Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Happy Halloween - BOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
Here we are on Halloween in southern Utah, parked at Cleota and Stan's, great weather, dry, and ready to move over to our new digs in the morning. We will be at the Willow Wind RV Resort in Hurricane UT, we got the last space, things get kind tight this time of year with all the snowbirds and construction workers. Hurricane is about 15 miles north of St. George and on the the highway to Zion and Bryce Canyon National Parks. Oh, and it's not pronounced with a hard A but a soft U at the end, you can compare that to KOONA and WIZER. We will also have a permanent address for a few months and I will send that out in a seperate email, don't want everybody on Blogspot to send us a Christmas card. Hope all is well with y'all.
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So, I am still waiting for pictures from the great vacation. Dolphins and things of that nature. I wanna see!!! :)
I got lost, what word is pronounced with a hard A? Thanks word people all over want to know. Thanks.
Sorry, Hurricane
Hurrikuhn?
Visitors traveling through Hurricane might wonder why a town in southern Utah shares its name with a tropical cyclone – a type of storm that never has and never will make “landfall” in the inland desert. The curious name dates back to the early 1860s, when a whirlwind blew off the top of a buggy carrying a group of surveyors led by Mormon leader Erastus Snow. “Well, that was a Hurricane,” exclaimed Snow. “We’ll name this the Hurricane Hill.” The nearby fault, mesa, and, later on, the town, took the same moniker. How residents say the name might catch many off guard. Locals pronounce it “Her-ah-kun,” which is the British pronunciation. Coincidentally, a town in West Virginia shares the same name and pronunciation.
Holy Crap! I stopped for breakfast in that particular bump in the road on my way from PC last December... small world, indeed...
Hey you guys! (Spoken like in the Goonies movie.)
Good to hear everything is going well! Glad to see a blog about your journeys! You are on our minds here are Pro Truck! TTYL!
Scott M.
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