Day 56: The next day
Friday, May 26, 2017
I am up early the next day. It is very hard to get out of bed. The ribs & diaphragm are very sore when I use them. So sitting up in bed is very painful. Standing up can be painful unless you just use your legs, which I am learning to remember. I am also learning to exhale before I reach down to pick something up.
I go to the lobby to walk around and a gentleman named Greg shows up. It turns out he grew up here and comes back to visit his brother-in-law who raises cattle. Greg has chronic lyme's disease and seems to be doing rather well. He gives me the name of a Dr. who has a series of videos on how he calmed the disease down.
While I am doing this Vicki has secured us passage on a shuttle, Salt Lake Express, to Pocatello. We got lucky because they normally don't stop at Malad but someone else wanted to get off. They made an exception about crating your dog; allowing Max on it without a crate.
Now we need our drugs. Vicki calls the Sheriff, the dispatcher said she would send them over when someone else arrives. Last night we waited a couple of hours, we did not want to do that again so after waiting a half an hour the three of us walk over and get it.
We come back to the hotel. I see Greg and say goodbye to him. I wonder why I had met him and what should I do about it. Was there something I should have taken from this meeting or was it something my brother-in-law or both.
The lady who sold us a room last night comes down the stairs. She said she would have offered to take us to Pocatello but she had another job cleaning some place down the road. As I count it, she has 3 part-time jobs: front desk at the hotel, waitress at the bar, and office cleaner.
We find out it is really chilly. I am still in shorts and t-shirt. We now try to find food with Max. The problem we had is we have to sit outside with Max and it is not warm out there. We go by one restaurant people kept mentioning the Pines Restaurant. We walk there it is on the way to the shuttle stop. They turn us down. We end up walking to the bus stop and there is a Bugger King. Before there we see a Family Dollar store. Vicki goes in and tries to find us warmer clothing. She walks out with a t-shirt hoody, which is a little bit warmer.
Vicki goes in and orders her breakfast. When she comes out I order mine. When I come back out, Vicki is talking with someone. It turns out she was one of the EMs. She saw us standing here and stopped to see how we were doing. Her main job is a Realestate Agent and she does EM on the side. She said she would offer to take us but she had several appointments this morning. It was really nice of her to stop by.
We were very happy to have come to Malad. Everyone we met were very nice and I would recommend it to anyone. Thanks to everyone at Redfield Memorial Hospital including Nancy, Mark and Amy Thomas, Onieda sheriff, the owners and workers of Malad Hotel, and the owners and works of the pharmacy across the street. Again, why did God send us this way instead of Protocello?
We finish eating out in the cold and wait for the shuttle. It is about 40 minutes late. We get on the shuttle but there are not 2 seats together. Eventually, Vicki sits down and I try to find a seat. At that moment, the person next to Vicki decides to be nice (I don't want to sit by a dog) and move. Max was his normal self, not sitting still and panting a lot. This is what he does when he gets into a car. So, we put up with this for an hour. We finally arrive in Pocatello at a gas station.
The next plan was to go to the airport and get a car. We ask around if there is a way to get to the airport and nobody knows. In the meantime we had reserved a room for a day at the Clarion Inn. Vicki calls them and they have a shuttle, which picks us up and takes us to the Clarion. We check in and decide on the type of car we want to rent. The shuttle takes her to the car rental place and she returns with a car: Ford Excursion. We chose this to minimize the number of trips to the tow place.
Lee's towing in Pocatello towed our car and UTT to his storage place. We drive there this afternoon and begin collecting items that are sentimental to us. Amanda who helps us is the daughter of the owner. They did not want us to go into the vehicles for safety reasons. We start with our car, which is a 2017 Nissan Armada. I think we chose a good car. It handled rolling over at least once and the three of us walked away. The front window is shattered but did not break and the back window was broken out. The side air bags were all blown. We get my camera bag out of the car. It looks like it survived the rollover. Max's seat and strap get pulled out. It is what help to save him. We leave quite a bit of stuff in the car.
Next we tackle UTT. UTT as we were told by Lee, owner of Lee's Towing, just fell on its side and did not roll. The first thing I noticed was the refrigerator door came off. The freezer door did not. Now this was a residential refrigerator, which means it did not use gas and it was 10 cu ft instead of the standard 6 cu ft. We had trouble with the refrigerator part freezing. Maybe the fact the door came off might be related or it could be we had too much food in it. But we did have the lock on to keep the doors from opening.
We started getting stuff out of the trailer we thought we needed. It filled up the back of the Ford Excursion we had rented.
I have not talked about the fact that mentally this was stressful. We were looking at the vehicles that we have been in for the last almost 2 months. Vicki had spent the 2 months before the trip and part of the trip making UTT livable for us. In fact making it a home. It was gone. It would be like your house burning down. Also, when looking at the car it saved our lives or at least kept us from getting seriously injured. When we think how lucky we were, the question was why were we so lucky. Does God have a plan for us? If so, what does he want us to do?
Now that the first trip was done, we have to figure out what we want to do next. We have reservations for a travel trailer in West Yellowstone (5/29/2017-6/8/17) where we will be meeting up with David and Susan McManus. In fact, we had just extended the stay to include the 5/29/17 the day of the accident. We also have reservations for the Grand Tetons for the next week.
After a little discussion we decide we would like to see Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons.
Todo list for tomorrow so far:
Paul and Vicki Kristoff
photo@kristoffs.com
PaulKristoffPhotography.com
paulkristoff.blogspot.com/
I am up early the next day. It is very hard to get out of bed. The ribs & diaphragm are very sore when I use them. So sitting up in bed is very painful. Standing up can be painful unless you just use your legs, which I am learning to remember. I am also learning to exhale before I reach down to pick something up.
I go to the lobby to walk around and a gentleman named Greg shows up. It turns out he grew up here and comes back to visit his brother-in-law who raises cattle. Greg has chronic lyme's disease and seems to be doing rather well. He gives me the name of a Dr. who has a series of videos on how he calmed the disease down.
While I am doing this Vicki has secured us passage on a shuttle, Salt Lake Express, to Pocatello. We got lucky because they normally don't stop at Malad but someone else wanted to get off. They made an exception about crating your dog; allowing Max on it without a crate.
Now we need our drugs. Vicki calls the Sheriff, the dispatcher said she would send them over when someone else arrives. Last night we waited a couple of hours, we did not want to do that again so after waiting a half an hour the three of us walk over and get it.
We come back to the hotel. I see Greg and say goodbye to him. I wonder why I had met him and what should I do about it. Was there something I should have taken from this meeting or was it something my brother-in-law or both.
The lady who sold us a room last night comes down the stairs. She said she would have offered to take us to Pocatello but she had another job cleaning some place down the road. As I count it, she has 3 part-time jobs: front desk at the hotel, waitress at the bar, and office cleaner.
We find out it is really chilly. I am still in shorts and t-shirt. We now try to find food with Max. The problem we had is we have to sit outside with Max and it is not warm out there. We go by one restaurant people kept mentioning the Pines Restaurant. We walk there it is on the way to the shuttle stop. They turn us down. We end up walking to the bus stop and there is a Bugger King. Before there we see a Family Dollar store. Vicki goes in and tries to find us warmer clothing. She walks out with a t-shirt hoody, which is a little bit warmer.
Vicki goes in and orders her breakfast. When she comes out I order mine. When I come back out, Vicki is talking with someone. It turns out she was one of the EMs. She saw us standing here and stopped to see how we were doing. Her main job is a Realestate Agent and she does EM on the side. She said she would offer to take us but she had several appointments this morning. It was really nice of her to stop by.
We were very happy to have come to Malad. Everyone we met were very nice and I would recommend it to anyone. Thanks to everyone at Redfield Memorial Hospital including Nancy, Mark and Amy Thomas, Onieda sheriff, the owners and workers of Malad Hotel, and the owners and works of the pharmacy across the street. Again, why did God send us this way instead of Protocello?
We finish eating out in the cold and wait for the shuttle. It is about 40 minutes late. We get on the shuttle but there are not 2 seats together. Eventually, Vicki sits down and I try to find a seat. At that moment, the person next to Vicki decides to be nice (I don't want to sit by a dog) and move. Max was his normal self, not sitting still and panting a lot. This is what he does when he gets into a car. So, we put up with this for an hour. We finally arrive in Pocatello at a gas station.
The next plan was to go to the airport and get a car. We ask around if there is a way to get to the airport and nobody knows. In the meantime we had reserved a room for a day at the Clarion Inn. Vicki calls them and they have a shuttle, which picks us up and takes us to the Clarion. We check in and decide on the type of car we want to rent. The shuttle takes her to the car rental place and she returns with a car: Ford Excursion. We chose this to minimize the number of trips to the tow place.
Lee's towing in Pocatello towed our car and UTT to his storage place. We drive there this afternoon and begin collecting items that are sentimental to us. Amanda who helps us is the daughter of the owner. They did not want us to go into the vehicles for safety reasons. We start with our car, which is a 2017 Nissan Armada. I think we chose a good car. It handled rolling over at least once and the three of us walked away. The front window is shattered but did not break and the back window was broken out. The side air bags were all blown. We get my camera bag out of the car. It looks like it survived the rollover. Max's seat and strap get pulled out. It is what help to save him. We leave quite a bit of stuff in the car.
Next we tackle UTT. UTT as we were told by Lee, owner of Lee's Towing, just fell on its side and did not roll. The first thing I noticed was the refrigerator door came off. The freezer door did not. Now this was a residential refrigerator, which means it did not use gas and it was 10 cu ft instead of the standard 6 cu ft. We had trouble with the refrigerator part freezing. Maybe the fact the door came off might be related or it could be we had too much food in it. But we did have the lock on to keep the doors from opening.
We started getting stuff out of the trailer we thought we needed. It filled up the back of the Ford Excursion we had rented.
I have not talked about the fact that mentally this was stressful. We were looking at the vehicles that we have been in for the last almost 2 months. Vicki had spent the 2 months before the trip and part of the trip making UTT livable for us. In fact making it a home. It was gone. It would be like your house burning down. Also, when looking at the car it saved our lives or at least kept us from getting seriously injured. When we think how lucky we were, the question was why were we so lucky. Does God have a plan for us? If so, what does he want us to do?
Now that the first trip was done, we have to figure out what we want to do next. We have reservations for a travel trailer in West Yellowstone (5/29/2017-6/8/17) where we will be meeting up with David and Susan McManus. In fact, we had just extended the stay to include the 5/29/17 the day of the accident. We also have reservations for the Grand Tetons for the next week.
After a little discussion we decide we would like to see Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons.
Todo list for tomorrow so far:
- Now that we have decided to go to Yellowstone & Grand Tetons,
- how do we get there
- where do we stay?
- What do we do with stuff we do not need
- How do we get everything home including Max, Vicki & I?
- Big Bend National Park
- Grand Canyon National Park
- Upper Antelope Canyon
- Horseshoe Bend
- Arches National Park
- Canyonlands National Park
- Bryce Canyon National Park
- Zion National Park
- Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
Paul and Vicki Kristoff
photo@kristoffs.com
PaulKristoffPhotography.com
paulkristoff.blogspot.com/
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