like lion in zion

look what jesus made!




for the past three saturdays ive been in small towns... its just kinda worked out that way. two weeks ago was texarkana, last week was wichita, and tonight, the smallest of all - st george, utah. im in a motel 6 - i stayed in a hotel of theirs in wichita and hated it. yet i managed to avoid cheesey jokes like 'i bet motels one through five were condemned'. anyway, this one isnt so bad. its also 50% more expensive than the wichita one. go figure.

today i left slc and drove to zion national park, which is aboot a half-hour northeast of where i am now. it was amazing how much the landscape changed from northern to southern utah. zion was like a mountainy desert. pretty cool looking, but it got a little samey after a while. but today was free-national-parks day (normally would have been twenty bucks) so no complaints. i was hoping to see some snakes or mountain lions (or some very lost and overheated bears) but all i got was tiny lizards and giant flies.

im hoping tomorrows city is one of the highlights of my trip - las vegas. im staying in a downtown hotel tomorrow night, the plaza, then monday and tuesday i move to the strip, staying in the tropicana and excalibur, respectively. im also gonna do my best to see the corpse bride tomorrow. anybody wanna join me?