I stared out from Missoula w/a few months of sobriety(from the BEER).I smoked weed, drank Pepsi, pissed into the pepsi bottle, tossed the bottle, found a gas station, then repeatead this proccess for 12hrs till i reached the outskirts of salt lake. i was way too high & full of hope to realize that my water pump didn't pump & no amount of piss or fluid would keep me going & proceeded to blow up my radiator from the seams. this is not easy to do on accident, but hey it was purple hawiian cronic! i made it to a hotel after several failed attempts to get a cab(hey, i was in utah & way too burned to form a real sentence). after finally getting a cab to a cheap hotel w/a phone(a specific request to the cab driver)i put the final bits of destemmed purple to it's final rest. w/a terrible headache the next morning i groped my way to the hotel lobby, got a cab to the bus staion, & after 12 hrs of bad coffee & telling countless mexicans to buy ur own damn smokes, made it to lvnv, got 2 jobs w/o st id or any kind of usefull job hisorty/refferences, worked my way to the top of the food chain in my field. then i accepted myself...oh christ, i just ran out choices. now i am screwed! 

Hon, take away this lesson at least.

Don't drive under the influence of any mind-altering substance.

And kids, remember, if your ending up in Utah as your destination, you're way too high to figure out where you were going to begin with.

Quote from: tekla on September 19, 2009, 07:23:28 AM
And kids, remember, if your ending up in Utah as your destination, you're way too high to figure out where you were going to begin with.

Isn't that the truth.

Quote from: Bellaon7 on September 18, 2009, 09:16:14 PM
telling countless mexicans to buy ur own damn smokes

This made me lol, I rode Greyhound leaving from Los Angeles once. It was like Wild freaking Kingdom, if I hadn't been with a bunch of other Marines I don't know if I would have survived. I've taken airplanes ever since.

Oh I love the hound from hell - I really love the train, and take that first - but there is something about Greyhound that just is kinda nice in its own way.  At least I wasn't surprised when Bush won.

Quote from: tekla on September 19, 2009, 07:23:28 AM
And kids, remember, if your ending up in Utah as your destination, you're way too high to figure out where you were going to begin with.

Hey! i never planed on stopping in utah cept for pepsi & gas, i just hoped it was legal to purchase those products there being it was a tues & i was left handed! 

One of my earliest memories as a child is of seeing a broken syringe in the gutter near Temple Square. My mother told me not to play with it and to come along. I dunno why that's stuck with me of all things.

Allot of folks seem to think Salt Lake City is Mormon land. But in reality it is only about 50% LDS if even that. Try living in a city that is about 80% and most of the other folks are part of another Christian sect.

Nothing against anyone's particular religion. I keep all their various books filed along with comics and fantasy novels 

I rode the grey hound a few times for various reasons when I was younger. The most memorable trip was from LA to Santa Cruz. Although that's not very far to ride, but that was quite a trip. Something to do with something called window pane. I'm not sure how, but I arrived in Santa Cruz with more money and better happy smoke than I left with. Oh yeah, I went out and played guitar during the longer stops. Got an extra hour? Make a few bucks singing 

Quote from: Becca on September 21, 2009, 10:27:16 PM
One of my earliest memories as a child is of seeing a broken syringe in the gutter near Temple Square. My mother told me not to play with it and to come along. I dunno why that's stuck with me of all things.

when i was growing up, it was a regular occourance for ocean side beaches to be closed due to medical waste in addition to random trash. on both coasts!

Quote from: Virginia Marie on September 21, 2009, 11:55:39 PM
Something to do with something called window pane.

lol, don't be playing innocent missy! I knew there was a reason I liked you 

Quote from: Virginia Marie on September 21, 2009, 11:55:39 PM
Allot of folks seem to think Salt Lake City is Mormon land. But in reality it is only about 50% LDS if even that.

It may be only half, but that half really does run things. They seem to have the other half running scared most of the time.

I have lived in many places, and never seen anywhere that the church had that much control. Which is saying something considering one dorm manager in New Mexico claimed the town we lived near/in was more corrupt than Panama when Noriega was there running things.

Quote from: Leslie Ann on September 22, 2009, 04:37:09 PM
It may be only half, but that half really does run things. They seem to have the other half running scared most of the time.

I have lived in many places, and never seen anywhere that the church had that much control. Which is saying something considering one dorm manager in New Mexico claimed the town we lived near/in was more corrupt than Panama when Noriega was there running things.

so much for seperation of church & st...i heard lds could not consume caffeine, that is until they bought large shares of coke. i remember growing up they would ride from house to house in pairs of 2 on bikes recruting. my Mom would be like "qiuck, close the drapes & turn out the lights!" then when i got older hanging out w/friends one of us would flag them down & wave them over. we were of course  drinking beer & smoking weed w/the the stereo blasting satanic speed metal. we'd tell them Mom should be home from work any minute & was very interested. we'd try & make them wait for as long as possible.they had the shiniest shoes...

Quote from: Bellaon7 on September 22, 2009, 06:50:47 PM
so much for seperation of church & st...i heard lds could not consume caffeine, that is until they bought large shares of coke.

They aren't they also are not supposed to gamble but own(ed) a large portion of the Vegas strip, at least for a while. They have no problem making money off others who break their rules. Major organized religions work around money, they are some are the largest corporations in the world. The L.D.S. doesn't seem to hide their greed as well as others though.

If you ever see the Temple in Salt Lake, take a look around back at the statue of Joeseph Smith... His hand is outstretched, towards the Zion bank across the street. 


Oh, and it's Pepsi they do/did own.

Quote from: Leslie Ann on September 25, 2009, 02:36:05 AM
take a look around back at the statue of Joeseph Smith... His hand is outstretched, towards the Zion bank across the street. 

That sounds like it would make a great picture, does the landscaping and such allow it?

It's kind of a busy area, Google maps doesn't show it.

It's the Brigham Young statue with the outstretched hand, the J. Smith one is holding a book, which I presumed was the BoM. (Hey, its not like there is anything else to do in SLC)

You're probably right, I didn't exactly get out to look close at who it was, but yeah, not a lot to do there. Not a place I care to return to.

Yeah, nothing to do in SLC. Nothing at all. You have to drive a whole hour to get up LCC.



Utah sucks. Don't go there.

The resorts, Park City, Alta, Sundance, are not too bad, and the area around Moab is not too bad - great mountain biking.  And the National Parks in the Southeast corner are some of the best, I love Zion in particular.  You just have to fly under the LDS radar. That' and bring your own beer.