The infamous van is being driven right now as you read this

After a busy week of riding in New York, Denver and Pueblo, we flew on into Fresno, where Ryan McConnel picked us up at the airport in our van. Yes, that van. He drove us to the hotel and I got to thinking, Man, I really need to get this van back to Texas."

I called the airline and changed my flight home and got everything organized to where I could save my ticket and actually drive the van back to Texas from California after the weekend.

So Cody Ford and I decide this is what we're going to do--we're going to drive it down here together. After the Sacramento event we load it up, but first we have to drive it 12 hours north, from where the bull riding was, up to his house in Oregon.

He needed to get some stuff done and yesterday afternoon we leave there and Cody's driving the van. We only get about 20 miles down the road and we get pulled over.

We knew it was going to be a little dangerous for us to be driving the van across country because it doesn't have a license plate on it, it's not registered and it's not insured--simply because it's been sitting at Ryan McConnel's house and nobody's taken care of it.

We were hoping to do a lot of nighttime driving so that hopefully no one would notice we didn't have a license. Well, what do you know? They noticed.

He pulls us over and we're sitting on the side of the road when the officer asks us, "Where's your license plate?" So we have to tell him we don't one. Then asks to take a look at our proof of insurance card and, again, we tell him, "Well, we don't have one of those either."

Then he asks Cody Ford for his drivers license and, well, come to find out Cody doesn't have a drivers license. He only has an ID card.

Cody's pretty sure his ID should be good, but when the officer goes back to his car to run a check on his ID he discovers his drivers license is suspended. So he comes back up there and tells us the VIN numbers aren't matching up on the van, Cody's license is suspended, no license plate, no insurance and then one guy says he's from California and the other one is from Arkansas.

He's not painting a very good picture and we're starting to get nervous.

He made us get out of the van so he could search it and, as it turns out, some of the older bull riders used the van this past weekend in Sacramento because it was a free ride and they didn't have to pay for a cab. I guess while they were out they bought some extra beer and, well, guess where it ended up?

There was a six-pack under the backseat so the first thing the guy asks is how old we are? We tell him we're only 20 and then we explain to him that it wasn't ours.

We had to tell him everything so we told him how we bought the van in Cheyenne, drove it up to Canada, back down to Arkansas, over to New Mexico, out to California and that how we had to up to Oregon before heading down to Texas to a PBR bull riding this weekend.

I guess he either liked our story or he was a fan of bull riding.

In the end, all he did was give Cody a fine for driving with a suspended driver's license and then he told us to be careful. So now, hopefully, 1,500 miles later we'll be arriving in Dallas.

So as you're reading this, yes, we're still driving the van, but the infamous van will be in Dallas and if you have any questions or comments you can write it on post-it note and leave it on the window.

We're hoping for some suggestions because it is about be pimped out.

We're going to get it cleaned. We're going to put some screens in it and put some speakers in it. We're going to make sure everything is still good with the motor, which I don't see how anything could be going bad because it still gets 20 miles to the gallon and it easily does 85 down the highway.

After that--the van is actually going home with me.

At the bull riding this weekend we were all kind of sitting around – Cody Ford, Cody Campbell, Ryan Dirteater, Ryan McConnel, Clayton Williams and I – and we were going to try and get it to where one person owned the van by the end of the weekend, but no one wanted to sell their stock in the van so we're all still co-owners.

Seriously, it would be kind of an emotional time for any one of us to part with our ownership.

But, needless to say, it's going back to Texas with me and it's going to get taken care of courtesy of Clayton and me. Hopefully the next time people see the van there's no telling where it'll be.

It's not off the hook yet. It's also going to several other Built Ford Tough Series events--Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Birmingham, Nashville and Springfield. If, at some point, it changes hands to one of the other owners, it could end up at some events close to their house too.

And maybe we'll drive it to New York City next year.

There's no telling where you'll see the van. You just look for the white van with the pink pinstripes and the pink interior and you'll know we're there.