Just How We came to Such a State as This Without Really Trying......Part 11

The Road out of Zion

I mentioned that Greg was coming in the last blog(not his real name)..We had met him up in MacKay Idaho at free RV park where you could camp for a few days. We noticed right away that he was peculiar (not  going to mention everything) but we would watch him wash his clothes (expensive sports clothes) in a bucket near us in the evening and hang everything out all over his expensive van.)  He also picked up twigs and paper and started a fire each evening...but more then that this 6 foot 6 gentleman with a pony tail..just made us feel uneasy.

I think sometimes  you can just sense things about people and that is what we felt as well as the other things that I did not mention. Anyway he started talking to Pete one day and acted as if he believed the same way as Pete...we know now that that was just a ploy...a snake in rabbits clothing...lol.  (Once had a brother just like him).  But we  decided that maybe we were wrong and would give him a chance.   Soon though....he started disagreeing with Pete on the things that he had agreed with him on in the first place.  He claimed that he was not religious but a spiritual man and had traveled to many Asian countries to seek the truth.  (I believe it was for other reasons but not going to say what).  With those words we should have gotten a clue with this person but by now he had roped us in into thinking we were friends.  (Sometimes we are pretty clueless and ignorant ) ..and when we parted ways we would keep in contact....and we did.  We would talk to him on our cell phone as we made our way down through Utah and he made his way down through the west coast.  We did not ever expect to see him again …..but now I have caught up to the blog before this.....he texted that he was coming in to join us in the Zions park campground.

So in a few days he called asking us how to get to our campground.  Pete repeated it over and over but he could not find us..but finally he found the road and then zoomed right past us going on up that hairpin road I told you about.  Pete went after him in his truck honking and trying to get him to stop..while all the time on the cell phone I kept telling him to stop.  Finally he did and he turned his van around and followed Pete down.  Of course he said it was our fault and we just did not give him good directions.....duh.....

He did not like where we were parked so we showed him another spot up the road..which was an amazing spot but he did not like it either.  He thought we should all move to another spot somewhere else but we liked where we were at and did not want to move our rig again.  So he shut up about it.  I did say that I thought this area was the most beautiful place on earth and his reply was that he had seen much better.   (I wondered why he was sticking around there ….but we soon found out...even though  we still were kind of blind sided to his tactics.  ...so duh to us.....you could probably sell us anything ..lol like a swamp in Florida or an igloo in the Arctic....we are just not too bright in some areas ...lol

He is what I would call a siphon....or more like a snake charmer....he only knows how to squeeze  things out of people but never puts anything back.  This continued on during his whole stay with us.  We wound up feeding him,taking him places,putting up with his now many insults as we were to nice to say too much.  One day (and we always took him in our truck with us) Pete and him got out to go to the store.  I was pretty sick still from a heart attack in May...and as he got out set his wallet on the seat where he was sitting and next to me.   He came out of the store with a bag of stuff.  Did not think about it too much at the time but Pete told me later that Greg hit him for the money to pay for that stuff.  He did not offer to pay it back.  This guy was rich...he could see that we were not...and it did not bother him him at all to get all that he could get out of us.

A few days before we left we all decided  although Greg did not want me to go...but Pete talked me into it....we decided to go up that hairpin road. High above where we were camped.  I tell you it was very scary as I have fear of heights.....but finally when we got to the top and I could breath with relief...it was worth the fear I undertook.  It was beautiful.  Most of it was fenced off as it was a government facility..but there was also plenty of BLM land to camp on and such. At the edge the vista was more then breath taking as we all looked down upon Zions park.

Greg pushed Pete into going further to see more...I just could not go....was breathing hard and  not feeling so good...but I sat down and told them to go on. As they left a gentleman appeared...he was camping a short ways away  We did not know and I apologized for waking him.  I told him my health problems including a problem with lymph...with this his face lit up...he said I am a doctor and I know more about lymph then anyone else in the world.  I told him that Pete would want to talk to him   for sure. ( His name was Steven West and you can find him in Facebook.)..

Pete and Greg returned and there was immediate comradeship with these guys. In fact Pete had known this guys uncle many years ago who was also a doctor.  Soon Steves beautiful girlfriend came out and we started talking.  That was when I noticed Greg moving in on her and Dr. West...trying to get between pete and me and this couple.  Was so very weird. But we were there most of the day talking...going around Greg and getting a lot of good information....was a wonderful conversation.

Soon we drove back down to our campsite which was just as scary as going up and  had some dinner.  Greg started a campfire even after knowing that I was allergic to smoke....(he did this a lot).....and we talked for awhile but I went to bed because I was having trouble breathing because of the smoke.  It was our last night and he talked us into meeting up with him in Jacobs Lake Arizona.....so he took off and we took off the next day.  Was feeling pretty bad by this time.  Forgot to mention while down in St. George with Pete and Greg  ..had my first almost collapse ..could not breath and had to go back and sit in truck.

One thing I have not mentioned was how he kept trying to get our dog Tilly to come to him.  She  did not like him at all and Tilly likes everyone...but not him. He could not get around her and it frustrated him.   He was however rude to our cat who loves everyone and he roughly pushed her away when she came to him in OUR trailer and he did not bother  to ask to come in...he just came in and said he hated cats.

I was not too happy at the thought of meeting up with Greg...already dreading it and Pete was not to happy with the thought himself...but we had gotten roped  in again and we were just keeping our word.
On to Jacobs Lake.

To be continued