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the smoky mountains

Well lets see well I have gone over the just about every country one the planet in a plane, in a truck the Rockeys, on a bike lets see I have dirven over Donners Pass. But I dont think that is the kind of stuff you are talking about driving over well on one of my dirt bikes I drove over a couple of smashed cars in my Grandpas back forty just because I could and on the road one time I was goind down a old highway in South Dakota and ended driving over a rather large Snapping turtle. This story is a doosy I was driving down the road behind a truck about 50 feet or so behind him and then all of a sudden this big arss snapper came out from underneath the truck and right in frount of me stoped and the frount wheel hit it and went in the air and so did the rest of the bike. In my opion the only thing that saved the bike and myself from going down was due to the 10+ years of riding dirtbikes.

An Ohio groundhog, I hit the little sucker with my back wheel, but it didn't kill him. Be careful, the little fur covered speed bump is still out there waiting for another unsuspecting rider to come along. XS

A goffer.

A very large raccoon at about 30 mph on a circular interstate on-ramp. The front tire slid about 6 inches or so to my left. I never felt the rear tire hit it. It happened at night and he came out of nowhere... Luckily, I kept it upright