I Want to Go to Map Land

So, today, my dear buddy Moe posts this on FB:

Did you ever see that Twilight Zone where this couple's car breaks down in some little town, or the one where they drive to the edge of the town and it always ends in the fog, or the one where they wake up in a little house they don't recognize with fake bread and it turns out they're now pets of some outer space child? Did you?

This is it. We are in The Twilight Zone. Or maybe The X Files.

Before we left, my brother  showed us this great X Files episode in which Scully and Mulder go to a gated community with a covenant from hell. If you don't follow the covenant (spoiler alert!) a Tibetan monster kind of like the monster in that beloved classic Forbidden Planet comes and eats you up (in gory ways.

Put up those pink flamingos or drive a weird little trailer and you're toast. Broken down, we sit and wait while the car dealers, KOA people, other cmapers  all act as if everything were normal, and on Facebook, the favorite post I've made has been one of Spock playing the banjo, not the updates about Creepyville.

We took a walk today since the winds weren't blowing so much. We found a lizard!




The winds! I'm looking for the equivalent of Ray Bradbury's Sun Domes ("The Long Rain") but these would be Calm Domes, where you can open a trailer door and it doesn't slam into the trailer side.

We walked and walked and kept hoping it was going to get better as we hit the main drag.

It didn't get better and I was all asthmaey from the cold I've caught and the dog was limping from thorns in his feet. We saw the grocery store far off in the distance and gave it up. This is what the main drag looked like:

HELP ME!!!!

We saw a Haliburton pickup truck. We saw an Amtrack type station, but found when we got back that train service was cancelled in May 1997. There wasn't a sidewalk anywhere that did not turn into broken rubble.

Scott went to do laundry and found this map in the KOA room:

Map Land!

I want to go to Map Land, where there are green trees and everywhere it's cute, even the bar and grill. But of course, you follow the map and bwaaahaahaa! You're in the dry roaring winds and the rock monsters are coming, driving screeching trucks and yelling. 

Scott just found little marks on T-Lou and freaked out about ticks.



Yeah, ticks and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. We're right in tick season, but we didn't see any, we don't THINK. When I Googled "Rawlins, WY ticks," I got a list of Rawlins' domiciles: Quality Inn, West Way Lodge, Bel Air Inn Restaurant and Lounge! The invasion of the ticks!

We want to go home. We want to go home. We want to go home. We are trapped! They're coming....