Our journey for the summer has begun! Our first day we traveled into Utah and spent our first night in a BLM Visitor Center parking lot! This was a first for us, as we'd never stayed in a parking lot before. We couldn't have asked for a nicer spot :-) We were up early to continue north towards Bryce Canyon National Park. We are camped at the Red Canyon campground, which is part of the Dixie National Forest in Utah. All set up, we went to fill out the payment stub....uh oh... this is a Double Site??? So we moved and we moved again to find a single site. But on the way through one of the circle drives, a Sabertooth Tiger Rock jumped out and attacked one of our trailer tires. With a loud howl, the trailer tire was injured. Chris had to unhook and rehitch the trailer to get the back tire away from that vicious rock. I'm not sure why the forest service finds it necessary to place such sharp objects on a tight turn. A local tire shop fixed us up quickly, though. The same day we saw a motor home battle the rocks on that turn but luckily his rock was more like a sleeping tortoise and he was able to escape.
All settled in we headed for Bryce Canyon National Park. It is beautiful. But I prefer looking at canyons from below and not from above adjacent to a ginormous cliff!
Red Canyon has some nice trails that take you right up to the Hoodoos without feeling like you are falling off the edge!
Here are Chris and Caleb standing next to one of the small Hoodoos on the trail. There is a nicely paved bike trail next to the campground that parallels scenic byway Highway 12 that we have been riding along. We are off to view more of Bryce Canyon today and are planning to stay put until after Memorial Day.
Glad to hear that you're on the road again. I do so love those red rocks (but not the one that jumped out and hit your tire) LOL.
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