Sinking Sand, Snakes, and So-Long

Early to bed (no) - Early to rise (yes)...  Early to rise trying to get things done before I left for the high desert.  High meaning hills - lots of them.  This day me and my adventures in quality control buddy set out with great expectations, and silents prayers.  One block was unbelievably hilly.  Sinking sand hilly.  We got stuck at a point in the dry sand.  Probably should have headed that warning and turned around.  But we are census workers (meaning we're used to being masochists).  

The road got long and went way up and had a crazy turn and then there was the drop that kept me from looking out of my passenger window and praying that my co-worker would stay on the ledge.  We did make it up and then down the other side of this diddy, but several scratches on the car and wrenched nerves later we saw the snake slither across our path.  

Mission accomplished as best we could and then back to the compound for what might have been our last day again.    What more was left?  We had seen everything I think.  So we decided after we signed out to drive to Vegas, as tired as we were it seemed like a good idea.  At least it helped to wind us down, and "what happens in Vegas is fun!"

Ciao Y'all