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Only two more days, and I managed to find… Waking up in Great Basin National Park was just wonderful. Seriously, I’ve loved camping every place I ran into on the entire trip, but this absolutely takes the cake for best campground in general. Friendly folks, sites not too close together, chilly (but not too cold)…

Two weeks on the road, and the next day brought me: A shower and a shave never felt this good. Well, maybe not except for the last time this trip I’d spent four days without them…wow. I do sort of think our society has, in general, an “excessive cleanliness” thing going on at times, but…

The sun rose on Day Thirteen, and I didn’t know I’d experience… Sunrise on Muley Point and the Moki Dugway: only the pictures can even begin to capture it, and even they are a faint excuse for the real thing. A little window of a few tens of degrees out into the world is such…

On the Twelfth Day of Vacation, my true love gave to me… Waking up to eighty-five-degree heat and approximately 100% humidity, next to the Colorado River. Ugh…but a beautiful, beautiful sunrise once again. (I’m seriously starting to wonder if there are ever any other kind.) Sitting down to breakfast at the counter at Smittie’s Steak…

An onward march through Utah… Waking up at dawn next to the lake at Flaming Gorge. Why don’t we watch the sun rise far more often than we do? It really is one of the more profound experiences you can ever have…unlike a sunset, it’s a beginning, not an end, and, whether it’s in the…