RV Trip'N

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

We are wearing out our shoes not to mention our bodies!

Today we ventured into Bryce Canyon, which I think is the most beautiful place in the world. There are so many people from around the world that English is hardly spoken here. There are bus loads of people from Japan, Germany, France and Russia, very few Americans. Many foreigners rent RVs and tour the west. They must have weeks of vacation.

Hiking in Bryce is breathtaking not only for the scenery but also for the fact that all the hikes start at the top, wander around the canyon floor, then the inevitable trek back up. It's the up that kills. We did manage to take some beautiful hikes, our favorite trail was closed for repair, but we did manage to find some new favorites.

We will be traveling to some remote places in Utah for the next week or so, and we may not be on line for a while, we will try our best to keep up our blog so just keep checking. Hope you like the pictures.

HooDoo's of Bryce

Descending trail to valley floor

Rental RV's are all over the west

German RV

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Kodachrome Basin State Park and Bryce Canyon

Today we took the short drive to Bryce Canyon, we are staying right outside the park because there are so many other attractions in this area. We took a day trip to Kodachrome Basin State Park to see the unique rock formations while we were there we took a hike called the Angel's Palace. The weather here is a lot cooler because of the altitude. The park is pretty and has lot of shorter hiking trails and a very nice campground. We than took the Moss Cave hiking trail which is closer to Bryce, and actually part of the National Park, this was a very pretty trail leading to a moss filled water dripping cave and had a turn off to a beautiful waterfall.

We are staying at the Bryce Canyon Pines Campground, we needed electricity because it can still get down below freezing at night, tomorrow we will be in Bryce and hike some of the many trails they offer.

Happy Birthday, Jen hope you had a great day.

Kodachrome Basin State Park

Kodachrome Basin State Park, Angel's Palace Trail

Bryce NP, Moss Cave Trail

Coral Pink Sands State Park

We left the Zion National Park area and traveled to Coral Pink Sands State Park. The trip took us through the area in Arizona named the Arizona strip. This area is noted for plural marriages among the Mormon settlers. We passed through a couple of strange towns......

Coral Pink Sands state park is a small but very pretty park. We are back in camping mode while here as we do not have any hookups, not an RV resort. They do have great showers however. The area has huge sand dunes and is a favorite with the four wheelers that mainly come on the weekends. We are in a higher elevation then we have been and the weather is much cooler. This morning it was in the 50's.

We are on our way to Bryce Canyon National Park........more from there

Sunday, April 29, 2012

Zion National Park

Today we spent the day hiking in Zion. This is a very unique place, it's an incredibly beautiful park but you can only drive through part of it. Zion has a free shuttle service that takes you where you can't drive. The shuttle service runs in both directions every seven minutes and takes you to all the trail heads in the park.We drove in and parked at the museum and spent the rest of the day hiking and riding the shuttle.

The trails here are really fun, we took two easy hikes, the River Walk and the Weeping Rock Trail. The Weeping Rock trail leads to a series of cliff side springs above an overhang, the water drops in droplets that just glisten in the sun. We than took the Emerald pools Trail, that was a moderately difficult trail and leads to a series of three small waterfalls, the water seeps through the canyon ceiling, and falls down through the rock, you walk right through the mist, the walls of the canyon are hanging gardens of moss and flowers. The last pool has a white sand beach and towering cliffs rising above it, it's just breathtaking. We also took the Canyon Overlook Trail, another moderately difficult trail with a very steep incline, and a very high and narrow path, it lead to a beautiful lookout over lower Zion Canyon.This is one of the most beautiful National Parks we have ever been in, I sure hope that you enjoy our pictures.

Zion National Park

Emerald Pools Trail

Richard needing an asthma break

Emerald Pools Trail

Canyon Overlook Trail


Canyon Overlook Trail

Pa'rus Trail

Saturday, April 28, 2012

Beautiful Death Valley

Welcome to California (Death Valley)

Sorry but we have been off line for the last two days because we were in Death Valley, we had full phone service but no wifi. I had some misgivings about going to Death Valley because it had been so hot in AZ. but the weather was beautiful, sunny, windy, and hot during the day and cool and breezy in the evening. We toured Scotty's castle, did a lot of hiking in the canyons and down on the salt flats. This is such a beautiful, quiet place, we both hated to leave but the gas prices are so high and the sights are so far apart,the park is huge, each time we come back we try to see a different area of the park. Today we are heading into Utah.