Story Corps Trip

I did it ! On Friday I made the trek North to Logan for my Story Corps interview. I took the posters with me so I could count the time as outreach. I know, this is a nasty little bureocrat trick but the trick work and I did some work but I also got some of my needs met by spending time with my Buddy Marty and being interviewed by an NPR program.
The trip up to Logan went OK, lots of traffic but no real stopping, some close calls but really not long frustrating stops. I actually got to Logan in great time, suprising me and Marty. Before I made contact with Marty I actually found the Story Corps
Airstream and scoped the vehicle out. I was surprised to see there was a table out front with a volunteer sitting there just like the image on the NPR website. I wondered if these were actors who went with the trailer. The volunteer really did look like yard art. I looked over the trailer and pondered how these guys were going to get me in or maybe they were not and would do the interview somewhere else—like reasonable accommodations. I finally introduced myself informing the volunteer I was their “2:30”—she smiled looking like a phone volunteer at a public radio telethon and looked down at her clip board and sparkled “Yes, here you are. Be here a little before to do the paperwork. ” I smiled back with much less sparkle and fished out my cell and called Marty who informed me he was already on hi way to meet me.
Logan looks like the set to Footloose” . Logan is a academic/relgious town. I know this sounds a conterdiction of terms but Logan is. Utah State University calls Logan it’s home. Logan is about an hour and half North of salt Lake through the mountains—to get there a person has to drive through Sardine Canyon which is deadly in the winter time. I guess what I am saying is Logan is geographically isolated from the rest of the state and maybe the world and I think that Logan’s residents like it that way. However, USU is a little think tank or maybe better described as a mother vat to a lot of smaller think tanks. My buddy Marty works at one of these thinks tanks, actually Marty runs this think tank. He and other egg heads from Logan commute to Salt Lake usually a couple of time a week depending on the season, the political season. I wish I had taken more images but if you look around the edges of the images I have included you will see part of the town.
Marty and I had a long leisurely lunch at what used to be the town soda fountain. I had a great Rueben with great conversation. I was going to take tons of images but I was so engaged with Marty that I spaced the camera until I got to the interview. It was then I when I tried to take a movie of me going up the ramp that the camera was out of juice. The extra batteries I had did not work so I just got a few. Here there are enjoy.