Road Trip!

Last week was a wonderful week. The painting got hung, the party held, and the road trip traveled.

I can't think of a time in my life where I have ever experienced a more perfect week. Nothing even comes close. This will be the week I use as the definition of "happy" from here on out.

Step onto my Cloud 9 for a bit.


The painting is spectacular! It seems as if has always been here - as if its home was truly meant to be. Its history is rich with disovery, friendship and love. I admire it and its creator.


My little Miata was our adventure machine and plucky it was.


First hauling 12 foot long 1x4 beams from the lumber store to make the painting frame, then hitting 100,000 miles on the trip as it ticked off the miles to Southern Utah. It took the desert back roads as if it were a 4WD. We did much of our trip with the top down, taking in the last vestiges of summer/fall. I love this car - it has been a dream. Thanks car for being so wonderful to me for all these years!

We returned to snow today in Utah Valley, but the trip gifted us 50 - 70 degree weather. Only one rain squall challenged the trip and in return for it's 15 minutes of interruption, provided us with a spectacular desert rainbow framing the beautiful red bluffs in Goblin Valley. I have never seen a rainbow end to end until this trip - and it was a double one at that.



We saw many, beautiful, breathtaking and conversation inspiring petroglyph and pictograph panels from the Barrier Canyon and Fremont Indians. It was interesting and amusing to note the individual artistic elements and/or weave stories about what the artist was trying to tell us. We wondered if the panels were journals or instruction manuals or if the images were shamanic or chemically induced visions. Many of the Fremont images were pecked over the Barrier images..much like our current day graffiti sometimes is. (We're talking 500 years or so between the works.) Both of us have Native American blood running in our veins, so cavorting with our ancestors was moving.

We hiked and climbed and laughed and talked for days on end. We checked email, used our GPS and compared iPhone applications together in the most unlikely places. We got lost, we figured it out. We made plans, we changed them.

As two very busy professionals we truly "got away from it all" (iPhones excepted) and had a blast!