JOHNNY'S JOURNEYS : FOUR CORNER STATES 2009 July 10, 2009 (Friday) It seems like we just went to bed...at one a.m. Now the 5:20 alarm greets me. So much preparation for the trip, especially coordinating a paint job for the house, while we are away. Bethany's best friend, Hannah, will be traveling with us. Her family arrives about 6:30. We leave our house and arrive at the Mobile airport before 8:00. There is time to take a few pictures of the girls at the “family” sculpture out front. Check-in with Continental Airlines goes smoot [View Full Entry]

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I was able to go to Bryce Canyon when I was onshored in Salt Lake last year. Me and my office mates woke up early in the morning.. around 5AM and we were on the road to Bryce by 6AM. It was a good thing that one of my office mate knows his way around Utah so we were able to get to Bryce without getting lost on the road.. We passed through the scenic road.. seeing red canyon and all the amazing rock formations.. We stopped near red canyon to take pictures and to rest for a while after the [View Full Entry]

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The drive from Bryce to Capitol Reef was uneventful through Utah 12, except there are lots of zig-zag and up hills down hills. It makes you feel like that it will never end, but in a good way. The scenary was beautiful. Most of the hills are red-soiled, with Aspen turning gold in the autumn sun. We watched the west side of Capitoal Reef in the sunset from an overlook before we arrived at Torrey. Stayed overnight at the Best Western right next to the park entrance. The next morning, we headed over to the park. First stop: Panoramic Point. A [View Full Entry]

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Staying in Boulder for two weeks worked out thanks to Joe’s hospitality and my own need for daily yoga, “job thinking” and space. The majority of my time was spent taking fitness classes, watching half a season of Firefly and pirating internet from Barnes and Noble (and sometimes Panera just for variety). Boulder is tucked into the beautiful Rocky Mountain foothills that are glowing with fall colors this time of year, so when I wearied of sitting at the computer, the environment was A+. A quick decision to leave Colorado led me to Mystic Hot Springs - an amazing natural s [View Full Entry]

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We got an early start from Zion, hoping to snag one of the first-come, first-served campsites at the North Rim. The forecast was for daytime temps in the 60s, 40s at night. Pretty good camping weather. However, when we arrived at Grand Canyon Natl Park, it was only about 45 degrees, and the campsites were all filled. Probably best all around, as we were pretty done with cold nights. We hiked out to Angels Landing, gasping for breath as usual in the high altitude, but the scenery was also breathtaking in its scope and variety. It seems as though there are [View Full Entry]

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A short stop in Salt Lake City in Utah! Then we went through Bryce national Park and Zion National Park. [View Full Entry]

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From Las Vegas, it was a pretty short drive to Zion National Park. When we reached the park, the good news was that there was a campsite available. The bad news was, if we wanted to stay 2 nights (we did), we would have to move to a different site, since we were in the "overflow" camping at a group site that would be occupied the following night. Not too bad, considering we would only have to drive about 200 yards. Since it was well into the afternoon by the time we set up camp, we decided to have an early [View Full Entry]

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Well we didn’t arrive late evening we actually arrived in Salt Lake City at 3am!!! It wasn’t the best train ride I must say. After leaving the observation lounge to avoid another round of "kumbya my lord" from the hippie and her new found “earth children” we went back to our seat and decided with only a few more hours to go we would watch a movie. Two and a half hours later we were now sat out in the middle of nowhere at midnight waiting for engineers to come and fix the lights that were presently on red due to [View Full Entry]

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Can you spot the snake? I can guarantee you it IS there somewhere... [View Full Entry]

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Finalement, nous avons réglé nos problèmes d'ordi. et le magnifique voyage continu. Donc après la superbe croisière, nous partons pour l'île de Vancouver sans la roulotte. Un premier arrêt à Victoria pour visiter la ville et le superbe Butchart Garden. Pour finir notre visite à Tofino à l'ouest de l"île, c'est le boutttt..... du boutttt.... de la routttt... transcanadienne officieusement car officiellement c'est à Victoria. Nous nous arrêtons au Pacific Rim National Park et puis au Rainforest trail, il y a dans cette forêts des arbres de 800 ans et jusqu'à 10 pieds de diamètre. D [View Full Entry]

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