Blogs from Bryce Canyon, Utah, United States, North America - page 2

Scenic Byway 12, Utah’s All-American ?? Road ? omg!!! Ear popping jaw dropping...thru Dixie National Forest ? reaching the Summit - 9600 ft. If you ever get a chance, check out this road sometime...simply stunning. Karen is going to look up all the scenic byways in the U.S. ? We drove thru Boulder, Tree ? City USA. Crazy ? dramatic steep and narrow road...no shoulder or guard rails. Scary ? Many stops along the way, including the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument. It is not a staircase per se...the name is a reference to the series of cliffs rising from south to north from the foot of the Kaibab Plateau (adjacent to the Grand Canyon) to the rim of Bryce Canyon. Speed limit 25 mph - definitely obey the speed limit on this road ?? It’s ... read more

we are heading East, and I'm late on blogging, but it's only the beginning of a huge delay....impossible to drive, organize, work a little and play even more! We are starting our little Utah and Arizona visit by a stop in Zion than on to Bryce Canyon. I was back here with Leslie and Tiffany on the first days of January 2013! Yes, that was while we were living in Buenos Aires! Visiting all those landmarks early January means two things...first, thin crowds, second, freezing temperatures! We had none of those for our visit. We left Las Vegas at 6.15 in the morning....it was already pretty hot...but good surprise, Zion, our first stop, would not be as warm as Vegas! We are at a way higher altitude here! i paid the 80usd yearly fee for the ... read more

After our great stay in Moab, had breaky at the local diner and headed out of Moab at around 9.00a.m. for the 4 1/2hr run down to Bryce Canyon, love driving through Utah so scenic, the scenery changes every few klms, it seemed like no time and we were arriving at Ruby's Inn in Bryce Canyon. Booked in and then decided to do a run into the Bryce Canyon National Park, it did not disappoint, stunning place! Took us 4-5 hrs to get around all the sites....but like all the other National Parks we have been you could spend days here hiking all the trails but we did get to see all the most important sites and did a few short walks. A lot cooler here in Bryce Canyon, altitude 9,100ft as opposed to Moab at ... read more

Our stay in Eagle just kept extending. We were only going to visit for a few days but then it was well, there’s a free Gig on Wednesday in Avon, oh and on Thursday there is a band in the Park, and at the weekend there is a three day Guitar Festival, not to be missed and so on. This was all great the only problem being we were still in the car park that said “no overnight parking” Terry contacted the local authorities, explained the situation and we got a pass to stay until Tuesday. So on Saturday we happily set off to the Guitar Festival only once halfway there to receive a call from Terry’s son, Karl to say the police had changed their minds, we had to move. However they did suggest we ... read more

Last day in Yosemite we took a short hike in Nelder Grove and walked amongst the giant sequoias, oaks and firs, some you could walk through and others so tall it made my neck tire from looking up. The fur cones were as large and long as my shoes. The dogs loved it and so did we. We stopped for the night at Barstow at the KOA in the middle of the Mojave desert, the wind was whipping and there was basically nothing else around except sand and a few fellow campers stopping on the way to wherever they were going. Monday and Tuesday we spent a little time wandering our way back down on the strip in Vegas and enjoyed the craziness of it all. This was a bit of city life before heading to ... read more