blog week 12

#1

Sometimes things happen that reminds us that there are good people in the world, and not everyone is out to take advantage of someone.

Windy and I were in Island Park, Idaho last week.  It is about as out there as you can get.  4 hour drive at 80mph from Salt Lake City.  There is not a lot there.  We rented a cabin and drove to Yellowstone a few times, and on the day we were go back to SLC, we had a rental car whose rear right tire was about flat.  8am!

There are three things in Island Park near our cabin, a Phillips 66 gas station, a whole lot of high country, and a place called  The Repair Shop next door to the gas station.  I had no clue where the next ...anything was, and we had a long, remote, high speed drive ahead.

Enter Tayson at the Repair Shop.  He knew our problem, and he fixed it right away.  No wait, no fuss, and only $20 to get us going when it would have been easy to charge us $100.   I am pretty handy, but now one is when it's that much of a road game.

We will never forget the kindness given to us that day from good people, from good country!

#2

I love to find funny businesses and sometimes the diverse things one place can do.  Years ago in my hometown of Berea, there was the Berea Laundromat and Deli.  And this week when Windy and I were on vacation in Idaho, we found this gem in Lava Hot Springs, population 407.  The Royal Hotel and Pizzeria.

Its about perfect.  Delicious pizza, and then a place to lay down after!  Now before you think this could not possibly be good, it was.  VERY good.  And it's been there for 105 years!  In small towns you have to be many things to many people, and that is what this was!  Place was packed and the pie was great!

Plus, we learned that a small squeeze of lemon on a pizza slice is delish!  And it was.  When in Lava Hot Springs, Idaho, do as they do!


#3

Why is it that there are some things you just have to do?  While out west on vacation, we saw a bevy of Sinclair Gas Stations. Windy and I were getting ready to take a tour of Salt Lake City, and I saw the station with it's iconic green Brontosaurus Dinosaur!  (It's actually a Apatosaurus)  She immediately got out her phone, smiled and rolled her eyes.

Yeah, I wanted a pic and I got one.  I know it wasn't Mount Rushmore, or the Grand Canyon, or even The Bob's Big Boy.  But it had to be done.  And truth be told if there was a Big Boy handy, I would have done that too.  We all seem to like taking pics at certain areas for unknown reasons.  Like the new Cleveland signs,  You see one, you take one, it's just as simple as that. And as you can see, I have one of those too.

And that's all well and fine, but it's no Sinclair Green Dinosaur....