We had been looking forward to Zion for some time. Walt had been there in 1966 and our family spent several days at the Zion Lodge in 2001. It is a fantastically beautiful place with sheer canyon walls, tall peaks and the Virgin River flowing through the middle.  Martha was up at 2:00 AM EST […]

Walt & Martha traveled to Tropic, UT, on Tuesday, September 28th, to take an ATV tour with Grand Staircase ATV Tours (https://www.grandstaircaseatv.com/). We rode with our guide, Jerry, in a UTV and another couple rode ATVs behind us, into the national monument south of Cannondale, UT.  Jerry’s dad had worked for the Bureau of Land

We spent Tuesday, September 21st, getting acclimated to our new location.  Escalante, Utah, is a small town located in the midst of the Grand Staircase – Escalante National Monument and the Dixie National Forest, with Bryce Canyon National Park 45 miles to the west and Capitol Reef National Park 65 miles to the northeast.  We

Checking the weather on Saturday, September 11th, we realized that we had come to Monument Valley a little too early in the fall.  Daily highs of 90 degrees made life a little difficult, combined with the red sandstone dirt everywhere.  We struggled a bit this week, but the temperatures did moderate toward the end of

We arrived into the heat in Grants on Tuesday, September 7th. At an altitude of 6,460 feet, Grants was lower than we had been in over a month and further south. Temperatures were in the low 90’s, not the high 70’s and low 80’s like we were used to. Grants is in the high desert,

We arrived fairly frazzled at Angel Fire RV Resort at about 6:00 PM on Thursday, August 26th. What a long day it was. Walt had seen glowing recommendations for this park on Facebook, and we were not disappointed. It is a fairly new park on US 64 just to the west of the Angel Fire

We arrived in Ouray on Friday, August 13th.  Ouray Riverside RV Park, & Cabins, & Jeep Rental, & Café & Steakhouse, was quite an amalgamation of businesses.  The campground area was all gravel like a parking lot, but we did have an extra wide lot right on the Uncompahgre (pronounced just like it’s spelled) River. 

On Sunday, August 8th, we departed Yellowstone Grizzly RV Park.  We really enjoyed our 15 nights there.  The crowds were big in the park, in fact Yellowstone reported more than a million visitors in July, a new record.  But we had to go south thru Utah to our next major stop in Ouray, Colorado (pronounced

We did laundry and Walt cleaned our bikes on Sunday, August 1st. The Smoking Waters Mountain Man Rendezvous (www.westyellowstonenet.com/events/smoking_waters_mountain_man_rendezvous.php) was in West Yellowstone from August 1st thru 8th, so we went to visit. There were about 20-25 tents, “Mountain Men & Women” in character and all sorts of authentic western items.  We talked a length

On Friday, July 23rd, we left Rock Springs, WY, and the Escapade Rally to drive north to Yellowstone.  The drive through western Wyoming consisted of bare rock hills interspersed with green valleys where rivers and creeks flowed. As we continued on US 30 west, the valleys began to be irrigated bringing out even more shades