My trip!
This trip, I will write something, hopefully every day, and then post every once in a while...maybe a couple times this trip...
Tuesday, February 8. 8am
As I write this, we're almost to Pheonix. We were going to TRY and leave this morning at about 4, but didn't actually leave 'til 5:30ish. Sad, sad thing... :-p We just passed over the Gila River, which HAS WATER!!! Crazy, but really neat! We should get to Vivian's house in about 30-45 minutes (I think), and then off we go! "Up, up, and away!" as it's said! I know, I know, that's a superhero's saying that I just stole, but, really, who cares? :-p After we go to Vivian's, we will hopefully decide which way we'll actually go. Either through Utah, or through Nevada. *sigh!* What a world... :-p
KJZZ
The radio station my parents have on. Israelis and Palastinian's have come to a ceace fire. Both are at summit in Egypt, with the king of Jordan, and the Egyptian leader. "Halting all violent actions" etc. Condaliza Rice make tour of Europe to try to get "them" on "our" side. Iraqi army explosion. Suicide bomber kills many. Attacks on Police/ police recruits.

11:41am
We just went through Flagstaff! There was SO much snow there! I took pictures, so I'll try and get them up on my picture blog when I get home! It looked like icing, dripping onto the trees... A big fluffy frosting layer!
I'm pretty tired today, 'cause I stayed up last night. I had company though, which I greatly appreciated! It would have been lonely and boring, but instead, because of Daniel (otherwise known as Mr. Math), who stayed up talking to me, even though it was boring for him at times (don't try and deny it!). It was a very sweet thing to do. Now, we're both going to be tired... :-p I think I'm gonna go to sleep for a while...

2:18pm
Ahh...sleep was good, but food was better! :-p We ate at Subway in Page, and now we're in Utah! It doesn't look any different... The rocks here, in this part of the world are incredible! Colors! Shapes! Just amazing patterns! I'll be taking pictures! OOHHH!!!! Water in that little creek! No, it wasn't a CREEK, it was a gushing river! (jk, it WAS a creek...:-p)

2:41pm
SNOW!! More snow, this time though, you can actually see the ground in spots. Snow is so pretty! It's clean, fresh, and just plain BEEEEautiful!
My poor computer keeps getting put in standby! Sad, sad way to work, but it's the only way I can do this! If I just leave it on it'll be dead soon, so...standby it is!

4:28pm
I just drove! Yay! Where we went through had SOOOOO much snow! It was SOOOOO cool (cold really)!! There was 1-2 ft. of snow, and it was smoooooooth!!! It was SO pretty! Makes me want to pack up and move to UT when I can. But, alas! I don’t think I will… :-p
The mountains here, oh! They’re tall, and snow covered! I don’t know why, but I LOVE snow. It just seems clean, and fresh, when nothing else does…same with rain…Hmmm…
We’ll probably stop in northern UT to spend the night, and then go the rest of the way tomorrow. Maybe we’ll make it there tonight, but even if we did, we’d have to go to a motel, so we might as well get a good nights sleep!

6:40pm
As we travel along, it doesn’t seem like we should be gone from home, but we are. Just yesterday, I was at class, which ordinarily would be the first of three days of class, but not this week.
We have 1-2 hours left before we hit Salt Lake City, where we’re going to be staying tonight. It’s not a ‘for sure’ thing, but that’s the plan. Maybe I’ll be ab;le to get online, and post this. Or write a big long email…hmm…
The last place we stopped, there was a lady manning the gas station, with her son there. He was so cute/funny! He’s probably 5-6 something like that, and he was walking around saying “I’m washing the windows”, which of course he wasn’t! Then, he was a persistent cashier, asking my mom if she “want[ed] a bag”. There was a man that bought things before us, wanting cigarettes. And the little boy asked him for ID. “Can I see your ID?” :-p It was SO cute! Gosh! I love kids some days (as long as I don’t have to baby-sit them).
Well, that about sums up the day…







- posted by Rachel @ 9:55 PM