Saturday, August 2, 2008 What a great night’s sleep. We were both up by 7:15. I usually close the BR door when I get up and putter of a morning. However, one of the side effects of VIBEing is that as Ken isn’t fighting pain he is ready to get up around 7-7:30 instead of 9-10. Well, we ate, I did some computer input and we headed out about 10. As we got in the pkp I asked Ken if he brought the maps? Nope. I should have known that would prove to be a problem. We went back up toward Woods Landing. We wanted to take some pictures from up there. There is a beautiful ranch setting called Big Creek Ranch.
It appears to be quite an operation. It made a great picture with the Sierra Madre Mountains behind it. Pictures done it was time to go to the book signing. Of course I gave the author’s my shpeel while I got the books signed. 
I also was able to leave material with the president of the Museum Board. I even told her I would help her this winter with some ideas. She told us the Market in town made a mean deli sandwich so we whipped it up there to get one. The market has had lots of tender loving care. So bright and clean and Penny was right – the sandwich was divine. We then headed to Centennial, Wyoming. It didn’t take long for us to be grateful we had bypassed this road with TB. There was 10 miles of a 7% climb and over 10 miles of 7% going down to Centennial. What an awesome drive. We kept pointing out places to stop and take pictures. We turned on the cell phone to see if we had service as we entered Centennial.
We did so I called Ronnie to tall him we got a book signed for him. He told us where he & Bev lived in Saratoga and where Bev’s folks lived. He also told us how they used to go “celebrate” at the Ten Mile Inn.
We made sure we got pictures of that to give him. We couldn’t remember of the Saratoga Muesum closed at 4 or 5 so hurried down the mountain just in case it was 4. We slid into the parking lot at 3:45. Yup, they closed at 4. I did my thing and I headed to the store for AAA batteries. When I came out Ken was studying a map and wanted to navigate back to Riverside the “scenic” route when the map assured us we would see “wildlife”. However, said map didn’t have any road numbers on it. (We vowed to tell Carbon County that was a mistake.) We would come to a fork in the road and kind of “flip” to decide on a direction. We figured we couldn’t get shot for trespassing if we stayed on a “county” road. Ken studied the map and we went in the “general” direction we wanted to go. We figured, what the heck we’d eventually come out onto Hwy 230 – even if it was tomorrow. The road kept deteriorating as we wandered through the foothills. Heh, heh, heh! Ken said, “You know, I’ve got to look under this pkp to make sure we have a spare.” OGAG!! You’re just thinking of this now? I sure hope Onstar works if we need it! It didn’t work all the time last night. We drove 27 miles to make it back to Riverside. (On the highway it would have been 17 miles.) Did we see wildlife? Well, two sand cranes, three deer, a red digger and 5 antelope. So the trip wasn’t a bust in that category. Yes, we have a spare tire. Will go to church in the morning, do computer work so it will be ready to send or publish when we get internet and do laundry. We will probably take a drive up toward Baggs to the Edison Memorial. This is where Thomas Edison came up the the light bulb idea when he was fishing. Need to check this out. Note to self: Get CJ Box’s first book and put it on the mp3 player to listen to as we drive. Ronnie said to NOT read them out of order. Yes siree, Bro!
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