warehouse and delivered a load of something to the Costco Business Center in Phoenix and it was tight. I did it in one go, perfectly. Forgot to open doors! (Rookie)
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I wanted to go to prison so you took me there. We wanted to go fishing and didn't get to go. You left me in the truck
The backdrop of the beautiful Rocky Mountain would be a calming effect on the prisoners as they serve their sentences. I hope the Department of Correctional has a place where they can go before parole. So good to see Mike back on the road again 😂
Shouda had Folsom Prison Blues playing in background! Good to see another video!
Not related to this video, but I just wanted to give a friendly reminder to be safe, even while parked somewhere. I found out today, that my one-time stepdaughter's father passed away from possible heat stroke, in his rig, down on So Cal. He had been a trucker for around 40 years. I even worked with him locally here for a couple of years. Anyway, keep these great videos coming. PEACE!!
Well at least you made some kid happy, or some old guy feel like a kid again. "Hey look at this a tackle box, and it's full of nice lures"!
0:25, LOVE those mountains!!!
Beauties
We love this area not far from Mt Princeton hotsprings, a great KOA, and other camping spots... and BV is a fun lil town. Its nice to see this wasnt when the fires were raging.. that was aweful.
Hi Mike, you’ve been missed, obviously from the comments. Just pulled in from Vegas myself. Left 10.00 AM got here 11:00 PM lost a hour due to time change. 12 hours on the road 750 miles, split driving with my spouse. Took an hour for dinner in Phoenix. Took about 2 grand with us came back with $1200.00 not bad for 4 days of gaming. Good food but the hotel, Golden Nugget offered no amenities, included no room maid service , no valet parking, only 5 to a poker table, 3 to a blackjack table. Still managed to have a good time. Hope you are doing well? Enjoying the ride and will look forward to the next one. Thank you, Edward.
As a resident of Las Vegas I would like to say thank you for visiting. Hopefully very soon we will be back up and running at full speed!
I lived in Colorado for 20 years in the 70’s and 80’s. I’ve driven every road you have shown on video and you bring back many great memories! Thanks for all of it and stay safe out there among the crazies from CA!
Did you ever hear anything about the Omaha scandal coverup? Children said they were trafficked to a house owned by a prison guard around the elephant rock
At last the man is back ....god bless you Mike love your stuff✌️
Stay well and healthy - What a great sight at the pass . Happy trails, dude 😎
🎇 So nice to have you back. Love Monarch pass. Great to have you in my lounge room. Really enjoyable. Sée you again soon ✌
I enjoy your videos! Glad your back at it, gives me more motivation
I love seeing the Colo. mountains, I miss them. It's fun riding around with you, especially in Colo. And I like it when if's snowing.
Glad your back, was starting to get a little worried with all the crazies out there now. Stay safe, so appreciate the ride.still beautiful country.
Mike, welcome back! We’ve missed you! I hope you were taking that vacation you mentioned. Stay well and safe my friend.
I used to carry my fishing pole too. I drove cabover, though and there wasn't anyplace to put it without it getting crunched. So, I mounted two of the pear shaped shower curtain hooks from the ceiling of the back of the sleeper and could slide the long end in one hook and the reel end in the other. The curtain hooks were rubbing on my fiberglass pole, though so I padded the shower curtain hooks with some foam rubber. It didn't rattle when I hit bumps anymore either... woo hoo! Ya gotta fish when ya can!
I play American Truck Simulator and love watching your videos.
Being in South Florida, the view is awesome!! Closest I came to mountains was eastern Tennessee!!! Beautiful
Born n raised in Salida just down hwy 285. Beautiful country! God's country! Miss it alot.
Watching your vidio's, makes me feel like I'm sitting in the copilot seat again. Used to ride along with my ex, many years ago. Love your vidio's. Thanks for the ride along.
Dude. Glad you're back
Hey Shotgun. I’m loving your videos. Thank you for the CO geography lessons. Be safe. I’ll be watching you. Great job. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🙏🏼🙏🏼☺️👏
"Glad to see you back" gave me chance to catch up on your uploads. Keep safe.
Great to hear that "good morning, good morning!"
Hope you are well Mike!
Wish we could have seen the fishing under bridge where you caught 4!!😰Anyhoo great scenery on 285 and 24!! Be safe driver MMM!!!😃🚛🇺🇸🌷🌍
Driving in the mountains most of the time, its a dream job to me.
Hoola! A beautiful day in the hood! Was looking forward to some fish tales. Glad your back! Hope you are somewhere cool? Peace be unto you as well.
A sincere welcome back Mike. I really enjoys your commentary and videos. I was checking my inbox for notifications two or three times a day! and yhinking I hope you are OK!
waiting for new video. yahooooo thanks for uploading again. greetings from Saudi driver overseas worker Pilipino🙋♂️🇵🇭
Buena Vista area is my favorite. I took my RV just off 285 between Buena and Salida. Stay free up to 14days. I didn't fish but there's river access further down. Another time in Colorado I was pulling a "skateboard" of bobcat parts. A dry van passed me and rolled over on 70 east.
Thanks for a trip down memory lane...my old stomping grounds.
Caught you video in one of the snowies mountains I never wanted to be on. Your hands down one of the best drivers out here new to the game much respect!!!! Hopefully one day we cross paths and I get to buy you a drink and ask you how the hell you still rolling around 😆. Love the content keep it coming
Just Want Say Thanks Mike For Amazing Video Be Careful Out There And Always Happy Trucking
Shotgun ! Your back !! Happy Dance 💃!!
Go easy with that SHOTGUN TALK today , you'll have us all out of the truck and being searched at this JOINT !
Jafo 😂
Great to have you back
Hi Mt Man Mike I appreciate you riding shotgun and listening to you while Im at work I am a seamstress by trade so I at sewing machine most days I love your videos
Damn. Seeing that O-course brings me back to '01, lol.
I don't like driving, but I love being driven around an navigating, so your vids are really enjoyable. Just missing out on the stops and burgers lol.
Hello from Dublin Ireland Mike.
Antero reservoir is your big mud pit...lol. Good fishing there as well, great place to ice fish
@Riding Shotgun I like the way you handle your job, both the professionalism with which you do it and the way way you manage to get get some in recreation as well, without hurting your job performance. It reminds me of a Shakespeare quote "There is no profit made where there is no pleasure taken" ( I believe that was from "The Taming of the Shrew").
Wow that's an awesome video.. You must enjoy traveling everywhere. Have fun and stay safe.
Enjoyed it looking forward to the next one
I’m really happy that you cleaned up my windows! Thank you ☺️
Monarch Pass terrifies me in a car. You've got nerves of steel! Glad you caught a fish in the Arkansas River. I live in Salida and all I do is Jeep around and fish!
The little cloud above the mountain at about 16:50 reminds me on smoke signals in the old westerns.
I've parked in that same spot, hauling cobble stone from buenavista to Denver over Kenosha pass. Thanks for the ridealong
Good to see you back.
When I drove for Schneider they told me I needed to lose my suicide knob on my steering wheel because they would be upset. That sucks about the tackle box.
MIKE is a MASTER TRUCK HANDLER I SAW YOU BACKING THAT BIG RIG KEEP GOING M MIKE
I was in the mods 2012-2014 lol. I'm glad they finally paved the road up that way.
There in Buena Vista lies the old Union Pacific Tennessee Pass Subdivision. There are talks about reviving the sub, which will give Union Pacific an alternate route west. As of now the only route west out of Denver will be the Moffat Tunnel Subdivision. This is the same subdivision Amtrak's California Zephyr runs. The California Zephyr runs from Chicago Illinois to Emeryville California. It currently serves the states of Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and California respectively. It runs BNSF territory from Chicago to Denver, then runs Union Pacific territory from Denver to Emeryville.
The Union Pacific Tennessee Pass Subdivision runs from Pueblo off the off the Pikes Peak Subdivision to the Glenwood Springs Subdivision at Dotsero, just west of Gypsum Colorado. The Moffat Tunnel Subdivision runs from Denver to Phippsburg where it merges with the Craig Subdivision. Back in Bond the Moffat Tunnel will diverge onto the Glenwood Springs Sub at C.P Bond. Then the Glenwood Springs Subdivision will run to Grand Junction where it will merge onto the Green River Sub to Helper Utah.
As you know the headwaters of the Arkansas River is near Leadville Colorado off the East Fork of the Arkansas River and Tennessee Creek. It runs all the way to the Mississippi River near the town of Beulah Mississippi. The Arkansas River runs through the states of Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. The navigation channel for barges actually begins on the Verdigris River in Catoosa Oklahoma at the Port of Catoosa. The Verdigris River will then have its confluence with the Arkansas River north of Muskogee Oklahoma. This is a part of the McClellan-Kerr Navigation System.
Erica Baker - good knowledge! The continental divide. My family is from Alamosa and I've fished the Arkansas! Good luck!
So glad to see your back!
We used to have a cabin between Fairplay and Jefferson. It was like 20 miles off 285 on dirt roads. I’ve been through many whiteouts in South Park in the winter
Thanks for a nice ride! Sorry you weren’t making any money. The country out there is just beautiful.
beautiful scenery. so much open land.
Great job. Great efforts. Watnts to meet you.
Hope it was a vacation for you. Nice to be on the road again. TY. MMM
Hi Mike, like to see a review about your truck, thank you for giving us scenic views in Colarado.
He is back!!!
So glad you are back... Hope you are doing well. Yeah I can watch shotgun again..God bless stay safe.♥️🇺🇸🌹
Hi Mike, I enjoy your videos and I am absolutely in love with your country and the scenery of your countrys nature. I am from South Africa and also aquired my HGV licence in 1996. Here we used to call it Code 14 up to 2000 when they changed it to Code EC. Ive got a good mind and get a driving job that side when all this corona BS is over.
Hello Mike! Great camera videos. What kind of camera you using?
Been awhile, missed you.
Miss you and the beautiful scenery triple M.
Welcome back mike love your video. Be safe catch you on the flip flop.
Riding shotgun is back he is alive!
I thought he might of gotten locked up, haha
Lol
Of course!
Your videos are a treat for anyone who loves driving or just traveling. Suggestion: pull your zoom back to include your mirrors - they also tell a story. Can you please try to bid a few runs that are NOT in the desert or the mountains. Thanks again for your effort !
One of the more interesting household moves I did was McNeil Island, Washington State when I had a prison guard's possessions as my 1st shipment going east that run. Had to take a ferry to get there since no bridge. On site at gate they inspected underneath rig, trailer for content, cab for content, sniffer dog for contraband. Loaded the gentleman up & upon leaving same routine. Seems like he went to Clinton, OK where he was raised to retire.
Hi Mike was getting concerned thought you might've got the virus nice to see your still up and about peace Jim from new Zealand
GOOD video, excellent quality..
lol this video answered my question from the last post! I grew up in BV!!!
Good to see you back. Take care😊
Mike, Eleven Mile State Park is a Colorado State Park located in Park County, 11 miles (18 km) south of Lake George, Colorado, United States. Established in 1970,
I unfortunately spent 2 years as a resident at Buena Vista Correctional facility. And 6 months at the bootcamp.
I went back years later, to see the town, and everything that was around the prison.
It's been over 21 years since I was there, possibly even longer.
And I haven't even had as much as a speeding ticket.
FYI, never lie for someone you love, because they may not love you the same.
Bootcamp! Lol....i still have shin splints.
Always stop at Gunsmoke for pit stop and coffee between San Luis Valley (childhood home) and Front Range. See they haven't fixed the holes in the parking lot. When you said you were going to Olathe I thought maybe you'd go over Wolf Creek Pass but I guess through Montrose is faster. Stay safe, there are a lot of us out here wishing you safe travels.
The owner of the Shell station right across the street from Gunsmoke is the nicest person in the world. I blew up the engine in my Audi on July 4th 2020, 14 days before you were there. I coasted it about seven miles down the pass without the engine running. @14:38 if you were turned just a little bit more left you would have seen it in the back lot. He let me keep it there for a few months while I arranged to get it back to Colorado Springs. Please buy gas from nice people!
Missed you Mike great trip hope to see you soon,love the Mountains!
The people at the prison were possibly concerned that you were going to use your fishing pole to flick illegal substances over the fence.
Not a bad idea
My stepson was in there for a few years. I've been there a few times. Beautiful area. The locals pronounce it byoona vista.
The last time I was across 285 was in 2012, it's a great way to avoid the port on I-70 West.
Thanks to you I can now say I have been to Prison!! have a great day see ya around, stay safe and be kind to your neighbor you never know when you might need them., :)
I know someone doing LWOP here. What are the conditions compared to maximum security prison, like Sterling?
Was beginning to think the COVID got ya, good to see ya back!
Welcome back Mike. I wondered if they threw ya in the slammer or what went on since your last video was on the way to Buena Vista :-) Hope ya had a good 4th.
I read the sign at 8:20 about preventing escapes. You should deliver to Lake City in Independence Mo. They frisk you, go through your truck and take any and everything that resembles a weapon and once your backed in they take your keys, put a cover over the steering wheel and tell you to stay put until someone bring's your keys back. It took longer to get in than it did to get unloaded. That's not the same prison El Chapo is located is it?
That is a beautiful joint. I fell in love with jail and prison when I was 15 and had to go to a juvenile diversion program where we spent a day touring the county jail. Most kids I was with were scared straight, however I was fascinated by the whole concept and got a kick out of the inmates talking smack to us kids and I saw these huge muscular guys telling us if you want to get big come and do some time. Needless to say when I was 19 I went to that same jail for 6 months. By 22 I wound up with a 3 year prison sentence. I was paroled at 2 years. I gained 30 lbs of muscle. Became a man. I learned a lot and met lots of interesting people. I got out in. January 1995 and never went back. I believe all kids need to do at least 3 years when they turn 18.
BIGDAVE5352 - So you're a convicted felon and can never get a real job, why in the world would you want every 18 year old to screw up their life? Prison didn't make you a man it kept you from growing up and becoming one. Don't act like its something to be proud of......
You have to fight when Big Bubba comes to your cell at midnight !!
Well The Mountains probably help keep the prisoners calm.
Generally cant see them from inside.
Hiya Mike,nice to be along again:)✌❤
Good morning...from Brazil !!
G'day big fella. Greetings from Australia!
I remember driving thru Monarch pass as a rookie driver
Memory loss comes with age lol
Good to see you again.
Just been thinking of you. Glad all is well!
Glad u back be safe.
Nice views of the Boot Camp.
you should consider keeping the camera going when its beautiful terrain like that ... some of us can't or don't get out much so we live vicariously through people like you... I'd love to see that type area again... 67 and hopeful ...
I worked for a local warehouse and delivered a load of something to the Costco Business Center in Phoenix and it was tight. I did it in one go, perfectly. Forgot to open doors! (Rookie)