Getting out of town!

After being back to Winslow from Illinois for about 30 seconds, we are off this weekend for adventure at the Grand Canyon! This is going to become a recurring theme of our time in Winslow-getting out of town!

While we are in town, Keith is working at North Country Healthcare and has been for about a week now-he is generally super bored by just working in the clinic and as with everything in Winslow-it's just kind of lame. The people working there keep telling him that they are recruiting him-but you wouldn't know it if they didn't keep telling him! So far I still haven't met a single person he works with, we have not been invited to anything as simple as drinks-that is not how you recruit-or maybe that is how people recruit and we just got spoiled in Enterprise.....

Ugh, oh well, I'll stop ranting! Be prepared to be inundated with more pictures of the Grand Canyon than you ever wanted to see on Monday!

Champaign bound-for the last time!

Very, very early tomorrow morning we are going to get up and drive to Phoenix so I can fly out to my last weekend at school!

I'm really looking forward to this weekend-not only is it my last on-campus weekend for school before I graduate, I get to see tons of friends, spend what I know is going to be a super fun weekend with Colleen and Randy (the in-laws) and spend some time with Rich and Beth (other in-laws)-I also get to get the hell out of Winslow, AZ-which may be the best thing about this weekend-maybe I should have extended my stay....

Hello Champaign!!

Trying to find the bright side

Let's be straight, to put it lightly-Winslow is a dump. But we're here for the next two months and are going to make the best of it-hopefully.

Our double-wide looks exactly like it did on craigslist

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From Arizona

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There is one main thing that they didn't tell us-the trailer has non-potable water. Yup-we can't drink the water here! We have to buy big ole bottles of water-even BJ gets bottled water. Last time I stayed at a place with non-potable water was in Costa Rica-there is was kind of expected-here not so much.

Keith just informed me that while trying to find a radio station-there were 3 AM stations that simultaneously broadcasting Rush Limbaugh-great....

But good things-it is sunny, warm and pretty-as long as you don't go to town. I got some pretty good sunset shots last night. There is really nothing to do in the town so I have nothing to really distract me from all my school work-still wondering if that's a good thing.

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Well-we're here!

Not quite Winslow, but close enough!

We have made it to Flagstaff-with time to spare before class tonight!

After a beautiful, scenic drive through Utah where we got to watch the sunrise

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We made it to to sunny and warm Arizona.

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We are crashing at Derek and Kathryn's tonight-where not only do they have the internet so I can do class here tonight and cable TV but it is so awesome to see friends!

It's only another 45 minutes to Winslow tomorrow where we pick up the keys to the double wide and set up our temporary house-again!

Another leg of the journey begins

After Keith driving 618 miles we are finally in Springville, Utah-just outside of Salt Lake City. Tomorrow we have about another 450 miles to Flagstaff.

We have been driving is a super packed car, even though we have a storage box and Keith's bike on the top of the car! Poor BJ is stuck in a tiny little corner in the back

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This has been my view for most of the trip

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At least we got to watch a beautiful sunset in Utah-from the car

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Tomorrow we just want to get out of Utah as fast as possible! I have class at 5 p.m.-the goal is to be in Flagstaff at least 15 mins before it starts!

We should probably be packing....

Since we're leaving tomorrow morning for our long drive to Arizona you'd think that we might spend the day getting all of our stuff packed up and ready to go-nope that's not what we did!

We spent most of the day in Imnaha in Hells Canyon by the Snake River. We (Keith) drove 25 miles on some of the roughest roads I've ever been on to go for a super short little over a mile hike to an overlook of the Snake River.

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I really want to go back when we can spend some more time there...but of course make Keith do the drive again!

We also had to stop at the Inmaha Store and Tavern which we had heard was like 'stepping back in time' I have to say it really wasn't-but we still got t-shirts!

In the evening we went to a show at the high school called the Young Americans. Morgan, Craig and Renee's daughter (along with most of the kids in town) was in the show. The show was put on by a group of college age kids and was kind of like a low budget production of an American Idol show with a lot of Glee thrown in. The show itself was cheestastically adorable and all the kids were really talented and clearly had a really great time. It was pretty impressive being in high school gym knowing that just about everyone in town was there to support the arts in this rural community.

Our last day in Enterprise! Tomorrow at this time we'll be in Salt Lake City!

If you ever find yourself in Wallowa County

Here are some things not miss-Keith and I haven't done everything listed-but most of it!

Go to Terminal Gravity Brewing for a buffalo burger and a beer-which we have done all to often-but it is SO good!

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Go to the Book Loft for a book (obviously), coffee, delicious chocolate bars and check out the gallery in the back-all of which Keith still has not done!

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Go to the movies at the OK Theater, which we also didn't get a chance to do...we are just such busy social butterflies!  It's the  second oldest operating theater in Oregon and just recently re-opened.

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Check out the bronze statues in Joseph

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Go to Wallowa Lake

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While you're at the the Lake check out the Tram-which I have to be honest Keith and I never went on-$24 per person when I rode a tram on an almost daily basis in Portland for free-please! But I have heard the view is amazing.

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Pay your respects to Chief Joseph

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Watch a sunset

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Go backpacking in the mountains-there are so many good places to go Keith could not give me just one, but you could backpack into Maxwell Lake, where we hiked a couple of weekends ago-there were a lot of campsites along the lake-just one option!!

Go do a little dancing and karaoke at the Hydrant on Thursday nights-the only place Keith have ever done it!!

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Giggle at the super conservative signs in the area

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There are about a bajillion more things to do....the Wallowa Museum, the libraries (of course!), go to the Lostine Tavern...I could go on and on-like I said a bajillion things. We have to come back because Keith is leaving his kayak here-which I think he's doing just so he knows he can come back here-but that's cool with me!