We made it to Wyoming

   After a few more stops in Utah and Colorado we finally crossed over into Wyoming.  It’s a cold and rainy night , but the forecast is for better weather the rest of the week.

Here’s a few pictures (mostly rocks!) of things we saw from Canyonlands to here.

Wooden shoe rock.

The Colorado River.

Newspaper Rock.

Arches National Park

Dinosaur Hill, Fruita, Colorado.

Imprint of dino bone removed from rock.  This area is where most of the dino fossils came from that are in the Smithsonian and Chicago museums.

Canyon Pintado,  waving hands pictograph made  by Fremont Indians who lived in the area.This petroglyph of a lizard was huge maybe life size in 1200 AD? Camping spot on the Green River.

  Good-bye Utah, for now.

The Goosenecks State Park, Utah

Our next stop was between The Valley of the Gods and Monument Valley.  We didn’t have any idea what The Goosenecks were so we decided to find out.  It was quite and awesome sight and a wonderful parking spot.

This was our parking spot right on the rim not more than 50 ft from the edge looking straight down to the San Juan River.  Isn’t it amazing  that a little river can do all that!  

Monument Valley in the distance

Another beautiful sunset on another beautiful spot.

Lake Powell and the beach

It’s kinda funny we have spent all winter dodging winter weather (right Jerri) and we have experienced more winter and cold temps in the last month than all winter!  So longing for some warm sunshine and being able to sit outside without getting blowed away we headed south for awhile and landed at Lone Beach on Lake Powell.  That’s us the big one on the left.

It was the perfect spot and perfect weather.

It sure was nice to just sit and enjoy the beach for a little while and the temps were perfect.

We have been boondocking (no hook-ups) for about 21/2 weeks in some of the most beautiful places.  We kinda like having no hook-ups for now. It gets you more perfect spots.

This was a view of the Colorado River as we crossed over Navajo Bridge in Arizona.

Wait till you see our next parking spot!

Remoteness means no internet

Well after leaving Bryce Canyon, after staying almost a month , we moved on down to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.  The cold and the wind followed us but it was sunny so it was fine.

We like to take the backroads through the park and on this road the Aspen trees were just leafing out.

This is Angel View Window and you could see the Colorado River thru the opening. It was a viewpoint you could walk out to to get a better view.

We actually crossed off one of the to do’s on our Bucket List and that was we rode the mules down into the canyon.  Now just 999 things left! 

Gitty-up Goliath!!!

             Yes that is where we went!

Wait is that Jake (our nephew), oh no it’s our guide, sure looks like Jake!

Finally some sunshine

Well hopefully our bad weather is over and spring is finally arriving in Utah.  Beautiful sun and warmer temps make it very pleasant.

We have been to see some of the fantastic scenery everyday. This is the views in Capitol Reef National Park.

Jerry wanted to buy this beautiful new motorhome, but it was way overpriced!Coral Pink Sand Dunes state park.

More Bryce Canyon.

This old gas pump says it all!  Think we will rest a few days.

Winter scenes in the middle of May

We have spent all winter avoiding this kind of weather, but there is something to be said about visiting it at 10,000 ft. and coming back down to 6500 ft. and warm weather. We were going to Cedars Break National Monument, but the road was closed because of several feet of snow still there. This was approximately 40 miles from out campground.

This was the road to Cedar Break (don’t know the lady she was just in the way) it may be June before it opens.

The most amazing sight was this huge mountain of lava flow from an eruption from a volcano hundreds of years ago. The flow was probably 2-3 miles long.

Mama Elk and her 2 kids. A good day.

Bryce Canyon National Park

 

We arrived near Bryce Canyon on Wed. May 11 for a week.  We are about 30 miles from the entrance and there certainly a lot to see.  The rock formations are really strange looking and it is amazing what water can do.

The rocks are called Hoodoos and are usually tall and skinny.

This is called the Queen’s Garden.  It was a 2 mile hike to it.

This was the next days hike Called Navajo Loop at Sunset point, also about 2 miles vertically for most of the hike and then through a slot canyon and yes that is people at the very bottom just before the shadow. Going down!

Some of the sights along the way.

 

We came down so we had to go back up, slowly, but we made it. So far this has been our favorite place.

St George, Utah

We are now in Utah and the scenery is so different from our winter hangouts.

Checkerboard Rock

One of the windows inside the tunnel that is 1 mile long through solid rock. 

This is the first stop on our tour of the parks in Utah.