- I wake*.
- It's about 2 hours later than I expected.
- Hm, apparently the sound is turned off on the iPod alarm that is standing in for my missing phone.
- Well, 2 hours surely can't be an issue when I'm planning on undertaking a 10 mile hike up an active river that apparently takes a good 6-8 hours to complete and the gathering storm clouds overhead seem to promise rain and opportunities for flash-flooding.
- What's that? In the previously described circumstances, 2 hours might be significant? Oh.
- Well.
- Hm...
- I wake up on time, ready to hit the ground running.
- Shuttle up to the last drop off point...
- Wow, looks like I'm the only one of the thousands of tourists at Zion who thought hiking the Narrows** would be a good way to spend a Monday***.
- Look, I'm going to write a separate post for the hike****, so let's agree to me being pretty vague here with the details.
- So anyway, the Einstein chipmunk and I decide to go our separate ways once we pop out of the wormhole. "It's been real" (and it had*****), I tell the time-traveling robot as I hop back on the Zion shuttle.
- Dinner time.
- Sleep time.
- Picture of the day:
Wow, Google images came through with the picture of "Einstein robot". I'll never doubt thee again, internet.As they say, "It was a Day".
*Or would that be, "I awake."? Eh.
**Hey, check out what Wikipedia has to say about what National Geographic has to say about the Narrows: Hiking the Narrows was rated # 5 in the National Geographic ranking of America's Best 100 Adventures.[1] ******
***Editor's note: Correction - there were hundreds of other folks at the Narrows. Gobs of people.
****Believe it when you read it.
*****Had it? You'll have to wait for the that blog post I'm claiming I'm going to be writing.*******
******Check it out, now we're citing other sources here at WIDWINW! Note: Italics in that quote are courtesy of the management.
*******Here's a little sneak preview: it had not.
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