We woke up in Springdale and had to decide how we would get to Torrey. Scenic Utah Route 12, considered one of the best drives in the country, was out of consideration after last night's crack research revealed a 14% grade along the route. Half of that is about all we really want to handle; while 14 isn't totally unreasonable given that vehicles apparently traverse it all the time, we'd rather skip it if given the chance. The Interstate system could have taken us most of the way there, but it we
Another long day took us out from Amarillo, along one of Texas’s unique but no less navigationally infuriating one-way frontage roads to gas and then onto the Interstate. We made good time to Oklahoma City, where we stopped for a Subway to meet Portalfig. I briefly met Protalgif last BrickFair when he showed up for one of the public days, and I encouraged him to attend this year as well if at all possible. My dad regaled us with non sequiturs that nearly had Tagolrip choking on some lettuce, a
We awoke this morning to the promise of a Hot Brown from the Brown Hotel. It was a little past 8:00 when we began getting ready, and we ended up getting there well before ten. The opulent hotel, which dates from the 1920s, remains the capital of swank in the downtown Louisville area despite the miserable decline of the surrounding neighborhood. The Hot Brown: juicy slices of turkey breast covered in succulent mornay sauce and topped with bacon and tomato slices, all held up by an absorbent bre
We walked from our hotel to the REI in the Bend just a short time after they opened at 10:00. Our quest for hiking boots ended successfully an hour later after much trying-on and consideration. Thus armed with three proper pairs of footwear and socks, we felt fully prepared to break them in at Crater Lake. We checked out of the hotel at 11:30, got gas, and headed down the road to Crater Lake. US-97 from Bend to Crater Lake was a miserable experience. Stuck behind drivers going well under the s
We prepared ourselves for an enormous day on the road. We struck out from Moab and cut across what remained of Utah and into Colorado, where we meandered around the strangest bits of road work down to Cortez. We topped off the tank there and refilled our meager snacking supplies before continuing to roll out. Southbound to Shiprock took us into an area of New Mexico to which we have never before been before we swung in a rough arc across the Continental Divide and to Albuquerque, where we inte
Our alarms went off at 4:00 in the morning and we dragged ourselves out of bed as fast as our bodies would let us. The temperature when we left at 4:40 was 73º. By 5:15, we could see the sun as it began to rise behind the clouds to the east as the temperature dropped to 60º. We went through the bottommost portion of the Sierra Nevada range. We passed an immense wind farm after 5:30 and the sun had already heated our surroundings to 81º. With the temperatures expected to get to possible record-
Our early start today took us into Capitol Reef National Park. The park was created primarily to protect a 100-mile long barrier of rock known as the Waterpocket Fold, a unique ridge in the earth's crust. The "capitol" part of the park's name comes from a huge white dome in the park nicknamed the Capitol Dome. With the Waterpocket Fold nicknamed a "reef" by ex-sailor explorers, the two features combined to create the name of Utah's least known National Park—which is good, since they nearly named
We awoke in Memphis at 10:00 and began the process of leaving the hotel, which took until an hour later because of the chronically understaffed valet service. Having determined a much better hotel route should we ever go across I-40 that far again, we left Memphis and navigated its traffic through the suburbs and across Tennessee. Our route today is pretty much the exact reverse of our first two days of the first Great American Road Trip, so in many ways our day today—and our overall I-40 rout
I have recently been informed that people have been PMing various people about the current state of BIONICLE: Year One. I'd like to clarify a few things:
1) It's still going.
2) My acquisition of more memory or a better computer is the only thing stopping me from starting the actual game work.
3) If you have any questions or concerns, PM me. I'm more likely to know what it is you want to know about Year One.
That is all.
I still have not received MOC info from two of the four winners of Blogarithm Contest #1. Since I'm posting them all at once, I need to know your MOC info as soon as possible. Thanks!
(Winners who have sent me their info: you don't need to do anything, except try to guess who hasn't. )
