After sleeping in as long as we could, we eased into the day and finished setting up our campsite, which would be home for the next two nights. With no rush to be anywhere, we enjoyed a relaxing brunch of fresh grilled potatoes and chicken before heading out to explore. Once brunch was finished, we… Read More Around Bryce Canyon
There’s something about the start of a road trip that always feels the same for us — late nights, early mornings, and the excitement of finally getting underway. Like usual, we didn’t get to bed until around midnight. After just a few hours of sleep, we were back up, grabbing a light breakfast, packing the… Read More Travel Day for the Grand Canyon Tour
This morning at exactly 7:00 a.m., I booked our final campground—Arches! Our two-week camping trip in May is officially set. We’ve spent a lot of time figuring out the best loop so we don’t need to backtrack, and we finally landed on a route we’re excited about. We’ll start in Bryce Canyon, then head to… Read More Camping tour booked
We woke at 6:30 am and enjoyed our final breakfast in the park. We packed up and hit the road by 9:00. When we hit the Salt Lake City area, we searched out In and Out and enjoyed two double-doubles, fries, and strawberry lemonade. We finally pulled up to the house at around 1:30 a.m.,… Read More Day 7: heading home
Today, we headed through the tunnel back to the park’s East side, but not without a long traffic line joining us. Once on the other side, we pulled over to explore a spot we hadn’t had a chance to visit before. As we started to hike around, we found beautiful rock formations created over the… Read More Day 6: Exploring East Zion
After a good night’s sleep and the sound of rain, we had breakfast and discussed plans for the day. Since it would rain all day, we rode the trails to the Temple of Sinawava again. It was fun to ride in the rain and enjoy being out in nature with a lot fewer people around.… Read More Day 5: bike ride in the rain
On our way back to camp, we stopped to revisit and explore a spot we had done years before. We hiked much further back into the canyon this time and had the perfect light for photos. We wanted to continue looking around but were losing the sun, so we headed back for dinner.
We were up and moving by 9:30 a.m., enjoyed breakfast with tea and coffee, and then headed off to today’s adventure: hiking to Observation Point. While at Phil’s, we discovered a few other hikes that would get us to one of our favorite Zion spots. We drove around to the backside and followed a trail… Read More Day 4: Observation Point (part 1)
After sleeping in and having breakfast, we headed out of the park to visit family in Washington, Utah. Sharon and Phil were thrilled to have us for the night, and shortly after we arrived, we were off to explore their town. We stopped by a local Botanical Garden, hiked Snow Canyon, and checked out Tuacahn… Read More Day 2 & 3: Kolob Canyon
After eleven and a half hours of sleep, we are up and moving today. It cooled down overnight and was pretty windy, we both kept thinking we were going to lose the canopy, but we woke up to everything in place. Let’s do this! After breakfast, we headed out to ride to the end of… Read More Day 1: First full day
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