Day Two – June 26, 2015
I got to sleep in a smidge while Parrish was off acquiring a
new tire (and some oft unavailable to us Texans, Dunkin’ Doughnuts). We still hit the road by about 8 AM and knew
that it would be a rougher day, as it would mostly be smaller highways, as opposed
to the much easier-to-travel interstates.
We passed Shiprock on our way to Colorado, and after a couple of hours
this other former homestate of ours, including much time stuck in road work
traffic, we were in Utah.
I had been through and to Utah several times over my
lifetime, but had never been through Salt Lake City. Little sidenote here - I converted, briefly,
to LDS (Mormon) in high school and so was curious to see the temple in SLC. Sadly, I wasn’t able to see it as we passed
by on the interstate and there just wasn’t time to stop. We continued on to Ogden and decided to get
some dinner at Denny’s.
Parrish, Ellie, and I headed in to make use of the
facilities and to get a table. More than
five minutes had passed and Mom and Dad still hadn’t come in. We peeked out and saw them fooling with something in the car and shortly after they
came through the door, looking less than thrilled. As it turned out, someone had accidentally
left their brand new camera (they bought it for the trip) on top of the open
cooler lid and it had fallen into the melted ice at some point. Needless to say, it was probably ruined and
would have to be replaced. We were all
worn out. We had intended to get well
into Idaho, maybe even to Boise, for the night, but instead called and looked
around and after some searching found a less than desirable hotel and stayed in
Ogden. Parrish took Ellie swimming and
that was pretty much that!
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