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