The lake is made of salt.

[jackshoegazer]

I have arrived in the Great Salt Lake. Okay, actually, I'm in the city surrounding the lake. We pop out of a series of winding mountainous roads a suddenly the whole city looms ahead.

I'm skipping dinner and going to sleep right away. My hotel is great and I'll partake of their deluxe breakfast. After breakfast tomorrow, I can't eat until after my surgery on Monday.

Although driving so many hours has been wearing, it's been good. The country here is beautiful. Catching up with my dad has been good. I've gotten to hear what the first few years of my life were like; I filled him in on some of my exploits as a teen he never knew (the sit-in, the suspensions, the school board meetings, the underground newspaper...) It's been revealing and healthy.

Sleep beckons, dear reader.

Comments

[kiwikat.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you've been having a good journey. Sounds like you guys are really connecting, it must be such a gift to have the time and the inclination to talk like that. Quite a road trip for your first cross-country jaunt.

Isn't Nebraska an asshole? That thing is at least twice as wide as it needs to be. : ) But there's nothing like that first glimpse of mountains on the horizon.

[elizawrites.livejournal.com]

Best of luck! I can't wait to hear from you after the surgery.

[zas.livejournal.com]

Welcome to my city! Best of luck with everything!

[antarcticlust.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you had a good trip as a lead-up to the Big Event - I can't think of a more fitting way for this trip to happen (at least, if I can't be there).

My weekend with my dad was not nearly as cool.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry your dad's visit was crap. That woman sounds terrible. Of course, my trip wouldn't have been as cool if my father's wife had come :P

[jesuslovesbono.livejournal.com]

underground newspaper? cool.

btw, did you drive through Iowa?