Days 2 & 3

Tuesday morning and I already failed at writing down the time we got on the road! We left Priest Gulch at 9:30-ish. We started out on Highway 145 to Telluride (another beautiful drive), made our way to Moab, with our goal to make it to Provo Utah. Along the way, outside a town named Norwood, a deer walked right out into our lane. I was yelling "Deer! Deer!", Jan was hitting the breaks (a truck pulling a trailer does not stop on a dime) and that crazy deer just stopped and stared at us. Jan honked the horn and luckily the deer ran off. As I was sitting there near heart failure, Jan looked at me and said "You should have taken a picture". I told him I was much more concerned with not killing it, grabbing the camera never occurred to me. He's a man with a new camera - he wants pictures of everything. We rolled into Provo around 4:30 and stayed at Utah Lake State Park. The park is right on the lake and we were surrounded by all kinds of birds - pretty but very noisy birds. We were awakened during the night to the sounds of what we thought was rain but we were wrong, it was the automatic sprinklers watering our truck & trailer. It actually did rain later but we had a good laugh over our "sprinkler bath."

This morning we left Provo at 8:48. Our goal today was to meet Jerry & Nancy in Idaho Falls. As Jerry & Nancy were making their way to meet us, one of their trailer tires clipped the end of a ladder that had fallen in the freeway. It caused a blowout which, in turn, damaged the plumbing for their stove and some of the electrical wiring. They spent Monday in Reno waiting for their trailer to be repaired. Our drive today was uneventful, just more beautiful scenery. We arrived at the Snake River RV Park around 4:00 - Jerry & Nancy arrived about an hour later. We're all excited for what's to come and will head for Montana tomorrow.