Road Trip

Wow! It's taken me long enough to finish writing about Boston, huh? I can't believe what a procrastinator I am. It's awful. Anyway, I guess my next project should be to write about the next trip I took, which was a road trip to Yellowstone.

A couple of weeks after I got back from Boston, I wanted to go up to Idaho to pick up Chris from school at BYU-Idaho. He doesn't have a car so I wanted to drive up and help him get his stuff back home to California. Chris and I figured we might as well make a trip out of it, so we decided to go to Yellowstone, which is only 2 hours from Rexburg (where he goes to school). I'm not a big camper, but I figured it would be fun if I had some people with me who knew what they were doing. So I tried to round up some campers. Nobody can commit to anything these day, so it ended up just being Me, Chris, Mikey (my cousin's son), and Dennis (the famed and wonderful non-blood family member). Since Dennis lives in Utah, it was just Mikey and me for the road trip up there.

Day 1

The drive wasn't very eventful, but it wasn't bad either. We made it to Utah in a day and stayed with Dennis. We slept good that night. Day 2. In the morning, Mikey and I visited with some friends I have up in Utah (like Rebekah, my roomie from Mexico). Then Mikey and I drove the Alpine Loop with Alyssa (one of my other roommates in Mexico). The drive was beautiful, I had never seen it in the summer. Only in the fall when all the leaves are their different colors.

That night, we went to Salt Lake City with Alyssa, Courtney Roberts, and Lauren and Caity (two sisters who live in Provo and used to be my neighbors at the Bountiful Court). We had fun and saw one of the visitor's centers, but didn't get to stay for long.

Day 3

On day 3, we woke up and packed Dennis's truck up with all our camping gear and headed for Idaho to pick up Chris. The drive seemed long, especially with Dennis driving. It's funny watching him drive. He's normally such a calm, laid-back person. But when it comes to his car and driving, he's a whole new man. You'll see later about how he does with dirt in his car. In the meantime, I will tell you that he has road rage. He doesn't yell, but he calls names. I can't even tell you how many times I heard someone called a "dillhole" during this trip.

As we were driving behind a truck (that was driving just a little too slow), Dennis said, "Have you ever had a smudge on your windshield and used it as a laser to blow up the stupid people in front of you?"

I had to hold back a laugh since I was mad at him at the moment and didn't want him to know that he made me smile. But I was holding back my laugh for 5 minutes.

Finally, we got to Rexburg and packed up the back of Dennis's truck with all of Chris's stuff, since he was moving out of his apartment. Then we hit Walmart for food and last minute camping supplies. Because it was late, and we didn't have reservations for Yellowstone till the next day, we drove out into the middle of nowhere to camp for the night. Chris wanted to show us these ice caves, so we camped right near them so we could see them in the morning.

That night, we set up our tent for the 1st time. It was wobbly and we just knew we must had done something wrong, but we dealt with it since it was only for one night.