Red the Traveling Dal Visits the American Southwest

[davidd]

Red's Adventures in Utah, USA continue - September 2021:

"Okay... let's get this show on the road! What is there to see and do around here?"

"I guess as long as we're going for a drive, we may as well drive on a road... although driving off-road might be more exciting! Still, they say Scenic Byway 12 is one of the most picturesque roads in the western United States."

"Here I am being 'picturesque' - or is it 'picaresque' - look it up - on the picturesque sign for a picturesque highway in a picturesque... you get the idea."

"What d'ya mean, we're hiking? What's with the hiking stuff? I thought we were driving? I mean, we have a Jeep, right?"

"Oh, look! An old dead tree! I hope the excitement level ratchets back down - I don't know how much more of this adrenaline rush I can handle!"

"What is the freakin' deal with everybody wanting me to pose in trees? And this isn't even a live tree!"

"Oh, look - another dead tree!"

"What's this? No, seriously, I'm asking you, woodn't you like to know what it is? Are you stumped? Nah, you're not even close; you're barking up the wrong dead tree!"

"I've heard of the Trail of the Lonesome Pine, but not the Trail of the Long Dead Pines."

"Finally! A tree that's not dead! Although you might be if you eat these berries! Just kidding... I think. Do any of you remember a guy named Euell Gibbons? 'D'ja ever eat a pine tree? Many parts are edible!' Yeah, well, he's dead now, which you might wanna file away for reference."

"Where are we going again? Over that-a-way? Izzat how ever'body out here in the Old West talks? This-a-way, that-a-way, head 'em off at the pass?"

"Whaaat? We're going up there? Like... how?"

"I shoulda figured that's how! Isn't there, like, a net or something? A rope? A parachute? An... ambulance?"

To Be Continued....