Park City, UT: The Apex (1491.7 miles)

We spent today browsing properties again, amidst more GoPro failure. This time, however, it wasn't my fault, but I'll spare you the details regarding both the house hunting and the GoProing. Hopefully, we'll have some more interactive content for your viewing pleasure as we begin our journey off the beaten trail, but until then, I hope my "pictures of the day" have been sufficient. 

I know some of you might be as interested regarding the analytics and view statistics of our Blog. Dad and I would both like to thank everyone for traveling along with us through the internet...it is nice to know friends and family are reading. You've read entries almost 700 times over the past four days, and it's awesome to see that (hopefully) some of you are enjoying what I (and, indirectly, Dad) have to say, and more importantly what we've done. It's been fun for us to seek out Blog-worthy experiences...but we've both found that the best moments are usually ones that come about with little or no thought at all. Regardless, we both would like to thank you for viewing from counties far and wide (that's specifically a shout-out to the South Korean reader we've picked up along the way) and from everywhere else. You've made blogging fun! 

Okay, enough of that. More trip info, stat!

Tomorrow morning we leave for Red Cliffs Lodge in Moab, UT. Its a four hour drive, practically a walk in the park for us. Dad doesn't know it, but he'll be driving the whole day. Hopefully, I'll be able to see some cool things to blog about. More realistically, I've written about four paragraphs about states that we're filled with nothing, so if our drive south through Utah has anything worth seriously writing about,  expect a long one tomorrow. If not, everyone likes hearing about sandy deserts and cool rocks, right?

Since we've been working so hard on the property hunting here in Park City, dad and I had to wash down a long day's work with a meal at Montage's restaurant, Apex. Apex is appropriately named, as the highest restaurant on the Deer Valley property, located past the Empire Pass lodge (which used to be the only eatery in the high mountain when we first started coming to Deer Valley) and built neatly into the side of the mountain. The Montage has a great view and a wonderful location, but after our three hour leisure dinner at the St. Regis the night before, the pace of our meal at Apex just wasn't right.  Things came too fast, and we didn't have the time we would have liked to enjoy the scenery and the vistas. Regardless, the food was good, and we enjoyed sitting out in the mountain air, watching the shadows lengthen Upper Deer Valley. 

We've had a lot of fun in Park City, but it's time to get Jeepin'...we both can't wait!

Sunset from Empire Pass