We left Las Vegas at 8am this morning, knowing we had a lot of ground to cover today. Tim and Sam were still asleep when we left, so I sat near them to helicopter parent around any bends and fed them while on the road, which was a novel thing to be served cereal and milk at a set of traffic lights!
We were so tired from yesterday’s big day of driving, that we never read the information provided by the RV park and didn’t realise we had free wifi or a 24hour laundry, so I will have to get myself more organised and informed! We headed straight for Zion National Park, and at the visitors centre quickly realised any hikes were out of the question given the heat, our unpreparedness of footwear, and the time each suggested trail would take. We did do a lovely drive though, including through a long tunnel cut out in the rock wall. Some of the bends freaked me out slightly, given the sheer drop and the size of our vehicle hugging such bends, but I would rather Ross be behind the wheel in such circumstances than anyone else on earth!
To take my mind off it, I retrieved a book from my bag I had brought to read. I usually only get time to read novels in the Christmas holidays, so was quite excited to think I could achieve such a feat mid-year! Until I started to read… A book called ‘The Shack’ was recommended to me ages ago, so I thought would be a good choice while travelling for long hours through beautiful countryside scenery. HOWever, its premise is around a family’s CAMPing trip in the US SUMMER holidays where the youngest child is ABDUCTED…. As if this worrywart needs any NEW fears… And the setting was Oregon which is only a state over from here!!
ANYway..speaking of states, we went from California to Nevada yesterday, then briefly through Arizona today to Utah. Tim has expressed a real interest in Geography, so once I got over the shock of Tim asking to do something academic on holidays, I decided we must capitalise on this! Geography 101 lessons start in the morning 😉
From Zion we moved on to Bryce Canyon which was actually breathtakingly beautiful. We watched a 22 minute movie at the Visitors Centre which was a good history summary, then drove to a lookout. Ross had planned to visit a couple more lookouts but decided against it given his plan to get as close as possible to Salt Lake City which we plan to explore tomorrow. And we lost an hour once we entered Utah. We found a little town with Subway for dinner at 8pm, and the RV park next door offered us bargain accommodation. I have since discovered it is bargain for a reason though, and with no wifi, we will just connect with the world when next we can…

Postscript: just arrived in Salt Lake City. Am sitting in a park while Jarrod and Ross are in the visitors centre, and have discovered the accommodation next door has free wifi that reaches here! How naughty, but here are the posts I couldn’t do earlier!! 🙂