{"id":683,"date":"2014-05-20T09:42:13","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T17:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/?p=683"},"modified":"2014-05-20T09:55:16","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T17:55:16","slug":"looking-for-love-in-moab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/2014\/05\/looking-for-love-in-moab\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking for love in Moab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-711\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DSC06029-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"DSC06029\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DSC06029-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DSC06029-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DSC06029.jpg 1944w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>Part One.<br \/>\nLooking for love in Moab is a little like trying to make a left turn on Main Street<br \/>\nduring Jeep Safari Week<br \/>\nI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sure it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s possible, doable, if you wait for the yellow or the red<br \/>\nIf you have your turn signal on and plenty of gas<br \/>\nIf everybody follows the rules and takes turns<br \/>\nIf you remain calm and don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t panic, don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t look too desperate<br \/>\nDon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t give up, watch for tourists carrying their little bags of red dirt shirts and postcards<br \/>\nNot just jay-walking, but doing cursive Ws, Ks, and U turns out of Andy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s book shop.<\/p>\n<p>Part Two.<br \/>\nLooking for love in Moab is a little like eating breakfast at Denny\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s<br \/>\nOh, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s convenient, just down the street, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s even at a traffic light<br \/>\nAnd the parking\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s good. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s even room for the semis.<br \/>\nAnd available, open 24 hours, breakfast, lunch, and dinner<br \/>\nAnd it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t close in the winter<br \/>\nBut it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not very hip or cool<br \/>\nToo plastic, predictable, pedestrian, standard, unworldly, franchise-y<br \/>\nKerouac wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have bothered<br \/>\nThe beats and the boatmen are eating someplace else<br \/>\nBut Denny\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s is a breakfast you might want to settle for<br \/>\nSince Eklectica has a line out the door.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Part Three.<br \/>\nLooking for love in Moab is a little like driving to Floy<br \/>\nThere\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s probably something there, but do you really want to commit<br \/>\nActually turn off I-70, take a chance, use up your gas, strike out on that unmaintained road?<br \/>\nYou can Google Floy and see it was an old railroad station for the Denver &amp; Rio Grande<br \/>\nThere\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a Floy Canyon, a Floy Wash, a Floy Trail, and a place called Nutter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Hole.<br \/>\nMaybe there used to be something in Floy back in its rail stop days<br \/>\nSome reason for going there, a vibrant past now tumbleweeded over<br \/>\nAnd maybe I could make a go of things in Floy with a trust fund, a newer car<br \/>\nSkills in carpentry, electronics, masonry, plumbing, metallurgy, farming,<br \/>\nRanching, veterinary care, CPR, car mechanics, cardiology, and well-digging<br \/>\nWas a little younger and a lot better maintained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part One. Looking for love in Moab is a little like trying to make a left turn on Main Street during Jeep Safari Week I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sure it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s possible, doable, if you wait for the yellow or the red If you have your turn signal on and plenty of gas If everybody follows the rules and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":723,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions\/723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}