Blogs from Utah, United States, North America

We spent today exploring Bryce Canyon and as you can see from the photos it was an amazing place. There are a number of viewing points with each providing a different perspective of the amphitheatres. The main viewing points were called sunrise point, sunset point, inspiration point and Bryce point, with Bryce point having an elevation of 8300ft. We saw a little chipmunk on one of the paths around Bryce Canyon and so took his photo and added it to the blog. He said his name was Alvin... After Bryce Canyon we drove to Monument Valley which has some iconic landmarks and locations that have been used in various western films - including a number starring John Wayne. Our room balcony has an amazing view of monument valley. We have a sunrise tour organised for tomorrow ... read more

Depart a 8h45, 30220 miles au compteur. Arret juste apres Boulder pour faire quelques photos. Arret a Escalante pour prendre de l'essence, 9,358 gallons pour 36,49$ et 30291 miles. Nous continuons jusqu'a Bryce Canon que nous visitons grace a la navette gratuite et qui est plus beau en vrai qu'en photos. Nous allons ensuite au Zion National Park ou nous utilisons egalement la navette gratuite pour visiter le site. A chaque fois 25$ par voiture (de 2 ou 9 personnes) et une heure et demi pour les visites. Nous arrivons finalement a Hurricane a 20h30 au Rodeway Inn. Premiere impression bonne, mais impossible de se connecter a Internet, donc impossible de faire le blog de la journee, et aucune aide du personnel.... read more

Depart a 8h45, 29781 miles au compteur. Nous partons pour Canyonland. Au bout d'uns cinquante de kilometres, nous arrivons a l'entree du parc, mais le gardien mous annonce qu'on ne peut pas rejoindre la partie nors ni "Dead Horse Point". Nous faisons demi-tour et prnons la direction de Moab, que nous traversons une heure plus tard et continuons jusqu'au "Dead Horse Point State Park", et la, bonne surprise, il y a de beaux points de vue. Le "Dead Horse Point" designe une poche abritee du soleil dans lequel les mustangs venaient se reposer et qui se referme pour laisser un passage d'une trentaine de metres ou les cow-boys avaient mis une cloture. Les cow-boys se servaient de ce corral naturel pour capturer les chevaux sauvages et laisser repartir les chevaux de moins bonne qualite. une fois, ... read more

From the Grand forested mountains and cool weather of Jackson Hole we headed to the hot red rock desert of Moab, UT (stopping for a short time along the way at the Great Salt Lake and Park City Utah...in the last blog) The change in landscape and weather was dramatic - for us and the pooch - daytime highs in Jackson were mid 60's and daytime highs in Moab were mid 90's with a hot direct sun overhead. Moab is renowned for mountain biking and lays the claim that the sport originated there. Needless to say our 3 days in Moab were all about biking. Day 1 - We rode the Klondike Bluff trails, moderate and not too technical. Shan is morphing into a mountain biker... That evening we headed into Arches National Park for a ... read more

We know you all have a certain expectation of what crazy thing are we going to do next, or where we are going next, so this year Anthony plan our vacation to a WARMER destination than our last years week in the back country of Montana, where we wore all of our clothes the entire week to keep warm. After all we don't want to let you down. So we headed to Utah - Zion National Park and Bryce Canyon. Bordered by Las Vegas 3 hours one way and Salt Lake City 3 hours the other way. Warmer? We awoke yesterday morning to 38 degree temps - and me without the first boggin, gloves, earmuffs or parka! However, after putting on what I did have and managing to get something to eat we found that it ... read more