Revival

It's tempting to try and offer some reason or explanation for why the blog hasn't been updated since June, but I'm just not going to. The purpose of Headlong Into the Blue (formerly known as Jae and Tyler's Excellent American Adventure, or something like that) is to provide some documentation to posterity that we actually existed, and so our kids will know that we didn't just get weird when we got old. We've always been like this.

We recently made a trip to the Four Corners, the point where Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado all meet. I've been trying to think, and I'm not aware of a more useless and unimportant destination in all the United States. Obviously it was imperative for us to visit it. Just about any road trip to Four Corners would have been a spectacular success, but this one was even more so since we convinced The Boy to come along. As we set out, our objectives were simple: We wanted to end up at Four Corners, we wanted to do cool stuff on the way down, and we didn't want to be restricted by a structured plan. Every objective was met triumphantly, and we ended up seeing not only the famed Four Corners, but also world-famous Dead Horse Point and the Utah classic, Delicate Arch. A delicious pizza rendezvous in Blanding sealed the victory (not just the best pizza in Blanding, the only pizza!). Also, Kaylene got to meet a real life drawing of a kit fox.

The real value of the trip was seeing several hours' worth of territory that should be uninhabited but for some reason isn't. It is kind of surprising to see people living in some of these places, but they do for some reason. Small-town folk have always fascinated me for that reason.