Business Travel

We rose from some awfully plush beds and got down to the lobby five minutes early of the posted breakfast opening. Everything was already set out and set up, excellent. The gorge-fest was on. Three different kinds of cereal, French toast, muffins, danishes, chopped fruit, orange juice, apple juice, and much more that I'm certainly forgetting. It had been our desire to shut the thing down but the Hampton has a very well-stocked pantry behind their continental breakfast so we had to be content with purely personal satisfaction. After we had eaten ourselves into a drunken stupor we lumped back up to the room. Jordan and Jeremy went back to sleep while I attempted to update the website.

All parties came to and we made some plans to go out on the town during our rest day. We left a lot of belongings back in the hotel room and the bikes were nimble, quick, accelerated hard. That was new. Rode north to the better of the two bike shops and topped off with their floor pump. I purchased a Discovery Channel cycling cap that was on discount. Our intention was to go to the University of Southern Utah campus but we were diverted by a restaurant called the Pizza Factory. By this time it was at least five hours after breakfast, I assure you. The lunch special was a personal pizza, a soda, and access to a well-stocked salad bar. Lunch was fine and we eventually did make it to the campus. Cedar City is home to a premiere Shakespeare festival but we didn't make it to any performances during our visit, just passed by the theaters where the plays were being staged. We did, however, visit a fine arts gallery housed in one of the campus buildings. Saw quite a few photos of natural landmarks that we had passed in the last week or so. The campus was attractive but there were groceries to buy, so we pressed on.

On the way out we passed their pool which had an enticing multi-story slide, unfortunately out of order. Back to the hotel to do laundry and eat more pizza and pack our bags to begin riding again the next day. The internet had not been working at the Hampton. I tried everything I knew how to do and they called some tech support hotline to no avail. But... a lot of development is taking place near the hotel and on the second evening of our stay in Cedar City the Supercuts router came online. Success! We wasted time on the computer in our room instead of out in the parking lot connected to the “Reyes Family Network.” Real beds called our names and we relented and slept soundly, held aloft by dreams of signed contracts and successful conferences at the Hampton Inn.

Isn't that precious?

I resisted the urge to draw lewd things on them.

Airtime.