Evel Kowalski

We had quite a scare on our last ride on Saturday morning. Nancy was riding up a narrow trail and took her eyes of the trail for a second and drifted to the left and hit a boulder about the size of a bushel basket. It tipped her almost over and the quad righted itself, but she still had her thumb on the accelerator, causing her to veer to the left up the side of the trail. That caused the quad to tip over and launched her off on the down side of the trail. The quad rolled over on it's back and then tried to roll over onto her, but the little trees prevented it from going any further. She ended up with a bruised knee, ankle, and wrist and thumb. No cuts or torn clothing. I ended up with a myocardial infarction watching all of this happen right in front of me. She was very lucky not to have been seriously hurt. Gary, Bryan and I tipped it upright, and other than a couple of scratches, the quad was in great shape. The whole thing could have been a whole lot worse. Needless to say, Nancy drove a lot more tentatively the rest of the trip.

Fall Colors in Utah

After our trip to New Hampshire to see the fall colors, I wasn't sure if I would see anything as pretty, but the scenery on our quad trip to Utah was spectacular. This picture was taken at Copley Campground on the Fillmore Loop of the Paiute Trail. It was just starting to rain. We had a wet ride back to the trailers.

More from the Paiute Trail

The Paiute Trail

Nancy and I loaded our trailer Wednesday evening and traveled with Gary, Sue and Bryan Hadley to Fillmore, Utah. We checked in at the KOA and spent the night, then today rode about 47 miles up over the Fillmore Loop on our quads. It was a beautiful trip with lots of stream crossings, great fall colors and some glimpses of the local wildlife, including several deer, an eagle, a bobcat and some hawks. We had a lunch on the trail and enjoyed great company and a wonderful experience. We will take another ride tomorrow morning and then load up and head home so that Nancy and I can take care of our church responsibilities.

Adventures on the East Coast

We have had the most wonderful trip to Boston this weekend. Mom and I left Wednesday evening and took the red eye flight to Boston and arrived about 5:00 am. Todd picked us up and we went to their home and caught about three hours of sleep before we started our day. The boys are so cute and it is so nice to spend some time with Ashley and Todd. Ashley had a bunch of stuff planned for us including a trip to New Hampshire and Maine for some "leaf peeping". The leaves had started to turn but they will be better in a couple of weeks. It was so beautiful. On Friday we visited New Hampshire, spending the night there, and then went to Maine on Saturday. There we went to Freeport, Maine, which is the home of L. L. Bean. We did some shopping, had a great lunch, then headed back to Boston before the boys were so tired that we would have to feed them to the bears. We went to a great park in Boston by the pier on Sunday afternoon after watching conference, then returned home for dinner. Today it rained so we went to a mall up near Wellesley and then went apple picking at this wonderful farm. The boys played at the petting zoo and had a great time, although Ben got his fingers nipped by an Emu that he was trying to feed. He probably won't be doing that again soon. We ended the day with our third evening of hearts. We finally ended up seeing Todd as the loser after being the champion for the first two nights. He wasn't getting worse, we just got a little better. We won't be seeing this family until February or March, so we are really going to miss being around them, but we are so glad we came.