Many apologies for the delayed entries... a LOT has happened in the last week or so, which has left minimal time for blogging, but when you read the next few posts (as they come), you will understand!
We left Washington on Sunday, Oct. 24th in the evening (around 9pm), and drove through the night toward Utah. Sometime around 3am, I awaken, having slept for an hour or so, and instantly notice that Heather is a little on edge... reason being: the needle on the gas gauge is in the red zone, and she hasn't seen any towns, much less any gas stations since I fell asleep! So I pulled out the 'trusty' GPS, only to find that there are absolutely NO gas stations anywhere nearby! As the needle slowly crept closer and closer to the bottom line, and we became more and more nervous about the fact that we have no cell phone service, and roadside assistance probably doesn't even exist out here, we finally spot a sign for a gas station off the next exit! What a relief... right?!? Well, turns out that the 3 gas stations on the main road in this small town are all closed at 3am, so we pull into one, resolved to sleep for a few hours until the place opens. However, at this point we now have a little cell phone service, so I begin googling gas stations in the area and calling every single one to see if there are any 24-hour pumps within a 5 mile radius (because the needle is now below the E line!). After a few unsuccessful attempts and after waking the owner of one of the really local spots, we finally found the ONLY 24-hour station in the entire town- And when we got there, practically coasting in on fumes, the attendant informed us that the next 24-hour station along our route is approximately 75 miles away!! We definitely had angels pushing on the back of the jeep that night...
Once the tank was full, we continued on, through Idaho, (which smells like potatoes, by the way), and watched the sun come up as we crossed over into Utah. On several occasions the song "America the Beautiful" came to mind as we passed by breathtaking sights of purple mountains, amber plains, and everything else that nature creates to make us go, "WOW!!!"
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