It is my daughter Danielle's birthday. I miss her.
We visit Palo Duro Canyon, a little-known State Park with beautiful rock formations. It is 128 degrees when we enter. Unfortunately, we were unable to get an early start. When we get there at 11, most people who have arrived when the park opens at 8 are already coming out. We have a half-gallon of water for each of us.
Trying to make it to The Lighthouse, the key formation 2.8 miles in, we find less and less shade. Our water is getting hot, like drinking hot tea. At the viewpoint halfway in, we (wisely) decide to turn back. Even the bushes which shaded us on the way in are now in full sun. The rest benches are hot and no longer shaded.
I am feeling weak and getting slower and slower, overcome with the thought that I must sit or even lay down. Bob bravely urges me on, minimizing the distance that is left to motivate me to continue. He is thinking he may have to leave me and get a ranger to bring a vehicle out to get me. But in the end, I make it. He is my hero!
We go to see Ice Age after eating at the disappointing Wrong Way Cafe'. It is all about the ambience, but the veggies were frozen and tasteless. The movie would have been better with Bob's granddaughter Anya there!
9 pm: Bob is putting the car back on the tow dolly in preparation for leaving tomorrow. He accidentally drives the car too far forward, and the wheels are now dangling over the front edge.
AAA won't come out: "It's not what we do". We offer to pay them, but they still won't come. "It's not covered on your plan". After momentary panic and annoyance, we decide that the worst that can happen is that we end up staying an extra day to figure this out.
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