Quick trip to town

There is no such thing as a quick trip to town from here.......Here's how it happens.

First, you get up early..6AM and get on the road by 6:30 or 7. Drive 45 miles to get to Jacob Lake and then another 32 miles or so to get to Fredonia. (This morning a log truck had tipped its second trailer over and lost all the logs so that was a slow go there for a bit.) In Fredonia you can get gas at $4.29 a gallon (I got mine at $3.33 in the Park before I left). You can also get lottery tickets and other things that gas staion convenience stores offer. You can get a motel room and if you can catch the only resturant open, a meal. We continue on through town to go to breakfast in Kanab, UT. only 7 miles more. Then we come back to Fredonia and take a right to go to St. George.

I had a podiatrist appointment at 1:30 (UT time-different from AZ time) in St. George, UT and after stopping in Kanab, UT for breakfast we get there 1 hour early, just enough time to fill out paperwork and look around abit. I love this Dr.! He took very good care of my feet and made casts of my feet for new arch supports, I'm a very happy person by the time I leave his office. Of course when I go and buy the shoes he has recommended I take a deep breath at the price, but they feel soooooo good!

So, Gary and I decide that we deserve a night in a hotel and go to Holiday Inn. Very nice. We get all checked in and then go to find the movie theather. We have missed the movie we want to see by half an hour, oh well ,lets just go cruz'n around town. Never did find another theather but did find Olive Garden so we stop for some supper. Yummy! We continue to drive around and now feel comfortable that we can find most things so back to the hotel we go.

Very nice nights sleep. We get up and go to the Palms Resturant in the hotel and was thourghly disappointed. They failed the Keysar surprise shopper test! My order was all wrong and Gary's was half wrong. Yes, we did fill out the comment card!

So now I have a Dr. appointment in Kanab at 11AM for my test results from last week. We get there just in time! But great news...all my counts are right on the $$, right where they should be. Dr. Hernan tells Gary "looks like she'll be around at least another 30 years!"

Is the day over? Can we go home now? NO! Now we have to continue to Page, AZ to get our prescriptions from Walmart that we missed getting by 2 minutes last week.

So off we go. We have been on the road about 20 min. when we hear this really loud engine and a HUGE shadow pass over us!! It's a C130 military cargo plane about 50-75 feet above us going the same direction as us. (Good thing too, cause I'm sure we both would have peed our pants if we had of seen it coming at us that low!) Our first thoughts were of course-is he going to crash? But no he just keeps going following the road to Page. He dissapears in a couple of minutes and we never see it again. We stop at the BLM Visitors Center about 20 min. later and that guy never heard a thing. Finally we make it to Page and stop for a bite and then go to Walmart. We get our prescriptions and a few other things and NOW we are on our way home.
125 miles later (and about 30 deer) we reach the RV and unload the car. Finally home, sweet home! But the price of gas here in the Park is now $3.99!




















That was our weekend, how was yours????