WordCamp - Day 2

We woke up around 7am and started dismantling what we had set up from the day before at Natural Bridges National Monument:

Unfortunately, we did not have time to check out all of what the park had to offer but I plan to come back. There is so much I have yet to see in this area despite having traveled though many times already.

We traveled on Highway 95 to Torrey, UT. The following are pictures from this region (map included at the end):

We stopped in Escalante, Utah on Highway 12 for lunch. We had burger, fries, and shake since it was hot out. With the fries came a special fry sauce that is a combination of thousand island dressing and pickles. Apparently it is unique to Utah and was a new discovery for me. I’ll be stopping there again! Unfortunately, I don’t remember the name of the burger stand but since the town is so small it would not be hard to figure out. The following is a picture of Hell’s Backbone near Escalante:

…and further down Highway 12 is Bryce Canyon (if you use the map above, you can see that Bryce is in the lower left corner):

While traveling the outskirts of a beautiful forest on Highway 14 into Cedar City, Utah, we spotted a forest fire in Zion National Park:

Once we reached Cedar City, Utah. Andy and I decided to part ways. It was not due to a personal dispute of any kind but because Andy had some business requirements that forced him to be in San Francisco Thursday afternoon instead of Thursday evening as I had assumed. He felt that he could reach San Francisco faster by traveling South through Las Vegas rather than cut across Nevada as I had mapped. So I stayed the course and started cutting across Nevada by myself where the roads were much like this:

Little did I know that the next 200 miles would be like that! I would travel though one ancient lake bed, over a hill top, and be greeted by similar terrain on the other side. There was not a soul in sight but I managed to travel 150 miles in an hour and a half maintaining a speed of roughly 100mph the whole time. Despite being extremely desolate, and the fact that if anything happened to me no one would probably figure it out for quite some time, it does have a sort of eerie beauty to it. Like a lunar landscape except not all white and much more shrubbery.

I reached Tonopah, Nevada around 7:45pm (local time) and checked into a Best Western hotel since it had free WiFi and breakfast. I couldn’t find any campgrounds out there but after having been through 200 miles of nothing I figured it was wise to take in some modern comforts.

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