Blogs from Page, Arizona, United States, North America - page 8

Het is 6.30... veel te vroeg om al wakker te zijn op congee. Om 7.30 hebben we al een excursie gepland naar Antelope Canyon, dat gebeurt met enorme 4x4 jeeps. Dat zou mooie foto's moeten opleveren. De rest van de dag rijden we dan door naar Las Vegas. Vier dagen! Ik zet al mijn verbaasde gezicht op en oefen tussendoor mijn 'pokerface'.... read more

Monday October 13, 2008 Today was Canadian Thanksgiving, and Columbus Day in the US. We celebrated by doing something that was on Kayla’s ‘must do’ list - a slot canyon. Antelope is one of the most famous and most photographed, so we had lots of company. But we didn’t care and had a great time. Getting there was half the fun. We were shuttled in by a Navajo driver in the back of an open-air truck designed for lots of power in soft sand, much like the tour in Monument Valley. It only took about 20 minutes to get from the town of Page to the canyon entrance. Slipping and sliding in the soft pink sand, we were jostled about and whipped by very cold winds, since it was only 12 C (54 F) today, even ... read more

8/7 - 11/708 Kære familie og venner Dette er 2. mail/rejsebrev fra vores USA-rejse som omhandler: * Jesus Kristus, de sidste dages hellige (mormonerne) * Familien * Trafikulykken * Da tornadoen tog vores mad * Mødet med klapperslangen i Zion. Dagen før mødet med Bjerregaard-slægten i Utah, så vi regeringsbygningen og ”mormonkirken” eller templet, der var bygget af store klippeblokke transporteret fra bjergene med hestevogn i år 1857 og årene efter. Pudsigt at tænke på, at Anders Bjerregaard, der emigrerede til Utah, formentlig har været med til at skabe dette imponerende bygningsværk - og sikkert har siddet i den bygning vi sad i, da vi mødte China en dansk missionær, som Hillerødderne kendte. Nogle af vores amerikanske familiemedlemmer er tilknyttet kirken, og vi fik samtaler om flerkoneri, hvilket de nu også tager afstand fra, og som ... read more

Leaving Zion After a day of driving through southern Utah and northern Arizona, we agee that nothing is quite as impressive as Zion Canyon. We crossed the famous mile long tunnel on Route 9 that was constructed as a shortcut to Bryce Canyon at the behest of the railroads. The tunnel was interesting only from a historic standpoint as it was not easy to construct and was the longest tunnel at its time. We had been told by our tour guides that when we crossed to the other side we would enter into a different world and we truly did. Gone were the sheer jagged cliffs cut by the Virgin, in were smooth undulations of thin sandstone sheets. The white and red sandstone was still there but rather than shaved pieces of rock, it looked like ... read more

Tuesday the 13th, Geoff was up and out at dawn to catch the sunrise at Horseshoe Bend, and was greatly gratified to have a couple of hours to capture images unimpeded by either other tourists or scratched plexiglass. "The light was optimum for photos and really showed the canyon to advantage! It's a breathtaking spot. You walk up the the lip of the canyon and it's a sheer maybe thousand foot drop, a long-ish way," he recounts. When he arrived back at the motel, the breakfast crowd was departing for the diner that proffered the heart-attack-heaven hamburger the night before, which was now offering the coronary-bypass breakfast special. "Good food and plenty of it..." After breakfast, some of the group repaired to the motel for R+R+L (rest, recuperation and laundry), while Dick, Ruth and Geoff embarked ... read more