Day One Hundred and Ninety-Six

Its the end of September, the trees are still green, the weather is still hot, autumn is nowhere in sight and somehow I've already been here in Cedar City for a month.

Day One Hundred and Ninety-Four

Sometimes leaving my daily photograph until the last minute hoping something will turn up and spark my imagination pays off. I couldn't capture this very well, but here's the sunset over Cedar City from Amanda's place at the bottom of the mountain.

Day One Hundred and Ninety-Three

Each day I take a four and a half mile run along one of the major streets in Cedar City (there's only two) from where I'm staying to Main Street (that's the other major street).

The street naming system here in Cedar (and I'm lead to believe, the whole of Utah) work a bit differently. Instead of naming the streets, like every other place in the world, each road is numbered by its distance from the main street (or in larger cities distance from the temple). Now, that's pretty logical I thought and fortunately I'm pretty good at maths so its actually made it pretty easier to find my way around. (I often imagine people who can't add or subract number easily must spend hours driving aimlessly around the town trying to get home from work each day. Maybe its modern day natural selection.)

Anyway, leaving the mathematically challenged aside, I think this is a pretty good system as you'll always know where you are in town, no need for a GPS here. I also like it because its different, ok it probably does exist elsewhere in the world, but my point is its not common and it stands out. At least it did until I saw this...

Freedom Boulevard? Yes, it turns out the second major street in town has been given a second name, its not so unique and very common. With imagination like that, my money is on the next two major streets built in the city to be called Liberty and Independence!