58 Days–4,995 Miles

While in Marysvale we were fortunate to meet some new friends to enjoy riding the trails and sharing tasty meals. 

The Paiute trail is one not to be missed, with miles and miles of beautiful scenery to explore.  This summer we rode about 650 miles in our RZR- and most of those miles were right from our campground in Marysvale, Utah!

We left on Friday morning for our final road trip back to our home in Cottonwood, Arizona.  Driving along Hwy 89 we passed through red rocks and over the Colorado river, skirting the edges of monsoon storms near Flagstaff before descending into the Verde Valley where our truck’s thermometer read 104 degrees!

We drove 4,995 miles on our truck this year, mostly towing our Heartland Road Warrior toyhauler loaded with our RZR and Caleb’s Honda 250EX quad.  We were fortunate to spend 57 nights and 58 days on the road exploring.  Diesel was about $3.70 per gallon and the price went down as the summer progressed. 

We are settled back into our home in time for the quickly approaching school year.  Our summer trip was unforgettable, full of joy and laughter.  We spent two weeks enjoying the lake up in Canada, fishing and kneeboarding, and three weeks riding the Paiute trails with our side by side and quad.  We bundled up  in the ponderosa pines of Grand Canyon National Park’s North Rim and were misted by the spray of geysers at Yellowstone National Park on father’s day.  We look forward to future journeys along the trail!