It can be either the highlight of the day, or the nightmare from hell. How did it go for you?


Yesterday, I had a 8 hour commute to and from a job site.

I saw:
4 seperate golden eagles
1 bald eagle
1 bedded down Cow Moose
27 antelope
75 deer
1 very large owl
6 Hawks


Only got passed once by someone doing 80+ in an icy mountain valley. I got to watch her slide around a corner with no guard rails and a 50ft drop into the Hoback river. She's lucky she didn't go for a swim.

I saw a flipped truck.

I've got 50 minutes of bus time between my house and the university. Sometimes you'll see a hawk perched up on a telephone pole alongside the highway. Today though, its 19 degrees outside and I'm bundled up warm, so I just snoozed the whole trip.

I work at home, but saw an otter and a falcon (not at the same time) in the back yard yesterday.

I work about a 5 minute drive from home.

i have a 1 hour commute in so cal traffic, which means i drive 28 miles. today i saw:

-2 homeless men fighting over what looked like a charred cat.
-7 billion mexicans.
-22 miles of concrete.
-5 traffic cops.
-More fire hydrants than trees.

For my current main job (hopefully subject to change soon!) so do I, so nothing major most of the time. It's more interesting when the weather's mild and I ride my bike to work.

6 degrees this AM and I'm watching folk drive with only dinner plate sized spaces they have scraped off the windshield.

And they still weave in and out of traffic.

better today then yesterday.

Except I had to pull over and puke out the drivers door. No, I'm not hung over but I do have the flu.

My commute is this...:
Warm up the car, hang a U on the street and drive sedately uphill for 12 city blocks. Downshifting when i get to the light at S. temple. And hoping that the mormons driving remember what a stop sign means.. ( I almost got hit today because of that )

I drove to Jackson today.

50+ antelope
20 Deer
2 bald eagles
2 banded hawks

i'm calling bullshit. unless you work at a zoo and you're forced to drive around it 5 times before you can get into the gates there is no way you can see 74 animals in one day.

Have you ever driven through Utah, Wyoming, Idaho area?? Its a fairly easy task if you avoid the cities.

i've driven around utah (i'll be driving though there again next weekend) and idaho. i've never seen that many animals. ever. i've driven across country, up and down each coast and through a shit ton of states. i've never seen that many animals in one drive.

mine goes something like this -

Start car, flick all switches to get electrics running. select audio input and what to play from whichever. get out, treat windows and mirrors for frost if needed.

get in car, reverse out of drive and up road. reach main roundabout and floor it when leaving roundabout. get annoyed at people doing 40 on a 60 road. slingshot through next roundabout and overtake slow wanker if necessary.

turn up music now speakers have warmed up. adjust bass levels for current style of music. drive up hill. either take the overtaking lane or stay on left if need to buy fuel. if traffic jam occurs, just sit and crawl up hill. and down again.

get to roundabout. floor it once get to other side. wait behind slow cars to get to dual carriageway. fly past slow drivers on the outside lane, on the inside of a sharp turn at 80mph.

overtake all slow traffic and slow down for single lane and speed camera number one. get annoyed at people who don't know the speed limit and slow to 40 when its a 60 limit.

drive on past more speed cameras, overtake down a hill if i can, then meet up with slowed down traffic because of new gigantic housing estate and road re-alignment.

drive through a mile of cones (literally) and roadworks, sometimes sit in a queue if one lane is closed and traffic lights are erected. drive at boringly slow speeds and then reach major roundabout.

turn onto dual carriageway and go as fast as i can past basically just trees, lakes and grass fields, then turn off and loop back in towards town.

if i'm early, stop off to get stuff at tesco, if not, drive on through to uni.

work is much the same but turn left just before uni and i drive through back roads and housing estates to get to work rather than drive through the town centre.

Meh, I drove up 5 miles on one road and saw a mountain lion, 15ish deer, 3 elk, 2 hawks, and 3 turkey vultures. I'm not including squirrels and other rodentia types.. Damn, almost a christmas song..
I had to stop for the lion It's the local mom and has right-of-way in the canyon aera..

If your on the freeway, you might see a herd off the side. count the heads and you have a large number. Take some of the more off-beat roads and your more likely to see lots more.. And a wider variety..

You come here often and you haven't been to Dy's coffee shop???

i'll be in st. george next weekend, not salt lake. the last time i was in salt lake, which now that i think about it was right about this time last year, i was only there for two days. it was a quick photoshoot; in and out. cold as fuck though and not surprisingly i didn't see any wildlife.

During the winter all you will see are alot of deer and elk. The cougar are cool if you can see them You must not be watching the passing scenery too much
There is a shit ton of wildlife out this way. Deer, cougar, coons, eagles, hawks, falcons, etc etc....

i fly into vegas and then i'll be driving to st. george, actually i'll be riding shotgun, so i'll keep my eyes peeled for wildl