First thing in the Morning:

This now our roughly seventh conversation with the roadside assistance folks at Budget, they assured us that they would be out there first thing in the morning to look at our complaints. Perhaps as early as 6am. At 10:30 we stumbled outside to greet them and the guy warned us that we shouldn’t have been driving on that other tire….yeah, the one that we wanted replaced 150 miles ago or so. When he pulled off another tire the braking mechanism crumbled to the ground like a kid losing at jacks. But no worries because he said we didn’t really need that brake so replacing it was not necessary. We did score a third new tire however and were on the road by at least 3:30 or something early like that. That night we got to see the meteor shower from the truck and while Dave misses everything, he was able to see a few including the super cool exploding one. Luckily we were able to make it to Ogden Utah because the Cherry festival was in town and that seemed to bring out the best in people. One guy at an Arby’s even offered us a phone book in lieu of the directions he couldn’t give us to find the highway that he works 4 miles from. We tried calling the highway but it was busy intersecting with an onramp …yeah that was bad but I couldn’t help myself. Anyway, who gives you a phone book to find a highway. This was also the town where the pictures disappear from your camera and the hotel rooms are made of glass like a pet store. We solved the picture mystery in time but I still couldn’t tell you why they thought it was a good idea to build puppy displays for hotel rooms. Later that day we arrived in Moab Utah. Fortunately there were no camping spots left and very little in town either. We were offered a tiny triangle that was basically a speed bump on a corner of the racetrack that winds around the perimeter of the campground. We were tempted but thought we might as well just set the alarm clock instead of opting for the Goodyear wake up call.