Al’s Famous Question

“Our photography group was driving back from Canyonlands National Park to Moab, UT during a furious blizzard at night. We could not even see as far as the front edge of the vehicle’s hood through the snow. Our treacherous terrain included driving over the “Knife’s Edge,” which is a place where the cliffs fall away from the road on both sides about one foot off the edge of the road. Alvin (who was deathly afraid of heights) then asked the now famous question for our group – “Where are we? I want to know where we are” – multiple times, only to receive the now famous answer, “Alvin, I know where we are, but you don’t want to know“.

The following morning, as we drove the same road back up to Canyonlands in the sunshine, it was then explained to Alvin where we had been, and he said “You were right Mark, I didn’t want to know where we were.”

— Mark Rasmussen