Howard Johnson Express Inn St. George

... roughly 3 to 4 mile route that would take me around the main bits of the park and also stretched my sore muscles. Before that I tried to find the pioneers names on the pioneers names trail which is a half mile loop past a cliff face where the passing pioneers added their names in axle grease. Or so the guide books tell us – I must have been looking at the wrong cliff cos I could not find any names.

Anyhoo back to ...

After running away from the Tramway to hide my shame and snow-whetted **** I got the car set and got on the way. The initial estimate of 8 hours driving was improved by an hour when I reset the sat nav to not avoid motorways and off I set along 29 Palms Highway – which looked even more desolate in the daylight than it had done the previous night on the way back from JT.

My first challenge was to get fuel. I always struggle in the US with fuel ...

Nov. 13
Soooooo, apparently Cedar city isn't big enough to sell Clinique face products....DO YOU FREAKIN' BELIEVE THAT???? All that way, and I can't get the one thing on the top of my list. Huhhhh! Fine. But, I did get a great little haircut for $13 plus a tip, and Tommy got some lovin...I had to show them where to put the oil in...it was a little scarey...but I supervised well. I also couldn't find any footwear...I need some cheap runners...my feet ...

Who's idea was it to start a climbing road trip through the rockies in the middle of Fall????
Oh, yes... it was ours.... We managed to get to st. George UT, home of the Red Hills. We got here monday at noon, and climbed some on Prophesy wall (usually used for multi-pitching, but we used the first pitch as a sports climb route ...

... them some kudos for rolling out of bed early and attempting this (very un-American), but for crying out loud, a bit of respect for *your* national park. Please. Before I finish the rock scramble half mile, I pass at least 30 people on their way up. The early start was paying immediate dividends. Below Walters Wiggles, it became a highway. Unbelieveable. I cannot fathom what it must be like up top with this many people. Kind ...

Shortly after we got back on the road this morning we received a call from Fred and Joan, friends whom we have been trying to connect with all winter. It turns out we have been in the same park for the last two nights! We planned to meet in St. George and because they were ahead of us they started checking for parks only to find that most are already full! In the end, the ...

... 3 Emerald pools route - 5.5 km - nice, like in the Hermon. Nice talk with a German woman about Amos Oz & Meir Shalev. The weeping rock & the Riverside canyon: nice 2 walks, 4.5 km. Saw squirrels & a deer. We saw the movie in the museum - nice. Springdale, a photo shop: he was in Israel, like the guy we talk to in the breakfast meal.

... set his eyes on the valley, he made his grand declaration 'this is the place'. Thereafter Mormons from all over the world began to flock to the area. coming by boat and by train and wagon or on foot, they converged on Utah and settled its rich and bizarre landscape. Nowadays Utah is a promised land rather than the promised land, and the Mormons are outnumbered by the catholics, and the Greek orthodox church is strong here, and there is a large Latino population and ...

Well, we did it! We have finally left for Costa Rica! Today we left from Sandy, Utah and made it all the way to St. George, Utah. We are so excited- a few times we said to ourselves, "I can't believe we are really doing it, we're really moving to Costa Rica!" Unbelievable. It was a little sad saying goodbye to family, not knowing when we will see them again. (We hope that it will be when you come ...

... lost in figuring out how to set the trap. When people say it's self-explanatory, it's hard to go back and ask them how it works. At 4:20am we were awoken by the trap being sprung....RIP Stuart Little. We barely knew you. At 5:30am, we saw mouse number two! January 27 At 7:30am, after a hearty breakfast of scrambled eggs and flapjacks, we departed on the Bright Angel trail for the South Rim. It is a ten mile trail that follows the Colorado River and then ascends via ...