It's Hot

Well, made it past Yosemite and through Nevada and into Utah. As I was coming over the border, I heard on the radio that the whole state was under a severe thunderstorm warning. And sure enough, as I got into the border town of St. George, I could see these massive thunderstorms to the northeast. As I was driving I saw 10 lightening strikes in the national forest to the north and east. I ended up at a Utah state park, which unbeknownst to me is also the local redneck summer lake hangout.

away that had just started. There were probably ten or so spotter planes and air tankers all flying around these two fires. Combined with the big blaze on the California/Arizona border (IBut as I was making dinner there were two fairly large wildfires burning about a couple of miles can see the smoke up here from that one) it was a pretty gorgeous sunset. The firefighters managed to put one of the fires out, but the larger one was stile going when I went to bed. Overall, I like the geography of Utah, but not the state parks division. For some reason, they don't take out-of-state checks. And their roads are shitty.

I'm heading into Zion today, so I'll have some pictures of that for you all. Depending on when I'm done with interviews (either monday at 2 or sometime tuesday) I'll be heading back up after that. Peace.