VIDEO ON THE LEFT - SKIM OR SWIM AT THE CANYONS
After 4 days of sight seeing i landed in Park City Utah, home of the Sundance film festival and close to the site of the 2002 winter olympic games. I was catching up with Sandy, a mate of mine from uni who i hadn't seen for about 3.5 years as we'd both been travelling in different places at different times - although we worked out that at one stage we were in the same part of Portugal at the same time, which is fairly typical of my organisational skills.
I planned on spending 3 nights up there and ended staying for about 12. Most of the time was spent in one of the following activities - skiing, poker or drinking. One of the boys convinced us to go and play in a poker tournament at a town called Wendover, which i was told was about 1.5 - 2 hours away. What they didn't tell me was this was at an average speed of about 90mph, so i didn't bother filling up before we left. About 65 miles out the fuel light came on, and as
UtahThe Canyons ski resort
we were were driving across the salt flats in the middle of nowhere, there was no servo's until we got to town. Ended up slipstreaming a truck for about 40 miles and limped in to the petrol station.
To get to Wendover you have to leave Utah and cross over in to Nevada, as gambling is illegal in Utah. About 100m over the border is a mini vegas catering for all those mormons with secret gambling addictions. None of us did any good in the tournament but we made the most of the free drinks and left for home about 3 in the morning.
After a relaxing week and a half i headed back to Phoenix, stopping over night in a great little town called Page. The next morning i left from Page to visit the Grand Canyon. This was by far the worst weather i'd had in the 6 weeks i'd been here. There was a little bit of snow combined with winds gusting up to 80kph. It meant that you couldn't stand and admire the amazing views for very long. You basically jumped out, fired off a couple of pic's with the camera then jumped straight
UtahThe Canyons - not a whole lot of snow left
back in to your car. And my timing was excellent - i arrived the day before the opening of the glass bottom walkway that loops out over the canyon. Couldn't have planned it any better.
After 2.5 weeks on the road it was good to be back in Phoenix - if only because it meant i was 2.5 weeks closer to cruising the Caribbean in luxury. Also means i'll finally be able to watch some cricket - am yet to see a game. The U.S is not a good place to be a cricket fan. I've got about another week before i head over to Miami, and i'll post one more update before i go.
Hope everyone is well, send me some emails about what you've all been up to. If any one has an email address for Dougy could they send it to me. Thanks
Hope everyone is well.
Videos from "Skiing in Mormon Country":
UtahThe salt flats of Utah
UtahThe Willow Loop boys
UtahThe little monkey up dancing
UtahThe boys knocked out after a hard night gambling
UtahPellet the porn star.
UtahOne of the other resorts - had a little bit more snow.
ArizonaOn the way to the Grand Canyon
ArizonaAnother big crack in the ground
ArizonaThe Grand Canyon - looks a hell of a lot warmer than it was.
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Hey Crooksy,
Looks great. Those shorts have come in handy haven't they whatever kind of weather. The all weather shorts! What's this about the porn star?????? The country side is amazing I was looking out for Roadrunner somewhere amongst the cracks and canyons. All is good here in Ireland. Had a great easter. Weather has been brilliant for this time of year - Irish standard of course. Keep on enjoying.
Amanda and Pat
Just in case we weren't jealous the first time round!
hey mate. photos look great. where's the photos of ronald? good times buddy. was awesome to see you after all this time. got to do it more often. back in scotland now. been some nice days since i got here a week ago. hope you're having a merry time in the carribean (you bastard). give a shout out to the boys for me. sandy
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