It's Wednesday June 4th and we have been in St. George waiting for parts to come in to fix our refrigerator. Camping World screwed up the parts order twice so we just hung out here and waited. St George is basically a hugh Snowbird place. Basically most of the Snowbirds are gone, they leave here in March and April because the temperatures start going into the high nineties and above. The day we got here it was 99 degrees. But it's a dry heat.
They installed our refrigerator fans today so we are off to Vegas in the morning. In addition to the two days I cut out of our Bryce Canyon visit we lost another day so we cut one out of Death Valley NP. The temperatures there are in the 115 degree range so cutting a day is probably not a bad idea.
Mark and Kathie have gone on to Las Vegas and we will join them tomorrow.
Life is Good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Bryce Canyon June 1st
On Sunday June 1st we moved to Bryce Canyon. We had originally planned to be here for three nights but we have been having Refrigerator issues and I have scheduled a repair job at St George, Utah for Monday 6/2. It didn't happen, Today is June 3rd and we have been here in St George for two days waiting for the parts that were supposed to be here on Monday. Hopefully we will get our repairs tomorrow and move on to Las Vegas on Thursday. Mark and Kathie stayed in Bryce Canyon for the three days and hopefully had a great visit. We will meet them in Las Vegas.
Our ride from Torrey to Bryce was beautiful but unbelievably wild. Highway 12 is a Scenic Byway that goes through what is called the Grand Staircase-Escalante. This is a series of canyons that step down giant valley to giant valley. It is magnificent. The road is very windy and narrow and at one point we were driving on a ridge that was slightly wider than a two lane road, with no guardrails and drops of 600 to 1000 feet on each side. Needless to say I saw very little of the beautiful scenery due to the fact that
my eyes were glued to the road. Eileen who has a fear of heights was taking pictures at the same time that she was helping me drive. We stopped shortly after crossing this ridge to take a deep breath and stop the shaking of our hands.
Although Eileen did take many pictures you can't get the depth perception from the top of the ridge. Just another gorgeous part of this beautiful state.
I came to Bryce this one day to walk in the Hoodoos. These are formations of tall spires of red sandstone that have been eroded over millions of years. These are the formations that make Bryce Canyon what it is. Eileen stayed in the Bus due to her altitude sickness, but Kathie, Mark, and I did a 2.9 mile hike down about 400 feet into the canyon on a portion of the Navajo Loop trail returning to the top on the Queens Garden Trail. We were all sucking for air when we got back to the top but the experience was everything that I had hoped it would be. I had been thinking about doing this hike ever since 2008 when I passed it up. I sure hope my pictures will give you some idea of the beauty.
No pictures of the ridge ride on the Grand Staircase because our eyes were closed!
Kathie and Mark!
Pine nuts!
This is incredible!!
Our ride from Torrey to Bryce was beautiful but unbelievably wild. Highway 12 is a Scenic Byway that goes through what is called the Grand Staircase-Escalante. This is a series of canyons that step down giant valley to giant valley. It is magnificent. The road is very windy and narrow and at one point we were driving on a ridge that was slightly wider than a two lane road, with no guardrails and drops of 600 to 1000 feet on each side. Needless to say I saw very little of the beautiful scenery due to the fact that
my eyes were glued to the road. Eileen who has a fear of heights was taking pictures at the same time that she was helping me drive. We stopped shortly after crossing this ridge to take a deep breath and stop the shaking of our hands.
Although Eileen did take many pictures you can't get the depth perception from the top of the ridge. Just another gorgeous part of this beautiful state.
I came to Bryce this one day to walk in the Hoodoos. These are formations of tall spires of red sandstone that have been eroded over millions of years. These are the formations that make Bryce Canyon what it is. Eileen stayed in the Bus due to her altitude sickness, but Kathie, Mark, and I did a 2.9 mile hike down about 400 feet into the canyon on a portion of the Navajo Loop trail returning to the top on the Queens Garden Trail. We were all sucking for air when we got back to the top but the experience was everything that I had hoped it would be. I had been thinking about doing this hike ever since 2008 when I passed it up. I sure hope my pictures will give you some idea of the beauty.
The Ride to Bryce!
Bryce Canyon NP!!
The beauty speaks for itself.Kathie and Mark!
This is Queens Garden!
The trail looped to Queens Garden we had to go another way!
Pine nuts!
This is where we started. About a half a mile away on the rim!
The HOODOO's from Bryce Point!!
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