FALL BREAK #1: The drive and the car:

I had to pick up the car at the airport, to get there I had called Tom (Lucile’s nephew) to get a ride. We met at Trolley square, and it turned out that Lucile was going there with some other family members, so we all had a small lunch together.
Tom drove me to the airport where I went to Budget’s front desk, and than all the trouble came!! I had rented the car on orbitz.com and called both them and Budget to assure that everything was ok, like that we could get all the insurances and it was ok that I was only 24. When I came they knew nothing about the cheap insurance and when I told them I was 24 they said we could not rent a car!! They transferred us to AVIS, whom match the rate. A lot of trouble with the insurance that we were supposed to have through orbitz.com ended up not being an option, so we got it through AVIS, which was more expensive, but it turned out to be a good idea.

Our first stop was at a ranch in south Utah next to Zion National Park. Manuel was invited to come to a ranch by his classmate Mike. I will tell more about Mike, his wife and her dad. The drive was about 4.5 hours, and half an hour of that was in heavy rain and a little bit of snow. We are going to stay at the Clear Creek Ranch for two nights.