Summer Utah trip, day 1: The mountain is out
Let’s take advantage of the temporarily functioning internet connection and report on the trip thus far.
BT2 (before Thing Two), Team Gimlet had the Seattle-Utah route down to a well-coordinated, thirteen-hour drive: we have favorite truck stops, favorite rest areas, and so on. But with a baby, everything takes … longer. Thing Two was a pretty good passenger, provided we made frequent stops. Thirteen hours became sixteen, and we rolled into Cache Valley just before midnight with a back seat occupied by a pair of zombie Things.
Highlights of the trip included a rare sighting of both Mount Saint Helens and Mount Rainier, a rare enough occurence that we weren’t the only car pulling off at the Selah rest area for photos. We drove through the Snake River canyonlands around Twin Falls at sunset, which was gorgeous, but alas, there were no pullouts. And one advantage of this long, late drive was the vast canopy of stars over Sweetzer Summit, the likes of which we city folk rarely get to see. We were also lucky enough to see one perfect, brilliant shooting star.
