We left the craziness of Las Vegas behind and started our journey around the States. We headed first of all to Zion National Park. The prices of accommodation anywhere near the parks are really expensive and outside of the cities there are very few hostels, so we stayed in a small town, called Hurricane, about 20 miles down the road from Zion. We stayed around Zion for 3 days and enjoyed a few hikes around the spectacular canyon, with its multi coloured cliffs. The canyon was carved by the Virgin River, and the cliffs are made up of different sedimentary layers [View Full Entry]

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Our last morning at Bryce Canyon, we packed up camp and then drove the RV up to Rainbow Point, the southern-most and highest scenic lookout of the park. On the way back down we stopped at a few of the other scenic lookout spots, and then went all the way to the lowest part of the canyon at Moss Cave. It was a short hike up to a waterfall and then over to the cave, where dripping water that flows through the rocks allows moss to grow on the ceiling and sides, and feels good on your head in the heat! [View Full Entry]

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After a long but beautiful drive (11 hours) through Colorado and Utah yesterday, we arrived at the world famous Ruby's Inn just a quarter mile outside Bryce Canyon. The campground is nice and the boys have been on their bikes exploring and looking for license plates from all the states. They are up to 35 states so far! This morning we took a shuttle up to the park. We made a three mile hike, first along the rim and then down into the canyon. It was absolutely breath-taking! Going back up the side of the canyon was a tough hike but [View Full Entry]

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I decided to stay here for another night as it is such a nice place and I felt in the need for a bit of time to relax. All of my new acquaintinences have moved on this morning to other places, so I went for a walk along the rim trail to the north as I hadn't checked out that direction yet. The track along this way undulates alot and with the day warming up, the hills the altitude and my weedy legs (can't think of any more excuses) I lasted a couple of hours before calling it quits for the [View Full Entry]

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Bryce > Marysvale > Salt Lake City [View Full Entry]

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I got up early this morning to take advantage of the cool morning temperatures. I headed off to do some of the many trails through the canyon. Which isn't actually a real canyon, it is the edge of a high plateau which is eroding away. According to the NPS it will be all gone in about 3 million years, so get in quick if you are thinking of coming. The trails that I did started from close to the campground. I linked all or part of three trails together, the Queens trail, peekaboo loop and the Navajo trail. So I set [View Full Entry]

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I thought that I would be smart today and take a shortcut from Page to Bryce canyon. But I missed the intended turnoff. Not to matter I thought, I would just take the next road on my map heading that way. All was well for a while on a nice sealed road, which eventually turned into a dirt road much to my displeasure. If I was in my old Nissan ute I would have thought great the fun begins, but in he increasingly fragile Jag with its arthritic suspention it just made me cringe. As I chose to ignor the sign [View Full Entry]

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Happy 4th of July. We left Zion yesterday morning very early and headed east, yet again. We stopped in Bryce for about an hour. We would have liked to have camped but it was only about an hour drive away from Zion so we decided to go farther...much farther. We drove about 11 hours yesterday, through Capitol Reef and Blanding Utah. We ended up in Cortez Colorado at around 7pm, just in time to shower and find a fireworks show. The drive didn't see as long as it was because the scenery was so beautiful. There were new kinds of rock [View Full Entry]

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The heat is really starting to get to us, as it's now in the high 90s. It seems the further we go, the hotter it gets! (Just glad we have aircon in the car and loads of water in the boot) Bryce Canyon is our next national park. (Thank goodness we purchased the annual park pass, it has now paid for it's self and some..) This is the place for spectacular scenic views. We just loved the "hoodoos". Told you earlier that each of the National Parks, has something a bit different going for it. And it just gets better [View Full Entry]

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the most beautiful Nationalpark... [View Full Entry]

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