Road Trip I

[tealin]

Great glorifying praises to the diety of digital cameras – despite all the twists of fate to befall mine, I managed to get the pictures off it!




I'm not a very good photographer, but here goes...

Rohan - On the way down, we drove past an area that looked like it could have been used in LotR. That movie is one of the few things that can make me homesick for Utah. ... Okay, it's the only thing.
Thunderstorm - Near Beaver, UT ... I like thunderstorms. This one didn't actually have much lightning but it was impressive just the same.
Clacks Tower? - [dork alert!] Taken from under the thunderstorm above, after we drove through it. Come on, a cell tower is practically a clacks tower! It's even got a ladder!
Cliffs - On the way to the Tuacahn Ampitheatre near St George. It's a great big theatre set up at the end of a box canyon, surrounded by tall red cliffs. We saw Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat there – I've seen many productions of it but this was probably the biggest and definitely the most ... unique.

Day two will have more pictures, I promise... including [drumroll] The MAD GREEK!

Comments

[canisdoofus.livejournal.com]

Oohhh! I wanna go to Utah! :-(

And YES! The deity of digital cameras is a mighty, ominpotent supreme being, one with a particularly keen sense of humour. Oh the many happy moments of Blackmail I owe to thee, Oh Deity of Digicam!!! :-P

And thanks for making me feel better about myself in that I'm not the only one who drives around armed with a Memory Stick looking for locales of potential fictional aesthitic significance! ^_^_

[tulanoodle.livejournal.com]

Yes, but she doesn't mention that it was about 114 degrees out. Gaaah. Good, place to visit, but not to live. It certainly was pretty though. Some parts looked a lot like Australia.

[canisdoofus.livejournal.com]

True, but I'm in Florida. So I'm used to the heat. ;-) And the humidity down here can be cut with a butterknife.

But i don't think I could live in Utah, either. Still, it's pretty!

[tulanoodle.livejournal.com]

Aaaaah pretty florida. At least you have got lots of vegitation there and things will actually grow. Everything here dies unless you water it every day for hours.

[canisdoofus.livejournal.com]

True, we do have vegitation...as my eleven mango trees can attest to that. But we hurricanes to thank for that vegitation. ;-P

But thanks! Yes, Florida does have its aesthetic virtues! ^_^

[hlfchcknhlfsqrl.livejournal.com]

dude, i can't wait to leave florida. i've lived here for 13 years.... god i hate it.

[canisdoofus.livejournal.com]

Why??? I love it here! And I've lived here a whole decade longer than you have.

[punkinart.livejournal.com]

OMFG, that DOES look like Rohan!

[crypticidentity.livejournal.com]

Ditto.

And Joseph is definitely unique... I've only seen the video, but that basically IS on stage.

[(Anonymous)]

Joseph rocks. I saw it onstage with Donny Osmond...and I have the movie...and I was in it when it came to my youth theatre......

[sannalim.livejournal.com]

You're from Utah? Really? Me, too!

[(Anonymous)]

Hey, I'm from Utah too. Sometimes the heat is a bit of a setback... whew! And then the cold in the winter too... It love all of the moutains though, I live right on the Wasatch Front.

Me too

[(Anonymous)]

So do I. I love living in Utah; the change of seasons, the wonderful neighbors, the milkshakes. Mmmm Iceberg. The good influence on your two daughters who leave town at the first opportunity and leave you and their mom and the three cats all alone while they are of having fun, gallivanting all over some cosmopolitan city . . But I digress.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you never went to school there.

[tulanoodle.livejournal.com]

Amen sister.

So. . . what period do you have seminary? Sinner.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Going straight to hell, I am ... vampire Catholic.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Well, I lived in Utah for several years, but since I moved there most of the way through my childhood, I was never 'from' there in the eyes of the residents, and I never really assimilated ... so am I 'from' Utah?

[canisdoofus.livejournal.com]

Not until you draw a characature of Brigham Young ;-)

[poisonedwriter.livejournal.com]

Ah, I love thunderstorms. Especially when they might get you out of Marching Band practice...

I've been to Arizona, and it is gorgeous.

[veronikamg.livejournal.com]

I wonder what it would have been like to grow up somewhere hot. A little twist of fate stopped the mother's side of my family from becoming Aussies, so instead I was born as me in icy cold Norway. Utah looks pretty.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

I only took pictures of the pretty parts. ;)

[tulanoodle.livejournal.com]

Yeah, don't let it decive you. Suburbia isn't pretty no matter how you shoot it. Unless you shoot it with an A-bomb and plant some trees after the radiation goes away ;)

Why Wait?

[(Anonymous)]

If you plant the trees while the radiation is still around you get some pretty interesting looking trees.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

And really big fruit ... how is this a bad thing?

[sparrowofjack.livejournal.com]

It would be radioactive, that's how ;-)

I wonder if you could create new fruits? Like, mix a banana, an orange, and an apple to get a mushy, yet juicy fruit, hardy enough to survive a Canadian winter. People would come from miles around to taste the unique fruit of Utah's... bapplange tree.

O.o

[amandagrazini.livejournal.com]

I-CAN'T-BELIEVE-YOU-HABE-A-LJ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*adds just now*

whee!

[(Anonymous)]

Special! I live in Utah. Near civilization, though. I used to live in St. George, but then we moved to Orem, three hours away. Just incase any of you were wondering. I'm sure this interests all of you deeply, seeing as I've added my comments many times before this. Anyways, nice pictures. They're quite pretty in comparison to the rest of the deserts. Which are ugly. WHEE.

Ha, I don't suppose you are "from" Utah until you draw a characature of Brigham Young, no?

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Orem: Land of Helquist. [cue heavenly chorus]

I'm sure there are lots of people 'from' Utah who have not drawn a caricature of Brigham Young. But to qualify as a citizen (statizen?) of the state, he probably has to be in the top 5 of Historical Figures You Would Like to Meet.

[canisdoofus.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but drawing is your life's passion. If you truly were from Utah, and have spent your youth being indoctrinated...errr...listening to the epic tales of Brigham Young and his leading people to find Jesus in a salt bed, you would have drawn him at least once...even if he were a doodle in your junior high history textbook.

I've drawn Juan Ponce de Leon enough times in too many history textbooks. But 'twas not in vain: I ended up making history an academic career. :-p I guess Johnny PdL wouldbe #5 on my list, which might make me a true Floridian. Of course, Boney would be #1 HANDS DOWN! :-D

[ubiquitouspitt.livejournal.com]

Wow! Roh-- er. Utah! Is very beautiful. In that one picture. And I promise to speak no more good of it in your presence.

I do not like thunderstorms (though I am fond of heavy warm rainstorms). We drove under a funnel cloud on our way to the Eric Johnson concert. I am still surprised my heart didn't simply... explode in my chest. Thunderstorm. Not concert. Well. Concert. But I was commenting on the pervasive effects of the... thunderstorm... I.

I'll stop here, I think.