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39°38'26.67"N 111°26'53.89"W in Google Earth
drop into street view and drive north about 1/4 mile.
That's me in the white truck on the left taking off from the the old dairy barn and turning left onto Day Road.
Weird eh?
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Paul in PA
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Aerial view shows a truck very much like Leon's parked next to the driveway. It must be his girlfriend's house.
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Dude, we are talkin' Utah here. Think about it.
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Just kiddin' ya, Leon.
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Yeah, my girlfriend of 45 years and mother of my children. It's the old dairy farm I grew up on. It was sold out of the family about 1976 and we bought it back a couple of years ago. A colossal mess I been cleaning up (should have it by winter). I'm going to use it as a site for a small precast concrete business (site with utilities and highway access). We are also using the house until we build a new one (precast concrete) a couple of years from now (hopefully). My dad built the house in 1957, we moved in about my fifth birthday.
I'm going to annex into the city with a commercial zoning. My neighbors that been fighting me (for 6 years) from building the plant are in for a big surprise when the county zoning regs no longer apply and that can't do a thing to stop me any longer.
That's cool Leon. I was checking your area out in Google Earth and realized I stayed just down the road from you in Ephraim Utah, circa 1982. Working for a seismic exploration survey company. We were a portable (helicopter) crew and got to tramp around in the hills to the east. Like 10,000' + hills. Some of the prettiest country I've ever seen.
They are still looking for oil around here. Just started a new well at Moroni (8 miles SW). It will be the first horizontal well in the county. Drilling into the Mancos shale. Wife has her fingers crossed as her family owns mineral rights in the next section (not in the pool for this well). If they extended the horizontal drill hole another half mile from where it will end (660 feet from the lease line) it would go right through their property. Hope she will share if it comes in!
Yeah, I been working in those mountains this year. Got a small 20 lot sub going at Joe's Valley Reservoir (about straight east of Ephraim almost all the way across the mountains to the next valley). It's an hour and a half drive one way through the mountains to get there, more than half on a gravel road. I see that Google street view now covers the Orangeville road from Ephraim to all the way over. About half that road is dirt not gravel. It's a gravel freeway from Ephraim to the top of the mountain. But from there to Joe's Valley not so good then paved. So anyone that wants to see what this area looks like they can.
Wow - that is amazing that they street viewed such a wild, remote gravel road.
"Driving" portions of it reminded me of the fun we had trying to make sense of where we were in the huge expanses of aspens:
One of the surveyors pictured was a Utah native. One day I was working along a stretch of line and came across a grove of big aspens where 1800s pioneers had carved their names (I think it was a pass along one of the immigrant trails). I told him that I found a tree that had the names of folks in his family (his last name was very uncommon). He said "Oh, that was my great grand parents". I told him I'd take him to see it but he politely declined. He'd been estranged from his family a long time and didn't want to have anything to do with them. Not even the long dead ones. It was sad. I hope in the ensuing 30+ years he's come to terms with them.
34°54'6.28"N 92°24'8.23"W in the median
We saw the google car here a few months ago. I smiled for the camera
Must be one of the two guys by the excavator.
In the survey truck
OK. I was going into the wrong lane of the highway. Looks like they drive both directions on divided highways (Interstates).
I passed on my chance to work for Kiewit in 2002. I was working as a part time consultant on the I-15 rebuild for the Salt Lake Olympics. They offered to put me on full time. I would have made a lot more money in the following years but decided I didn't want to move all over the US for work.
I passed in 1998 for what amounted to about $0 75/hr . I look at the 15 yr guys now and kick myself in the butt every morning when I wake up :'(
I was caught driving to pickup my sons from school last year. Just now noticed it is up on street view.
43°19'18.51" N, 89°43'50.26" W
I have the gray Kia Soul.
