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Sweat the Small Stuff

A few years ago, Josh and I took a road trip to visit Capitol Reef National Park.  It is in the heart of red rock country.  We planned to camp at a primitive campsite with a pit toilet, but no water.  This campsite was far from the Visitors Center and main road.  We left our home much later than we should have.  We started to get anxious when we could not find our way to the campsite.  We were not even close and it became darker and darker.  We could not tell what road we were traveling on.  Even though we had a map, we were lost.  The lines on the map did not seem to tell us where we were, so we took a lot of guesses. I remember turning onto a dirt road.  It was dark, we were tired and in a hurry to find the right road to take us to our destination.  Josh was driving while I was still trying to figure out where we were on the map.  Because we were in the middle of nowhere and it was so dark, we relied on our headlights to s...