Road trip!

As Dan and/or Tanya so aptly pointed out, I told them I was gonna blog about something and then didn't. So now I shall.

I shall travel to Arizona. Never done that before. But it's looking like it's gonna pan out this week. I work at Timp Wednesday and Thursday, and that's all for this week. The geology work is particularly flexible this week, so that won't be an issue. The only remaining complication would be if Timp puts up the schedule for next week and has me working Monday, but that should be easy to remedy.

So yeah. I discovered the opportunity for this weekend, then Bret said, or rather Lindsey said Bret said, that he also wanted to go to Arizona this weekend. So it will likely be a non-solo trip. It might be, things still seem to be a bit up in the air, but it seems likely this will pan out. So, leave Friday, play in Mesa for a couple days, advance my cause, impress the heck out of any potential in-laws, come back sometime on Monday. Aside from the blazing deadly unbreathable heat, it should be a grand time. And heck, it'll be a good warm-up anyway supposing I go down again in July.

It's a little tricky planning something like this, largely 'cause I haven't any idea what I'm doing. I bought one of those car GPS tricks off of ebay, that should be swell to have around, unless of course Bret already knows the way and is awake. I got my hair cut today, and the barber lady (barbress?) seemed to understand when I explained the need to have that "week-and-a-half after the haircut" look by Friday, so hopefully I'm cute. If I'm going solo, basically my plan is to plug in the GPS, throw some clothes in the back and see where the road takes me. Sweet plan, I know. If Bret and Co are coming, then I'm really not sure how things'll go down, though it'll likely involve fewer regretable college-bachelor type decisions. Ah heck, anybody else wanna come to? I'm sure there's plenty of fun for the whole family down in Arizona. We all know Utah pretty well, a change of scenery can't hurt. And who wants to be in California, that place is gonna break apart and drown any day now! [incidentally, that's not true at all.] If enough of us work together, we're bound to be able to find the right roads!

So just so you know, I'm gonna be away this weekend. If any of you get a call from me asking what to do after missing that left turn at Albuquerque and ending up in Kansas, you needn't wonder now why I'm not sitting safely in Provo.

Ah yes, faithful readers, I live on. I'm sure you're all dying to know what's been going on with me these past months, even though I'm equally sure most everybody who reads this already knows everything, but this post won't actually discuss anything recent. I spent much of yesterday and today making some slideshow videos of my mission. Two are complete. I present to you now my rough draft of a video featuring Jakobsberg (my first area. rough draft because I lack certain pictures I desire and am hoping to get them from the appropriate companions.) and the probably final draft of the more light-hearted half of Malmo (my fifth area) and I hope you heartily approve of both.