Moving Day

This is going to be short and with no pictures. Those will come tomorrow.

I left Boulder City, NV at around 8:30 am. Less than 200 miles later, I arrived in Cedar City, UT at around 12:30 pm. It was an easy drive, all up hill, but gently up, nothing horrendous.

It was one of those times when I wished I wasn't driving. The change in environment from Nevada to Arizona to Utah is truly amazing. Nevada is desert - flat, no trees, nothing more than 1 foot tall, the hills were rocky with nothing growing. As we got close to the Arizona border, the landscape became more hilly, more rocky and even the desert part was different.

Different kind of brush (taller), hills had more colors, the hills were buttes, bluffs, and table mesas with differing colors of rocks. There were places where you could see the various levels at which the colored layers changed. Mostly they were straight and level, but every once in a while you would see a section that was slanted or distorted into almost a loop.

I studied basic geography and oceanography and understand the tectonic plate theory. The idea that the Sierras are growing taller because the Pacific Plate is diving under the North American plate and forcing the left coast higher is fascinating.

Having watch Discovery about how the earth was made drove my thought during this drive. What kind of forces are underneath a particular place that make it change from straight and level to slanted and looped?

So, just a "short" drive and cooler temperatures. And I can't seem to get the trailer perfectly level. It is close enough to keep everything operating, but I don't have the energy or strength to make the jacks any more level. Maybe tomorrow.