Near disaster on the road

Early today morning while we had just started on the day's journey and had entered Yellowstone, I lost focus while at the wheel at had a real scare. Took my eyes off the road for too long while meddling with the audio controls on the steering wheel, and the car was off the road and speeding on the dirt at around 35-40 miles an hour. Took me a few seconds to get control of the car and get it back on the road.

It would certainly have been very serious if the same incident had happened on one of the many cliffs in Yellowstone!

Took a few minutes break from driving; JH checked the wheels are all fine; and we were off on the road again with a more cautious mind-set.

I definitely intend to finish this road-trip and go on many more road-trips here, in other parts of US and the world, and also travel extensively by air, on water (and maybe even in space ) and my plans really don't have any room for these kinds of errors.

So from now on, it is EYES ON THE ROAD while driving, and as JH says NO MORE 'DETOURS' AND 'OFF-ROAD-TRIPS'.