about last night.....

this post should make me current with blogging. today as i post it is friday the 18th of july.

right now, we are in vernal, utah.

last night, after our ride down the snake river in jackson, wyoming, we started our way to vernal utah. looking back, i am glad we filled-up at the last station we saw.....we saw NOTHINGNESS for hours going down 191. and when we did think we were hitting a town, it was only a population of 100 or so. no "family" looking food service establishments around. then we stop to fuel-up and ask about food....and there was no power! yikes, talk about living in the middle of nowhere, this felt worse than kansas, or the dakotas for miles of nothing......

so....enter ROCK SPRING wyoming.....we were over the moon thinking we found an arby's, then we spotted a new IHOP. yippeeee! the hostess set the mood for what would unfold for the next 12 hours or so...(mind you, it is like 8:30 pm, and we are eating our first real meal of the day)

she, the hostess, spoke of deer that just lay in the road, horrible curves and danger. about that time, don walked in and said he just spoke to kirk, whi is about 4 hours ahead of us at this time, saying not to take the rest of 191 to vernal at night.

ok....

we are cool with that.

rock springs reminds me a little of some of westvirginia, alllll the roads under constuction, and i swear, for not passing a car in hours.....this town was full of them. crazy busy and dirty looking.

we resolved ourselves to the fact we were getting a room for the night.

WRONG!!!

after hauling the 5th wheel all over rock psrings, checking all the inns, they had no room for us. i even sent josh in and told him to put on his puppy dog eyes...no luck. he thought perhaps we should dirty ourselves up and and try again....by now our running joke/idea of camping in the walmart paking lot became reality!

yep, about 11 pm we settle ourselves in for the night.

at this point, it didn't bother me one bit. josh loved it because he had starbucks coffee this morning and momma went shoppping for food and came back with magic markers for him...he has been drawing all day.

it is hot in vernal.

emmarae hasn't spoken a dozen words all day. she is absorbed in another book. it's fine, cause the day has been long....i am craving pizza. sick of hot dogs......

miss my dogs.....

it all feels like a dream.

tomorrow, i think we are going to moab, utah.

i don't know what kind of internet or even phone service we will have....things you take for granted.

until then, see ya!

Judith