Kevin & his parents got up early to take Carol to the Twin Falls airport - she had to be there by 8:30am. Thankfully, they et let me sleep in. I got out of bed at 9:30 & had showered & eaten breakfast by the time they got back at 10:15.
Then it was odd off to the mountain!
They took me up to Mount Harrison, which is over 9000 ft high! I think that's the highest I've ever been without being in an airplane! LOL! The view from up there was just spectacular, like I was standing on top of the world.
You can read more about Mount Harrison here (sorry, can't do html via the phone, mutter):
http://www.summitpost.org/mountain/rock/153871/mount-harrison.html
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On the way down the mountain we stopped at Lake Cleveland, a beautiful clear alpine lake.
Of course I have pics of all this & will post a link to Flickr as I get them uploaded. Kevin's gonna give me all of his pics, too. He doesn't do Flickr, so I'll post them to my account.
After that, we stopped for lunch at the Sage Mountain Grill in Albion, then came back to the house for a few minutes before heading out again.
This time, we went out to see the wagon tracks from when the covered wagons followed the Oregon Trail. While there, we also saw a flock of beautiful white pelicans and a lovely meadowlark. It's really amazing how pronounced the wagon ruts still are, after more than 100 years of vegetation growth & human development. We got some good pics of the ruts, too.
After the ruts, we came back to the house & Kevin & I both crashed, napping for about 1.5 hours.
Dinner tonight was at The Upper Crust Bakery & Grill restaurant.
Now we're back at the house & I'm going to bed. I'm sunburnt & have developed a bit of a cough, so I hope I'm not getting sick!
Tomorrow's plan is to hit the road at about 8:30 & see how far we get. I'm thinking Winnemucca, but Kevin is thinking Lovelock or even Fernley. We're planning to have lunch with his cousins in Grass Valley on Thursday.
Oh yeah, about my phone: today my phone stopped sending emails twice & I had to delete & re-create my setup to make it work again. It's definitely the phone & not my mail host since I can send from my laptop or via my browser at mail2web.com with no problem. Annoying!! I need to visit the AT&T store when I get home anyway for some other (unrelated, I think!) issues, so I'll ask them about it then. I *think* I've noticed a pattern: if I create an outgoing message and try to send it, but lose the connection before it goes, then something gets fubar'd & it refuses to send that message or any others ever again, the only solution being to delete & re-create the account. It makes no sense, but that's the behavior I've noticed. Before going to the store, I'll look up the issue online to see if there's a simple fix I can do myself.
Anyway, that's it; time for bed. Good night!
-Michèle (sent via mobile phone)
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