Sounds like you're in the spirit of the popular (but now defunct) Tour de Gravel that was held for a couple years around Lindsey, Texas. Too bad my neck can't take much more than 20 miles or so on my mountain bike, these days.

Hi Ray and Mike,
 
  I'll have to look for a course description route for the Tour de Gravel, sounds like my kind of ride!
 
Ray I think it will still work the worst sections of gravel only amount to a few miles of the route.  Actually with the dry conditions some of the dirt/fine gravel sections are smoother/faster than rough chip seal!  I found myself really moving on some of the smooth dirt, had to make up for the 6-7mph I was doing on the heavy gravel section.  You can ride it with 650 x 32B's but just barely, they're really too narrow to float over the rocks, and I kept sliding around.  I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have had the same issue with the 26 x 1.5 street tires on the MTB, although you still would need to be careful.
 
Good Luck with the trip, look forward to riding this weekend with you!
 
Take Care,
Nelson.

You know I find my Corsa handles pretty well on gravel and slippery conditions, not sure I could push the easy racer through though.  The front end tends to slide pretty easy in such situations.  What kind of bent did you ride John?  I was thinking I could have ridden everything yesterday on a Giro 26, but I just can't put wide enough tires on the Corsa.  
 
Take Care,
Nelson.

Quote from jcsadowski on Jan 13^th, 2008, 9:22pm:

I remember. You took pictures of my buddy and me.