What I Learned--Grand canyon 2

What I Learned Traveling to the Grand Canyon #2

I learned that I am so much an easterner. 

We drove along this little twisting road through a state park in Utah. It was beautiful country with huge rock formations and blue, blue sky. 

Roger slowed as we rounded one more snaky corner.  We came upon an accident in the opposite lane. People were around the car that had gone off the road and run into the rock wall just off the road’s shoulder. We drove on because others had stopped. We decided to call 911. 

Only there was no cell phone reception.

We drove 12 miles before we came to the first place we could call for help. It was a ranger station at a camp ground. We called 911 from there.  Nobody had called the accident in yet. 

If the accident had been on interstate 80 or 81 the roads I know and we had waited 12 miles to call it in, the police would have already been on the scene. 

I had no idea how different one part of the USA was from another. 

We talked to a young man who took care of his sick grandfather and moved to a different town so his grandpa could get to a hospital if he needed to go there. There was is no hospital in Silverton, Colorado. And the road can get snowed closed in the winter.   

He couldn’t just go to the urgent care walk-in, or the grocery store.

We heard a pastor talk about an accident where a couple guys in pickup trucks had first aid equipment and flares to help out.

  

I really admire the scenery out here.  And the people? They are pretty amazing.

Just like at home.