Things I learned on the Road and other info

Space Bags aren't for traveling.  Great idea but cheaply made, they lose air and rip very easily.

Highest gas price paid: $4.29 at the Grand Canyon
Lowest gas price paid: $3.33 at Safeway in Kingman

Prostitutal - is a word

Google turn by turn directions are a giant piece of crap.  They are vague, wrong and extremely frustrating.  Also, they predict the time it takes to get somewhere without taking into consideration different speed limits.

When traveling, have maps for any city you plan on driving in AND state maps - you never know when you will change your mind and add an adventure.

You really do get jet lag traveling in a car.

Even a big hole in the ground is beautiful.

My thoughts on the trip - Jane

 First, I would like to say the road kill sighting and things were documented by Darlene as I was driving.  Many of the things she wrote I didn't know about until I was typing them for the blog.  I typed them word for word as she wrote them down.

Eight days with my sister and I still love her!  Loved seeing my parents!

I had a blast!  

Oregon: Very nice people.

I have absolutely no use for Las Vegas or the entire state of Nevada for that matter.  If I never return, that works for me.

The new bridge that has been added to bypass Hoover Dam is great!

Grand Canyon: wow!  it truly takes your breath away!

Zion National park: again, gorgeous!  So glad Darlene wanted to go there!

Salt Lake City: uh, well, nothing impressive there, looked like a run down hell hole to me, no need to return.

Antelope Island: Loved it!  I put one toe in the wet sand to say I touched the great Salt Lake.  It smelled so bad I didn't want to smell like that.  

Great Salt Lake: Bog of Eternal Stench

The State of Idaho, Southern portion: "    "

"If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all"

I am extremely happy to be home! I missed my Sweet Baaboo!  Can't wait to see my grand-babies!

Road sightings and stuff - days 5-8

Circled Safeway parking lot trying to get out

a red skirt

twisted shiny metal 

hub cap

bloody skid marks

guts

cows the color of sheep

pillow

mangled elk or deer

travelers and their spilled load

rodent on hind legs looking at the road

Donald, a Navajo whom we bought stuff from

on a Navajo Indian Reservation 4200 Elevation

possible rodent fatality - oops

very large porcupine - "he's a big 'un!"

The unidentified rodents are Kangaroo Rats

in Page, all the Churches are at the South end of town, in a row

8:55 am on Sunday, June 24, entered Utah - "will we become mormonized?"

something squished - grey fur with guts

blood splatter - no carcass

Armadillo or a purse

We got dirt and rocks in Zion!

deer 

uncoiled coil - "pooh, I'm unraveling!"

crunched animal, species unknown

raccoon (5) "raccoons are not safe in Utah"

fender?

tire indented animal

red and white cooler - 6 pack size

maroon bathroom rug

pigeon

poor kitty cat :(

pieces of something black

tiny baby fawn

someones clothes

kitty cat

skinny old man on tall skinny tractor

sofa pillows

porcupine

a dog or deer or something

a cat - I think

3 dead items or 3 pieces of one

some sort of K9 remains - coyote? wolf?

Space Bags - NO!

another poor kitty

I smell cow - around Jerome, ID

SKUNK

a sheep or dog

looked like a baby bear

window washing squeegees don't go in the trash can - Shell Station, Boise

was that a platypus?

????

furry balls (8)

a teddy bear and 2 pillows

deer wrapped around a pole

deer or dog

tail-less monkey?

a broken chair

a pink child's play tent

Zion National Park to Salt Lake

 the rolled up paper is a team picture of the Spokane Chiefs Hockey team

Left in parking lot in Page, Arizona

 Me at Zion National Park

 Doin' the speed limit in Utah

Darlene reading something

A teacup we found in the field in Kingman

 A small bird egg frying in the sun

 in the field

 

baseball

Mom and Dad's flag at night

my bed at Mom's

 A dying bug

Darlene's bed

 bush

Tarantula holes

Darlene, Me, Dad, Mom

 Mourning Dove

This is posted in the restroom at Grand Canyon

Me at the Grand Canyon

 I got this clock from the CFO at Rockwood Clinic when I worked there.  I didn't want it anymore so I left it leaning up against this tire in the Grand Canyon parking lot

Me with Donald, his girlfriend made the necklace I am wearing - authentic Navajo.

Day 3

Roadside sightings

• crow with feathers flapping in the wind
• part of a pink milk crate
• burned road side
• dead tires
• green fuzzy gopher, dead
• skinny legged something, squished
• whole dead, black bird
• underwear

Day 2

Road kill and whatnot

A white square plastic lid of some kind

• brown and white fur
• skid-marks
• brown and white furry guts - gopher?
• "Jack Ass F##! face" - Jane's reaction to a guy at a bar being mean about being asked for directions
• lead pipe
• red cloth
• hopping rodent - mouse/rabbit type (3)
• varmint trying to pick up a smashed friend
• dead fawn :(
• squished brown things (7)
• dead, sheared sheep
• brown or grey squished thing
• sand bag
• "The flashing lights were real"
• pieces of wood
• some matted fur
• base ball cap
• smashed wild cat spread eagle, like in a cartoon
• piece of a rug
• shoe
• red canopy with no windows
• blue garbage can