Travel journals

Tuesday, April 12th.
Rexburg, ID.

Brigham Young University - Idaho

This place is a religious private university. Kids are on semester break this week, so the library hours are atrociously short.

(Was supposed to be a swanky l'il panorama of the campus amphitheater
but Google Assistant was on vacation.)

The university uses students as janitors to clean glass along the stairwells and railings. Lots of regulations are posted - I think more to keep fermenting young men and women in a proper obedient mindset, than for sake of the rules themselves.

Bike parking needs a permit?
       No running for exercise on auditorium stairs? Who does that anyways?
             Gym shorts must be approved by the university store?

 I'm all out of chewing gum.


The place is nice enough. And it's much bigger than I expected. Legit; on the surface, it's a private university complete with modern buildings. Except for some paintings of Jesus, a few more dress shirts and ties, and some extra rules... it looks like any secular Big Box university.

Dat Sherlock glass on a chain is the kicker
gives 'finding Jesus' a new meaning

Found the pool locker room open for a free shower. You don't know how triumphant it feels to walk into a unsecured shower until you've wandered every campus corridor of every university in the hopes of finding one. Seemed like some kind of family open-swim going on. Never saw one of these doo-hicky-gizmos before:

'Dries your wet jammies in 8 seconds flat!'  I made that up.

I'm still nursing my throat cold... running around town doing nothing to coddle it. Tough love. Besides, I read in that vitamins book that the lymphatic systems needs vigorous motion to boost circulation, so disregarding my infirmity is good for it. No, wait that was Wikipedia - okay, I'm starting to think I made that up.

I felt really sick today though. Like a loose sack of yellow pus. I blame eating wayyyy too much salt in the form of french fries from McDonald's 'cause I found a winning Monopoly game piece for them. And having eaten two pounds of Macaroni Salad from Walmart - 192% daily recommended value of fat, 150% of saturated fat. I need an apple.