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! ^_^_

[punkinart.livejournal.com]

OMFG, that DOES look like Rohan!

[sannalim.livejournal.com]

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

[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.

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?

[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.