Rain today. Got up early but decided to wait till the rain let up to start walking. Walked past some of the ruins of Thistle – the old school house, a house still under mud and water up to the rafters, a lone mailbox on the highway with no house behind it. It was a rather melancholy morning reflecting on how much these people had lost in such beautiful surroundings.
Past Thistle, the road continued winding southward along the river. There was a lot of gorgeous scenery along the way, but after a few miles with rain threatening again, we packed it in for the morning. We had rain off and on all day pretty much up until I was through with my workday. By evening things seemed to have cleared out and we started back out again for a few hours, making it past Birdseye to Nebo Creek Trail. Somewhere near Birdseye, I heard someone yell, “Hey, Wahlquists, what are you doing?” It turned out to be my neighbor, Richard Willis, on his way back from Manti. It was fun to run into him out in the boonies. It is hard for people to stop along this stretch of road, so we don’t have the donation “bucket” hanging out the window. Still we had a donation of $9 come in and a teacher from Provo High who lives a few miles past Birdseye flagged us down and spent some time talking with us on the side of the road. She wants to get her students involved.
I got a call today from my cousin Jana who lives in Las Vegas Fairview , Mount Pleasant and Spring City Snow College
Thursday - no walk on Thursday. Look for more on Friday :)
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