Alaska or Bust

We left Malibu at 5:35 am and drove pretty much all day. We took a long lunch
break in Las Vegas to see an old friend. We have been in 4 states
today, California, Nevada, Arizona and Utah. We are told that this is
the fastest way to get to Alaska though it is 300 miles longer than
going the coastal route. The highlights of today were seeing my dear
friend, Virgin Creek Canyon (about 20 miles south of St George), an
area just past St George where all the rocks were an impossible red,
Cedar City Utah.

Gas prices for regular are:
$4.79 in Malibu at the cheap place (The San Fernando Valley is $4.55 at
the cheap place)
$5.79 at a road stop in the apparent middle of the desert -I passed
$4.24 just over the hill from the outrageous place both were in Nevada
$4.14 Las Vegas Nevada
$4.04 Cedar City Utah

I didn't stop but the prices were $4.07 in that little corner of Arizona
that we passed.

Low points were HEAT, truck kicked up a rock and dinged my windshield, 2
teen-ish girls in close quarters, we have way too much stuff packed in
that little RV and the loooooong drive, and we only made 698 miles.

Tonight we are in a hotel in Payson, Utah about 60 miles south of Salt
Lake City. The people here are impossibly clean cut. The men in Payson
(just south of Provo) remind me of Ken as in Barbie and Ken, they look
plastic to me.