Z is for....

When I was growing up, we took regular trips to Utah to visit family.  I can remember getting up at o dark thirty in order to beat the heat.  Pffft yeah right.  I don't think Las Vegas ever gets below 90.  I digress.  When I was a kid, the I-15 did not go straight through from CA to UT the way it does now.  When I was a kid, you had to drive through all the little towns in Utah.  All the little towns, that are no longer little and you can totally bypass on the I-15. 

We always did our trip in one day.  Ugh!  Looking back, I wonder how my mom stood that.  I wouldn't.  I would drive to St. George and stop for the night.  Or maybe Mesquite.  But no, we went ALL. DAY. LONG.  And my dad didn't stop unless he had to for gas and for eats.  We didn't get out, stretch, run, look around.  We stopped, peed, and got right back on the road.  So we played lots of travel games.  One such game is the Alphabet game.  How apropos since this is the last of Alphabae-Thursday until school resumes!  In this game, in case you haven't played it or your rules are different, we looked at Billboards, road signs, big rig trucks and license plates to find all the letters of the alphabet.  We always tried to time it right...because there is a road out in the Mohave Desert that is way after Barstow and before Nevada....

Yep...that is really the name of the road!  I always thought of it as the last road in CA.   For more info on Zzyzx Road...go here.

This portion of the post was brought to you by the letter Z

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Now...it's time for two truths and lie!

I am really enjoying this meme.  If you haven't joined up with me, or The Drama Mama before...  it's real fun and gets people coming back.  Cause hey, they want to know the truth!  Each Thursday we tell two truths and one lie.  Then the following week we come clean and start over again.  So last week I said:

1.  I was once lost in the mall:  True.  The whole family was out shopping.  Gees even my dad??  It doesn't seem possible.  He's a total homebody.  I digress.  Everyone was looking at something, but I saw what every girl dreams about:  SHOES!  I love shoes!  I wasn't lost really, I knew where I was.

2.  I was once lost in the mountains.  True.  In our regular journeys to Utah we would always go camping.  Again, even with pictures, I can't believe my dad did this.  Haha.  Well one time, my cousin who is two years younger than me asked if we could go for a walk.  His family came to the canyon all the time, so really he knew his way.  He was six I think.  I was eight.  I think.  I guess I was lost and confused as to where he was leading me, so I freaked out and went back the way we had come.  Makes sense right?  I remember him begging me not to.  I went anyway.  He was in trouble.  I was lost.  A man found me.  He walked me up the river and back to my camp site.  That is what I remember.  I was crying.  The Lord watched over me that day...and many more to come.  He looks down at me, and just says, "she's special" You know in that whispered voice..."special"  Yeah that is me.  I have a horrible sense of direction.  Much like my poor dad whom I have horribly picked on this post.  I am cursed with his sad sense.  Haha.  

I was once lost in the zoo.  Nope.  Not ever.  It occurred to me early on, that I should not have chosen ZOO as it is the letter Z today. Haha.  

Now for some truthin' and lyin'

1.  I have been on a helicopter

2.  I have been on a ship

3.  I have been on twin prop plane