Life's about experiences. These are mine.
DAY 20 – Jackson to Canyon Village, Yellowstone (116 miles driven, 5.64 miles walked) There were only two things that I thought I knew about about Yellowstone park. Firstly the geyser (prouounced guyzer or geezer?) Old Faithful and secondly that it is a massive volcano that’s overdue a blow*. I’m was hoping to experience the …
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DAY 19 – Jackson (0 miles driven, 6.79 miles walked) We’re staying in another cabin here in Jackson which is bijou if I’m being polite. However, it does have one downside and that is a light right outside of the cabin shining in making it difficult for me to sleep at night. I couldn’t find …
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DAY 18 – Vernal to Jackson (286 miles driven, 3.70 miles walked) It was another long drive today – five hours from Vernal, UT to Jackson, WY. We’d been told that the first and last segments of the drive were the most attractive. The first hour or so was following a winding road through tree …
DAY 17 – Moab to Vernal (217 miles driven, 2.49 miles walked) Breakfast has been included with a lot of the hotels we have stayed at on this trip which is userful when you are about to spend a full day in a park. As you can imagine the quality is variable running from a …
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DAY 16 – Moab (0 miles driven, 8.00 miles walked) Learning from our one hour wait in the queue yesterday afternoon we set off early in order to make our 9am timeslot. Of course today the queue was only five minutes or so and we got through half an hour early! Yesterday apparently lots of …
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DAY 15 – Monument Valley to Moab (150 miles driven, 5.49 miles walked) It had rained overnight and so sunrise over the mittens was a bit of a damp squib which was a shame but it is such a great view. Personally I felt that once you’d seen the mittens the rest of the park didn’t …
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DAY 14 – Page to Monument Valley (126 miles driven, 5.68 miles walked*) One of the wonders that is close to Page and a reason for stopping here are the ‘slot’ canyons and we had booked in for a tour round one first thing this morning. There are a number of these slot canyons around …
DAY 13 – Grand Canyon North Rim to Page (125 miles driven, 4.33 miles walked) We left our cabin at the Grand Canyon and travelled back through the beautiful and smouldering Kaibab forest. I have no idea how they control the fires and prevent them decimating the forest but I guess they know what they …
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DAY 12 – Bryce to Grand Canyon North Rim (156 miles driven, 4.73 miles walked) One of the comments that we have made while in Bryce is how much the landscape reminds us of the Thunder Mountain Railroad ride in Magic Kingdom. As we were on our way out of Bryce towards the Grand Canyon …
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DAY 11 – Bryce Canyon (0 miles driven, 7.89 miles walked) We left our replacement hotel early and caught the shuttle bus from the stop right outside. Like Zion the shuttles run regularly and from outside the gates taking tourists in to the heart of the park. The driver had clearly had his early morning …
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