We are sitting around a campfire at our site outside Zion National Park recapping our first 4 (11 for Rob) days of the trip. "Most amazing sight" is shockingly a total draw - the grand canyon was fantastic, no doubt (it was Brendans pick), but the plateau east of the Zion park tunnel was also like nothing I've ever imagined and I saw a big horn sheep, so that holds a real soft spot for me. For Rob, exiting the Zion tunnel after 6 loooong days driving across the plains and desert - the 2000 foot tall sheer red rock faces of the Zion canyon rising all around him runs a pretty close second to the grand canyon he said.
Awesome, awesome, awesome. In the original sense of the word.
We've been fitting in lots of fun and adventures too, hopefully not so many we burn ourselves out early. The twins are doing very well on out hikes so far. We got off the shuttle bus at a trail head with a gentleman with a walker a few days ago, and joked that we should at least try to keep pace with him. He beat us soundly. We've set some ground rules: no hikes after 11 am (the sand radiating the midday heat back from under your feet is sort of similar to feeling like you're in a convection oven, I would think), no hikes "with a number before the zero" (ie. longer than 1.0 miles), and everyone who makes it to the end without falling over the edge gets 2 Oreos (we added that one at the grand Canyon yesterday).
We move on to Bryce Canyon National Park for a night tomorrow, and then onto Goblin Valley State Park for a night of boondocking (camping on public land) somewhere in the San Rafael Swell. The next night we make it Moab, mountain biking capital of the world, where we should have WiFi again. Rob is fighting with the awning as we speak, I should go help him. If I eat one more toasted marshmallow ill probably burst anyways...
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