It was roughly a nine and a half hour drive from Pike's Peak to Bears Lake, UT. So with all those lonely miles yawning ahead of me, I decided to give Sam a call and check on him, Emily, and the kids. I hadn't spoken to them since I'd gone rogue. I figured it would be a little while before he headed into the shop, so it would be a good time to call and talk to them all at once.
When he answered, I could hear the kids giggling in the background. He seemed happy to hear from me - it was hard to tell those kinds of things with Sam sometimes - and we talked for almost an hour. Both of the kids tried to talk to me at the same time, both piling words on top of their sibling's words and jumbling it all up, but somehow I managed to keep up with them. Sam Jr. was excited about being on the loca
