The Yarrow Hotel Park City

So ha. Some of you have chided us for the dangers of picking up strangers, yet now it is us who may teach you a lesson. Nathan, the friendly stranger, needed a ride to Joe's Valley to go meet some climbing friends of his who knew a bit more about the area. Well, when Saturday morning comes around, Nathan and his friends show up at our campsite with their jeep and invite us along to a place called New Joe's ...

... note for "DOMENY". It said our room number and "Please us eonly one bed since you booked for one queen." The room had two doubles. Weird.<br><br>The trip TO Utah was cool, though. We drove through the Mojave desert. We drove down the Vegas Strip and decided we don't need to return. We crossed the borders of 4 states.<br><br>It begins.

... P<br><br>So we finally left, had to pick up people at Rowland Heights, and then stopped at Barstow for "Happy Hour". Oh man! and another thing, to get everyone's attention, the tour guide said, "Cuckoo! Cuckoo!" in his happy voice. I gotta say, although this sounded ridiculous and funny, his cuckoo sound definitely got everyone's attention! :) Our next stop was lunch at Las Vegas! Whoo! We ended up eating together, all 60 of us, at a Chinese Buffet for $10. Not ...

... is in our face, about 30mph plus that really took the starch out of our legs right off the get go. A very demanding day where we had inches to ride on or in the heavy truck traffic or off the side for a long tumble. At mile 40 we start the steeper climb to Soldier Summit 7,447' around 6 miles and it starts raining. When we get to the top we are soaked and cold now ...

So i went and rode ATV's in the sand dunes of Utah, a place called little sahara, about an hour and a half from salt lake or so, professionals go here, and this was my first time going to go ride in sand... it was crazy!! had a blast though, and i did well for my first time, at least i think so... I edited and made a cool movie out of the video's i took, so enjoy the videos and photos!

... for dear life. Luckily the keys hadn't fallen out of the tube when I tried to land on top of it previously but unfortunately I can't say the same for one of my flip flops. :-( The rest of the ride goes pretty well, although before the bridges I head for the grassy knoll to go around them. I'm not sure when the last time they went to this exit point, but it definitely was not grassy. Till I was done I managed to avoid any more mishaps and made it to the exit point at the end. Which was ...

... to walk away, then came back and asked me if I had a couple minites to go to his vehicle with him - 80 and recovering from surgery - why not - Ben was just inside and there were other people outside. We wandered around the corner to his truck - new maybe Lincoln truck. He unlocked it, reached in the back seat and pulled out a a bundle of UStwo dollar bills. Handed them to me and said they were mine ...

Ok, at Sundance Derek got to walk the red carpet of his new movie 'Wierdsville', and then he did Questions and Answers in front of the opening night audience. The photo shows him standing to the left of Scott Speedman and Wes Bently. Then we got drunk.

... life doing that very thing. How many people do you know that say "I always wanted to do that," then come with some rambling excuse about money or time or whatever else. Excuses don't matter. You can see a Dateline story of him here. I met him when he came to speak at our school. My dad and I took him to Nine Mile Canyon near Price and he gave me a brain coral he got while scuba diving (is that legal? I always wondered) some sunken ...

... they were crazy to go out there with the lightning, but I guess their tour bus driver told them they would be O.K. We sat in the truck and ate our lunch when the rain suddenly turned to hail. The hail was about the size of marbles and we were so glad to be watching this from the safety of our truck. We left the park after lunch and we still did not see any of them running back to the bus. We hoped that they found shelter from the storm. Always respect Mother Nature. Sunday ...