Making Driving Exciting

You can’t have a road trip without having travel days. It turns out to be of very little interest crossing most of Nevada and Utah. While pretty, it becomes monotonous rather quickly. To pass the time as we drove from Reno to Salt Lake City, I decided to let the driver drive and I took a photo every hour. Turns out, the majority of the images verify the lackluster appeal of this drive.

Originally, we had planned to make a straight shot for Grand Teton NP, but decided to make a pit stop in the Uintas of which we heard there was awesome sport climbing. The problem here was that neither one of us had any knowledge of the Uinta Mountains. Problem solved: with about ten hours on the road, and five minutes on the hour every hour taking photos there was plenty of time to call every climbing shop in the Salt Lake City area to track down the seemingly last available guide book, Uinta Rock. Thank you Black Diamond Equipment!

Guidebook in hand, plus an additional hour of driving we arrived in Kamas (the last developed town before heading into the Uinta Mountains). At this point my climbing partner’s sore throat he had been battling/hiding developed into a full-fledged cold, neutralizing the control freak and leaving me in charge of EVERYTHING. Tomorrow should be interesting.

Photo-an-Hour Project:

Road Trip Life Lesson: Thinking a 20-piece chicken mcnugget order at McDonalds would cost effectively satisfy my protein cravings for the day. Error realized somewhere around piece one.