On The Road Again

Linda Gail

Penny Ann

left to right white blouse Pat, blue blouse Darla, pink blouse Anita, purple blouse me Rosie , red, white blouse Bonnie. This is all my sister's.

Well we left Clovis, NM yesterday morning and in Carthage, MO now. Spending the night here and then going to Montgomery City, MO for a State Winnebago meeting.

We stayed in Clovis for a week and I got to go to Lubbock and see all my sisters. Pat flew in from Silver City, Darla and I drove over from Clovis to get her and then we spent part of the day with Linda and Penny. We spent the night with Bonnie and Annita came over the next morning from breakfast, then we took Pat back to the air port and we went back to Clovis. This was Friday the 14th and Sat morning the 15th. We sure had a good time.

I don't know what is going on with the blog site but it will not let me post pictures now. I have resized them and tried and still will not do it. So I may go to myspace and try it there. Check the my space site and if you don't have the address send me a note and I will send it to you. Would try and put it in here but would lose this site if I did and would just have to come back.

Maybe I can get the picture thing figured out while we are in Branson. We are going there after the State meeting and will be staying about three weeks I think.

We are doing good and having a good time. Well look here this one loaded.........well got them all to load on this one so GOOD.

Coral Sand Dunes/ North Rim Grand Canyon

Ruins at the Grand Canyon

Big hole in the ground

What is left of trees from a forest fire but don't know how long ago.

More of the hole in a different place

looking across the canyon

This is called Angel window

Just more of it

Coral sand dunes,,, colors are pretty

More on sand dunes... Added pictures on 9/18/07

Coral Sand Dunes/ N Rim Grand Canyon

9/4/07

Well today we left home at 9:10 am and started off to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. We stopped on the way at the Coral Sand Dunes, it cost $5.00 a car up to 8 people to get in since it’s a state park. It was ok for a sand dune I guess the sand is pretty. Don’t know how the color will show up in the pictures but it is coral looking. They say this is the only place in the world with coral sand.

Went on to the North Rim and spent a lot of time there. It’s neat and not near as many people that come in on the south side. We drove all we could in the park, stopped and had lunch, stopped at the visitor’s center got a pin to go on our trip tie and they gave us a free post card.

Didn’t see any wildlife except for some turkeys. Came back to Knanb, UT and stopped at the pizza hut and ate it was getting to be 7:00 PM by then. Stopped for more gas, filled up on the way up and then coming back since it was cheaper there then in Hatch. Got home right at 8:00 PM and boy was we tired. Put some stuff away, watched a little TV and went to bed. Will have to do the same with this one with the other will just have to post when I can and put pictures on.

We will be leaving here Thursday morning (the 6th) so going to clean house and put things away tomorrow to get ready to get on the road.

Bye now and love you all.

Zion/Cedar Breaks

We came home to a rainbow.
This is from Cedar Breaks

Cedar Breaks

Zion from here down sorry for the messy page.

Look close and you might be able to find the big horn sheep...

This is called the checkerboard mountain.

Zion pictures added on 9/18/07


9/01/07

Well today we went to Zion and Cedar Breaks. I think I drove over 200 miles again today. So we are taking tomorrow and maybe Monday off to rest up. We are tired and my ankle is still hurting me.

Zion is really different then Bryce and beautiful also. We came in on the east side from Mt. Carmel Junction. They have a Mesa there that is called Checkerboard Mesa and boy is that different. Will put a picture on when I can. Looks like I have a lot to do once I get good signal. Don’t know how far it was in but we came to a small tunnel through the mountain then we had one that is 1.1 miles long. It did have some windows in it but you couldn’t stop and look or take pictures, as soon as you came out of the tunnel it was a very winding road.

Didn’t get as many pictures in Zion as I did in Bryce because there is a six mile part you can not drive in and the only way to see it is to ride the shuttle. Which we did, we got on the shuttle at the visitors center and took it to the history museum. There we watched a film telling about the making of Zion and it was pretty good. We got back on the shuttle- which the first one was full so had to wait awhile and rode it as far as we could then rode it back to the visitors center. We didn’t get off again my ankle was hurting me to much to do much walking and Bill said it was just to hot to get out and do much walking so he didn’t want to go see anything that you had to walk to. When we got back to the car it said it was 106 degrees, after we got to going a little bit it went down to 104 so know it
was pretty hot.

We stopped in Springdale and found a little park so we could have lunch, it was almost 3:00 by then and I was getting pretty hungry.

We drove on the Cedar City and found a Wal-Mart to get a few groceries. Had the cooler with us for our lunch so that worked out pretty good since we need milk. As we were in the car trying to leave Wal-Mart this man came to the window and tapped on it. I rolled down the window and he ask in a real broken accent if I knew how to get to highway 14. I told him no I was not from there, and he went to this other lady in the parking lot. By then we had the GPS up and going and knew we was heading for 14 to go to Cedar Breaks so I honked at him and he came to Bill’s window and Bill told him, we are going to 14 to go to Cedar Breaks and he says “I follow you”. He went and got in a van that looked just like ours, same color and all and when I went to get in front of him say he had Missouri tags on his car. Don’t know what part of MO he is from, but he sure did not sound like he was from there. We thought that was pretty funny. He followed us and we found SR14 but he was so slow we didn’t see him but once more after we got to going and that was when we pulled off to look at the view and he passed us. When we pulled off we saw smoke off a long ways and it was a Zion overlook and the smoke was coming from that direction. I know a storm was coming up behind us and don’t know if maybe they had a lightening strike or what.
Got to Cedar Breaks and it was beautiful also. Sure makes us appreciate that we are able to see this and enjoy it. When we left the Zion area it was 102 degrees or more and when we got to the top of Cedar Breaks it was 66 degrees. Most of it would really be good for younger people that can get out and hike some of the trails in Zion, Bryce, Cedar Breaks.

We did see some rock climbers in Zion and boy do they have a lot to climb there. We got back to Hatch about 7:30 stopped and had a hamburger and then came home. Nice to be home again too. We still have North Rim of the Grand Canyon, Lake Powell and the Pink sand dunes to see around here yet. But like I said we are going to take tomorrow and maybe Monday off so the holiday people will have time to get off the road. Boy do you see and hear the people from other countries here. I don’t think anyone speaks English any more at least in this part of the country. While on the shuttle we was on there with about 9 or so from Italy and they would get to talking between them self to where we could not even here the driver telling us what we was seeing.

Well that’s enough running off at the mouth for another day and just keep posted so you will see what we are up to.

Bryce Canyon UT

Natural bridge

Bryce Canyon added pictures on 9/18/07

8/31/07

We went to Bryce Canyon today and had another full day. We got to Hatch, UT yesterday and staying a week to see things in the area. Have lots to see and do. I took 164 pictures today and know I can’t put enough on here to do justice with what we seen. I’m doing this in word and then when I get online go in and copy and paste it in the blog. Going to put one picture on here and see if it will copy and paste also because if it does it will be faster then downloading each picture when I get on the site. The only thing is I don’t think you can enlarge the picture to look at it so this will be a try and see only that’s why I’m only going to put one picture on to see.
Like I said this is only one of 100+.

We are doing well just tired. Bill is having trouble with his shoulder and me with my foot. Found out today what is wrong with it. I thought it was because I turned it while we was out at Capital Reef the other day but its from all the driving I have been doing and I catch myself even with the cruise on with having my foot at a angle and keeping it flared up. So I tried to watch that today and not do it.

This is sure beautiful country around here and we have been a lot of miles since we got here. I hope I can get this posted in the next day or so and put more pictures on it. Some that will enlarge so you can see some of what we are seeing. Our internet is not good here we have full signal but it is just so slow we can’t even read the paper most of the time. Like now I have it on and it goes from four bars to one so don’t know if I can get on the blog or not. We are planning on going to town in the morning for breakfast since we have no milk and the only milk we could find in town was 4 days past sell date, and the café has high speed so will take the computer with me and use it.

Well going to try and see if I can get on now so bye for now and love you all.

Well the picture did not copy and paste so guess I can’t do it that way. We also went to the Grand Staircase- Escalante National Monument was disappointed in it don’t know if we didn’t go at the right place or what. But was getting pretty tired, the book I got said it is a hikers dream so I know that lets me out. We did see some different formations and pretty rocks but just not what I thought it would be. It extends across 1.9 million acres ( more then 3,000 square miles of Utah public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management. I really think we just went in at the wrong place but don’t know. Bill said go in on the internet and put in Grand Staircase-Escalante N.M. and see if there is more to see, but that is a little hard to do right now since I can’t seem to get on and do anything. I haven’t even been able to check my mail for three days now, so will have to find someplace to get on maybe in the next two days.