Blanding Bed and Breakfasts Reviews and Rates

Big Winds

This morning, after an ample breakfast from the van's larder, the three bikers took off together. Stefan, for the moment, was following the same route as we were and seemed happy to have some company on what was at times, I imagine, a very lonely journey. We stayed behind, tidying the trailer, taking some pictures of the weathered red rock cliffs …

Slickhorn Canyon

This was the hike from hell. I think this is the first time that our guidebook has led us astray. I think I was borderline dehydrated by the end of it- we both had headaches but I really thought I was going to throw up. I just kept thinking, 'If I'm close to being dehydrated and I throw up, that would really be bad'. Even when we got back to …

Hovenweep

Started the day under cloudy skies in Cortez, Co and took a series of back roads and Indian roads to Hovenweep National Monument and then Natural Bridges National Park and closed the night in Blanding, UT.

A Soft Bed for the Night

Today we broke camp, grabbed a quick breakfast at Smitty's Golden Spike Restaurant and hit the road to Canyonlands National Park again, this time visiting The Needles district. We had a lovely hike, attempting to make it to the Chesley Park overlook to view the Needles up close, but Jane's acrophobia kicked in as we were ascending a steep section …

US 95 to Moab is not a 2 hour ride!

My retinas have been burned to a crisp by all this amazing scenery. Seriously. I only see in black and white now that I have exposed them to 9 straight hours of this incredible Utah landscape. My meals are blander, Gilligan's Island not as funny. People will say to me, "Wasn't Tahiti beautiful?" Or "Wow, that Grand Canyon was something else." and I …

Blastoff!

OK, we finally got started! Two days late and a lot of stress later, we finally got going at about 2pm. The kids were so excited to get going, but papa had to finish some work and then we had to square away a few things, so we got a later start than we wanted. On the positive side, we hoped we could get as far as Canyon de Chelly in the 1st night. …

Virgin River Gorge, AZ to Blanding, UT

The next morning we noticed that if we follow the highway through southern Utah that it would bring us back into Northern Arizona where we would be able to get to the Grand Canyon North Rim. That would most likely be our last chance at seeing the Grand Canyon and that was definitely something we both wanted to see. We figured that since Utah …