Before I get to the lows, lets look at the highs!! We have seen some AMAZING country!! I never would have guessed that Utah had so much to offer. It was so beautiful, I wish we could have stayed many more days there!
This first picture is Bridal Veil Falls. This is outside Salt Lake City...so amazing, double waterfalls and you can climb up to the bottom of the lower falls. Worth stopping at!
From there, we ventured the rest of the way down through Utah to Zion National Park. Please, if you EVER drive to the Grand Canyon, go to Zion!! We literally drove through and stopped at two different places and went for a hike. There are trails all over, but you will find some challenging and some not. They didn't have good maps so we just went for it! Let's just say that I was VERY challenged and Zion almost broke me, but I made it and everyone else did too!
Here is a photo from our first hike in Zion....to get to this waterfall, we literally had to climb over and around boulders, over the stream, along slick and steep rocks...it was crazy, but SOOO worth it!! It was a hard one! But the waterfall was beautiful. It was even sprinkling on us a bit which was super nice!
On our second hike, we just pulled to the side of the road and went for a look. We saw a river bed and just followed it along, for probably about a mile. It went from open to very narrow. Quite an adventure. Here is one pic...
Yesterday we left Utah and headed in to Arizona. Totally different landscape...and more green. We got quite a bit of rain yesterday. Our first stop in Arizona was the east end of the Grand Canyon. This was my must see. I have always wanted to see the Horseshoe Bend. I've seen the pictures and wanted to take one for myself!! Here is what I got with my phone (since it takes panoramic shots!)
Our rental RV is all the lows. I can see why people buy their own...seriously! The rental company called this rig the Pinata. We can completely see why. It seems to be falling apart more and more. Lets just say I've been praying A LOT!!! I would covet your prayers also! Day before yesterday we were driving down the road and all of a sudden the largest pull out started to PULL OUT while we were on the road. We literally had to rig up something to keep it in. The biggest problem....we couldn't get the generator started so we could pull it back in! But we made it to our destination just fine. Turns out, someone (who will remain nameless) pulled it out just a bit at one of our stops to get shoes out and forgot to put it back in....Our table in here is now being propped up because it won't stay up on its own, we keep shorting out circuits...for no reason also. On top of all that, we are headed into some seriously hot weather (108 degrees) in Vegas and we won't have AC in the main compartment because of the generator not starting. YUCK!! So we will be rotating who's in the cab!
No matter what, we are having a good time and everyone seems to be enjoying themselves. Time for me to go as we are headed out to the south rim of the Grand Canyon today. Hopefully I'll have decent internet so I can do another update!
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