Category: Vacations

We woke up at 6 with only a little sleep and found the entire tent soaked with dew and condensation. There\’s nothing quite like waking up early and folding up a soaking wet tent. But we made it work and

After all of the passport hysteria settled down and we made it to James Island County Park (campsite map) we set up our tent and fed the dogs and dug all of the stuff out of the car that we needed to cook

We met Sandra\’s Dad around noon in Jacksonville and traded stuff. Layla and Blair were with him and made sure the dogs got some love.

So back on the road, we had about 4 hours to go and since we will

We pulled into Bryce Canyon National Park and lucky for us there was a spot to place your camera for a photo with the sign so we did not have to deal with the same fiasco that we had at Zion.

We were

After a few hours of driving we were starting to get hungry and there was absolutely nothing but desert for as far as we could see. Then just as we were starting to worry, we discovered this quiet little

After our trip through the Grand Escalante Stair Case we finally made it to Bryce Country Cabins for the night. It was a relief to spot the cabins along the side of the road.

Although they look

Just south of the dam for Lake Powell is the famous Horseshoe Bend. You may have seen this in photos but it is quite impressive in person.

We sat and watched the boats in the river for a while and

Our next stop was Lake Powell, a which is a man made lake that is over 500 feet deep at it\’s deepest. The lake was made by damming up the Colorado River and it created an awesome recreation area for everyone

This was our camp site at Zion. We could have had several tents in our site, it was huge! But remember that it was 115 during the day on our trip, and at night it was 95 degrees, so it was pretty tough

From our National Park trip last July, we left off at our arrival to Zion National Park. (Click on “Vacations” at the top of the page if you need to catch up)

By far this was the most beautiful of the

Next stop Zion National Park, probably our favorite National Park on the trip so far.

We arrived at Zion right as the park opened, in fact we were the first people to enter the park until we stopped

Although we planned our trip in advance we were unable to book a camp site at the North Rim Campground, so instead we stayed just outside of the park at the Kaibab Camper Village. There are a few tent

The best part about the North Rim of the Grand Canyon has to be the Lodge which is built right on the rim of the canyon. There are many trails for hiking from the North Rim but the drive from outside of