Monday, December 7, 2009

Daybreak

So the other night I just drove around. I wasn't going anywhere specific, I was just going for the sake of going. I wound up in Herriman out by where Kennecott processes the heavier metals they unearth. To get to that lovely and scenic local I had to drive through Daybreak, a housing development that Kennecott started. It's a tremendous mess of one way streets and roundabouts, but it seems nice enough despite all that (and being miles away FROM ANYTHING GOOD). On my way back I noticed a collection of seemingly perfect ledges in a shopping area.

Before I get too far along, the whole place seems way too nice just to be a housing development. It's either A) a cult that's going to attempt to take over the valley or commit mass suicide or B) a huge cover up for what could only be a disaster of epic proportions that Kennecott somehow had a hand in. It's just weird out there. Anyway, back to the story...

I pull into a parking lot, hop out and begin to look around.

Side note: I feel that now is as good a time as any to let you know that I was wearing my gray hoodie, green beanie and black knit gloves. Sensible people would realize that I was just trying to keep from freezing to death. Idiots in an almost too perfect housing development/cult epicenter would think I came to rob people blind. Sorry.

All the ledges are the perfect height: just below knee high. And there are flat gaps galore! It's a hell of a spot. Or it would be if everything wasn't knobbed. (But hey! They have a fire pit that's going day and night!) I decided that it would be a better idea to go back in the daytime, so I left.

That was Wednesday. I come back Friday to be greeted with 36 degrees for a high, a fierce, bone chilling wind (Remember the fire pit?), and a family who was having their family portraits taken.

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I came for the ledges, but I stuck around for the giant metal guy leaning into the wind. How I missed him I'm not sure, but there he was.

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Daybreak may be full of cultist freaks who have been mutated by whatever is buried under their houses, but they do make a guy feel welcome buy having a fire going.

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