more thinking out loud. Speaks to his dad on the 9th, hangs up on dad (I assume this is out of character since he is so often described as polite and nice) and within a matter of hours is on his way on a road trip. I was just playing with yahoo maps and going from st george to salt lake to west wendover to ruby valley is not a direct route at all. According to yahoo it is 663.59 miles and 11hrs 48 mins. If you take out SLC and west wendover then it is 334 miles and 7 hrs 27 minutes. Another thing to make you wonder about. Why waste the extra time and gas money going more than 300 miles out of the way unless the point of the trip was to head towards salt lake for some reason. The receipts do not support 334 mile route, but most people choose the most direct route when they want to get somewhere. What was in Wendover or ruby valley? Also how in the world did anyone make a 1100 mile trip on what seems like no sleep at all in such a short period of time....
IICR, that trip seems to have started at the END of the day, as well. My husband has driven 1200 miles in one day, but he started early in the morning and was exhausted by the end of it. I know that we don't have any actual evidence of this, but it seems to me likely that there IS a component of SK's life that his family/close friends didn't know about -perhaps a friend or potential business partner, whatever- and that is why this is such a mystery. His manic traveling really wasn't manic -he had a driving partner, and he was going to meet someone in SCA, either the driving partner or someone connected to that part of his life that, for whatever reason, wasn't known to the others. Again, it's hard to follow something like this because of the very fact that that person(s) aren't known, but I just wonder if it explains some things. From what I understand about SK, I do think that it's certainly possible that he had "other people", "another person", etc. in his life that he didn't tell the others about. It needn't indicate anything nefarious, only that he had several, distinct, areas of his life which didn't overlap. If we think about it, many of us do, I think, especially when we are adult singles, living away from family and friends. Nothing nefarious; simply part of life.
I also know that there seem to be some questions surrounding those people who we all know about, but not having anything more to go on with regard to these people, I'm just starting to consider different possibilities. I know, I know, no evidence to follow, no suggestion in his computer, phone records, etc., but we also know he used the library (which computers can't be checked) and also there is that very long driving expedition, which doesn't seem to leave any reasonable amount of time for sleeping. Any thoughts?
