Navajo Trail

The Navajo trail in Bryce Canyon was closed all summer due to a rockslide, and was recently opened back up so we made the time to go on it. As you can see from this picture it was the best view of Bryce and we took the adjoining Peekaboo trail. That made our little trip 5 miles of very hard trail. At least I was in good enough shape that I made it up the steep paths this time!

We are just about all packed to go and will be in Seligman, AZ on October 1st. Our summer was awesome and better than our dreams. Now on to the next adventure! We love you, Vicki and Ed

Summer's last hurrah

This picture was taken at Cedar Canyon campground this week. We checked last week and this campground was going to be open for 2 more weeks. Well, after we were there for a day a camp host came by and told us that the campground would be closed the next day. So Tuesday, the next day, the maintenance guy came by to turn off the water and close the outhouse. They said we could stay there and rough it if we wanted to, so we chose to stay. That night 4 carloads of teenagers decided to park next to us and have a big campfire and do a lot of yelling and running around. To us, that was a sign to pack up and leave. So much for our last camping trip of the summer! Bye for now, Vicki and Ed

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I keep forgetting that the first blog I do actually ends up the last so go down to the first one and scroll back up please. OK, this is the next day and a different trail to an arch-bridge combination called Morning Glory Arch. This was a 4 mile round trip that was totally different. Most of it was along a creek that had poison ivy growing all along it. Of course we were wearing shorts and tank tops so we were walking through there very gingerly! We also had to cross the creek several times by small rock stepping stones. And of course it wasn't level, there was an incline of 330 feet through all this. Plus squeezing between rocks and climbing up using our hands as well as our feet. It was hard, but when you are done you can pat yourself on the back that you made it-of course then you have to go back!! Well, you guys, that's it for now. Take Care, Vicki & Ed

Here's what I'm talking about. Needless to say, it was an interesting trail. Also you can see why this one arch is called Bowtie.

Another visit to Moab

On our days off this week, we went to Moab, Utah to see the arches that we missed the first time around. We had a great time camping at the KOA there. Our KOA is nicer with grass and trees. This one has a desert setting, but it had a nice pool and we did get a shade tree!!! The first arches we saw were called Corona and Bowtie arch. The trail was 3 miles round trip and I felt like a mountain goat on some of it. It was primitive and it went over alot of rock slabs and up and down. These pictures are of one part that you had to hold on a cable and put your feet in toe holds. this other part actually had a ladder. It was worth it though. The next days trail will be part 2.

Back to Bullhead

Bullhead City was our destination this week to visit with Eds mom. When I was little we used to go to Bullhead with my Dad to see my Grandma and Grandpa. We called them Domie and Dompie and they had a mobile home there which they went to from L.A. to relax and fish. That was in the 1960's and there was only 1 casino and not much else. Now it is like a small Las Vegas and there are quite a few casinos and lots of full and part-time residences. There is even a super Walmart so you know they are big-time now. The traffic is horrible with only one main road through a very long city. Its built all along the river and is spreading into the mountains like a forest fire.

Ed's mom, Mary was doing great for being 91 yrs. old and we had a nice visit and did some shopping around. We bought a little refrigerator for our garage in our 5th wheel. It looks just like a big one but its only 4 cubic feet and weighs 80 lbs. Our garage is looking more like our house every day! Well, that's all for now.

Cedar Breaks

We finally went inside Cedar Breaks National Monument last week. After seeing Bryce it's so-so, but there was a trail (like all the Parks darn it!) to a 1600 year old bristle cone pine tree. And this is it! It looks lilke it's 1600 years old.