Tuesday, April 19, 2011 - Capitol Reef National Park, Torrey UT
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Dawn on the Ridge, Looking West, Escalante UT, April 14, 2011
Making a supply run
After spending a few days on the ridge east of Escalante UT I needed some supplies. Groceries mostly. And the cell phone and internet service I assumed I'd find in town. And a laundromat. So off I went, first to Torrey and when that didn't pan out I continued west to Loa where I found groceries. Sort of - the selection is rather limited in this rural area. Then back to Bicknell, between Loa and Torrey, for a serviceable laundromat at a motel, and great 3G Verizon broadband service. A successful day overall - now it's back into the canyon at Fruita for a few days.
Night camp
Site 7 - Fruita Campground, Capitol Reef National Park, Torrey UT
- No Verizon cell phone service is available here - and no broadband.
- Locate on my Night Camps map
- Check the weather here
Tools for Communicating
There is no one who can know everything anymore, because there is simply too much information for one lifetime. In the gaps, our tools grow (I choose the organic term carefully), and they allow people to unite and divide movements, to undermine leaders, to elect the unwilling to roles of leadership into which they might grow. No single person can dominate in this world for very long these days, because our tools for communicating link us like ants and we can move the world while undemocratic leaders try to hold it still. People peck the man on the big horse to death like hungry ducks if he leads them down the wrong path or takes too many liberties on the journey.
Mitch Ratcliffe, Februray 27 2003