{"id":118,"date":"2009-01-09T16:01:01","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T23:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whatup.brantct.com\/?p=118"},"modified":"2009-01-09T16:01:01","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T23:01:01","slug":"utah-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatup.brantct.com\/?p=118","title":{"rendered":"Utah Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The car is in the closest spot from the desk.\u00a0 It was a nice blue color.\u00a0 We throw our stuff in\u2026\u00a0 it is a wagon like thing.\u00a0 I am driving (read first class wine&#8230;) and Marlo is to navigate with the laptop and gps.\u00a0 She has never used the software and she is not patient with computers (actually with anything), it was blizzarding out , and we had no clue where we were going.\u00a0 I declared a no-joke event until we got on our way and knew where we were going.\u00a0 Well that never really happened.\u00a0 ALL of the roads signs were obscured by the snow that the plows pushed out.\u00a0 There was 6 inches of snow on the highways and we could not see any signs.\u00a0 We were VERY glad that we had all wheel drive!!!\u00a0 The snow got worse and so did the roads.\u00a0 It is a REALLY good thing that we had GPS.\u00a0 The problem is that were we were going to a newly developed area so my gps did not have an exact location.\u00a0 Fortunately my girlfriend is smaaart.\u00a0 We whip out the cell phone with VZ navigator and zero in to where we need to get the keys.\u00a0 After that we have to find the actual condo.\u00a0 Well neither the computer or vz navigator is working for us.\u00a0 AND we had written directions AND there was snow everywhere AND lots of it was not even plowed.\u00a0 If we had two wheel drive we would have not been happy at all!!!\u00a0 So the smart one mentioned that food might be good so we go looking for some.\u00a0 The McDonalds\u00a0 was long since closed and even\u00a0 the taco bell.\u00a0 This is Mormon country.\u00a0 Marlo says that a gas station is probably our only chance, brilliant.\u00a0 I suggest that we whip out the vz nav again and find one.\u00a0 A 7-11 is nearby and we stock up in the essentials; soda, chips, and a breakfast wrap.\u00a0 It is about 2:20 est. at this point.\u00a0 We are holding up quiet well actually\u2026\u00a0 we continue our journey to the condo.\u00a0 To make an already long story bearable\u2026\u00a0 we went round-and-round several times and finally called the place.\u00a0 It turns out that we have to go through the mall area to get to our condo.\u00a0 It is a lot like Buckland\u00a0 Hills\u2026\u00a0 we find the place with the help of the guy.\u00a0 There are no lights, the signs are covered in snow and we have to find building 13\u2026\u00a0 please\u2026\u00a0 well we trudged through the snow drifts and finally find the place.\u00a0 It is really close to where we should have parked :&gt;\u00a0 Marlo opens the outside door and because it is missing the spring whacks me with it\u2026\u00a0 Marlo\u2019s boots were full of snow from the walk over.\u00a0 She removes her shoes and socks, grabs a blanket and curls up on the couch.\u00a0 She stays there while I move the car and bring the rest of the stuff into the condo.\u00a0\u00a0 The place is nice.\u00a0 There is a nice gas fireplace\u2026\u00a0 it does not work\u2026 bummer.\u00a0 We call and tell them.\u00a0 They still have not done anything about it a day later\u2026 bummer, because it would be nice.\u00a0 It\u2019s cold outside\u2026\u00a0 I restarted the pilot and messed with it for a while, but all to no avail.\u00a0 The bed is small and hard, but not bad.\u00a0 The bathroom is ok.\u00a0 The water pressure in the shower is good.\u00a0 Around 2:00 am we decide to go to bed.\u00a0 4:00am est\u2026 not bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The car is in the closest spot from the desk.\u00a0 It was a nice blue color.\u00a0 We throw our stuff in\u2026\u00a0 it is a wagon like thing.\u00a0 I am driving (read first class wine&#8230;) and Marlo is to navigate with the laptop and gps.\u00a0 She has never used the software and she is not patient [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-utah-2009"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7vq9N-1U","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatup.brantct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatup.brantct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatup.brantct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatup.brantct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatup.brantct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatup.brantct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119,"href":"https:\/\/whatup.brantct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatup.brantct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatup.brantct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatup.brantct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}