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Sunday, March 17, 2024

From Provo, UT to St George, UT

Aloha Everyone,

Another glorious driving day. The two of us are truly enjoying ourselves. J.J. even said that he is really loving this chance to drive Honu. Seeing signages of Utah’s Mighty Five, we reminisced how fortunate we are to have visited all of them. I am motivated to do some sketches once we are settled in one place.




Lupita’s Mexican Restaurant is located in Cedar City. This family owned place offers truly homemade food. It is worth making Lupita’s as a destination! J.J. had an enchilada plate and I ordered a vegetarian burrito. Helped myself to black beans and the complimentary Mexican chips and dips were consistently good.








Arrived at La Quinta in St George. Roads to this place taking roundabouts is confusing.


For dinner, J.J. chose Rusty Crab Daddy on the main business road of the city. Cajun style seafood including shrimps, fish, rice and sides of calamari and mushrooms were good but spicy and heavy. 




It was 67 degrees when we finished our dinner. Today, J.J. drove 350 miles with varying outside temperatures of freezing to 78 degrees. Surrounded by red rocks, La Quinta in St George is in picture perfect site.


Aloha -- Cathi

Saturday, March 16, 2024

From Idaho Falls, ID to Park City, UT

Aloha Everyone,

Waited until 10 am so Honu would defrost under the sun.  36 degrees and sunny. Had a simple breakfast of croissant and coffee at the hotel.  


By noon, we were ready for a hot meal. Blackfoot is a small town where The Idaho Potato Museum is located. 5 years ago, I spent about 40 minutes visiting and educating myself about the history of the potato and the revolution of the potato industry, while J.J. was feasting on a steaming hot baked potato served with butter and chives.  



Today, we asked for one potato each and enjoyed it in the museum cafe. Well, it’s more like a hard indoor wooden park bench but the potato was DELICIOUS!!! Two teen age boys who took our order and prepared our potatoes had no idea nor did they even care how far we drove to eat this delicacy :-)


Potato, 5 years ago was $2.00. Today it’s $3.00. 50% inflation. We couldn’t help but wonder how the cost of living around here is affecting farmers and ordinary families.







Cracker Barrel was our choice for dinner. J.J. had a steak with mashed potatoes and gravy and I asked for Farmers Breakfast consisting of 2 eggs sunny side up, crisp turkey bacon and a basket of cornbread and muffins served with hot gravy. Too heavy and too complicated for my stomach. I had to stand up leaving 1/2 of my plate still full.





Microhotel, a full service hotel, was tonight’s accommodation. We have a room on the 2nd floor with view. Interesting to try different hotels, especially those that are outside of major hotel chains.





Aloha -- Cathi

Friday, March 15, 2024

From Billings, MT to Idaho Falls, Idaho

Aloha Everyone,

What an exciting way to start our day! Overnight below freezing temperatures caused Honu’s windshield to frost leaving sparkling ice crystals.



It took J.J. almost 1/2 hour to scrape the windshield to remove the ice. The car heater also helped. Beautiful snow capped mountains heading towards today’s destination.v












Stayed at Candlewood Suites, another hotel concept similar to ESA.




Takeouts from Panda Express. Although the quality of food including brown rice and chowmein noodle were not even close to other Panda Express’s standards, J.J. was happy to eat something closer to Asian food.




Aloha -- Cathi