It was a long days drive to Bryce National Parkbut some stunning scenery on the way made the journey pleasant. Bryce is the smallest of the Utah’s National Parks but its beauty is definitely not small. We had not booked a campsite and tried to get into North Campground within the National Park itself but just missed the last spot so continued back to Ruby Inn Campground just outside the park. We had to move three times to find a good spot as a lot of the spaces were really cramped with very large RVs taking up so much room. Some of these are even larger than a 60 seat coach and often they tow a smaller car which also needs a space. Many of the campgrounds are geared towards these and they drive straight into ... read more

I continue this blog with part two of our travels around Yellowstone National Park it is such a huge park that I have split it into two blogs. On our way back to our campsite at West Yellowstone which is actually in Montana whilst Yellowstone itself is in Wyoming we again came across a queue of traffic - but this time we managed to pull off the road and head down to the river where we got our fist glimpse of a huge Grizzly Bear. A few people were heading back to their cars as we arrived as they said it was such a long way off across the river that they could not see it - luckily with our new lens and Paul's binoculars we managed to see and get a distant shot. This large ... read more

Blog 14 South Dakota & Wyoming - 8 to 12 June 2014 This is going to be a really long blog again as we seem to have done so much in such a short time but wanted to record it all but you need not read it all………. Our first stop in South Dakota was going to be the Mammoth Museum near Hot Springs but with the bad weather the ‘world and his dog’ had also decided it would be a good place to go and there was a large crowd so we decided to continue our journey instead. justify; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Chalkboard; mi... read more

We left Moab via the Colorado River Bridge and took the slightly longer scenic road along route 128 which was a spectacular drive following the Colorado River Gorge. For the first 13 miles we followed the river within a narrow section of the gorge, providing breathtaking views of the surrounding red sandstone cliffs rising majestically all around us. The gorge then widened as the highway proceeded past Castle and the Professor Valleys, which have been the shooting locations for many western films including Wagon Master and Rio Grande, along with numerous television commercials. A little further on and the highway passed a viewpoint for one of the grandest views in the west, the red rock spires of the Fisher Towers set against the snowy covered peaks of the La Sal Mountains. After leaving the valley, the ... read more

We left Monument Valley, Utah early in the morning and detoured up country a little way to see the Mexican Hat - no not a restaurant but an inverted sandstone sombrero standing tall alongside the highway - the sun was in the wrong position but it was still easy to see why it was called the Mexican Hat…. We followed part of the ‘Trail of the Ancients’ the only national scenic byway dedicated to archaeology heading for the Four Corners Monument. This monument is the only place in the USA where four states intersect at one point. Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Colorado - so we have now ‘set foot’ in a couple more States - see photo. The location is very remote but the landscape around is really good - so well worth the visit. ... read more