Maybe more adventure than we bargained for ...
Well, we'd have made pretty decent time through the canyon if we hadn't gotten stuck IN TOWN RIGHT AFTER WE LEFT in a traffic jam that delayed us nearly an hour. O__O It was all right--we just had fun listening to an MCR CD and singing, but it did delay us by quite a bit. We drove up to this place in pitch darkness. It's in a tiny remote Utah town. I said to P as we turned off the highway, "Well, if worse comes to very worst, there's camping here!" ... only to find the camping sign referred to the very place we're staying! ! The handpainted sign looked pretty sketchy, as did the dirt lot, and at first we couldn't reach the manager ... though then a neighbor saw us trying to call him and came out of his place, the nicest guy ever, telling us where to find the manager, then the manager called, also very nice, and we got in the place, and it's SO NICE. We'll try to take pictures tomorrow morning so you can see (which will be the first we ourselves have seen of the outside!). The most adorable cowboy decor!!
As for the canyon, it was reeealllly slow going for about 40 minutes. We wondered if we'd be able to see what the rockslide did to the road. We were on the eastbound section at that part, one lane each way, with the damaged westbound part of the road some twenty feet above us, but still, there were parts of road and railings that had just gotten plumb knocked off the upper highway there. It was pretty intense.
You ladies are all so wonderful with your sweet messages this morning and last night--they helped me feel way better about my anxiety on the trip. <3 <3 <3 I look forward to responding and catching up on lj when I have more time and can focus on doing it properly. :-)
Okay, I wrote all that last night. Con starts tomorrow! Still as ever anxious, but better now we're here. I should really be trying to sleep instead of doing this, but I'm a little too anxious to still, and I thought you might like to see the video we made today. We forgot the connector with which to upload still pictures, but my video camera has an attached USB, so I was able to upload video! I decided to film a few things today so you could see the cowboy VRBO and some of the scenery around here, and I ended up catching today's adventure on tape. I hope you enjoy. It'll probably be more amusing to watch than it was to live, but hey, life's always gotta throw a few surprises atcha ...
As for the canyon, it was reeealllly slow going for about 40 minutes. We wondered if we'd be able to see what the rockslide did to the road. We were on the eastbound section at that part, one lane each way, with the damaged westbound part of the road some twenty feet above us, but still, there were parts of road and railings that had just gotten plumb knocked off the upper highway there. It was pretty intense.
You ladies are all so wonderful with your sweet messages this morning and last night--they helped me feel way better about my anxiety on the trip. <3 <3 <3 I look forward to responding and catching up on lj when I have more time and can focus on doing it properly. :-)
Okay, I wrote all that last night. Con starts tomorrow! Still as ever anxious, but better now we're here. I should really be trying to sleep instead of doing this, but I'm a little too anxious to still, and I thought you might like to see the video we made today. We forgot the connector with which to upload still pictures, but my video camera has an attached USB, so I was able to upload video! I decided to film a few things today so you could see the cowboy VRBO and some of the scenery around here, and I ended up catching today's adventure on tape. I hope you enjoy. It'll probably be more amusing to watch than it was to live, but hey, life's always gotta throw a few surprises atcha ...
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