We spent the last two days couch surfing in Cedar City, Utah (HUGE town of 20,000). It was our first time couch surfing, and I was quite pleased with the outcome. When we got into town on Thursday afternoon, we called our host, Theresa, a soccer coach at Southern Utah University. We met at her apartment, where she presented us with the code to her apartment building, a key to her apartment, and a key to an empty (but furnished!) apartment that was ours for two nights. The couch surfing project is really cool—I was a bit skeptical at first (meeting strangers on the internet and then sleeping in their houses?), but there’s a pretty good screening process, and I definitely felt a sense of mutual trust.
Friday we had our rest day and just sort of got our lives together. After doing the laundry and grocery shopping (Polygamy Porter is a beer here..is that PC?), we went back to Theresa’s apartment for dinner. We grilled turkey burgers outside, where we enjoyed the sun and surrounding red cliffs. Cedar City is a beautiful town.
Several programs the city is lacking, however, include compost and recycling. Cedar City has neither program available to its residents, which was displeasing to Theresa and her roommate. The lack of recycling is just another example of the inefficiency of the transportation system, economics, and the difficulty of living in such a rural part of the country.
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