Super 8 Motel Scipio

We were went out for our Camfel tour on Monday. We have 2 1/2 days to make it to Illinoise for our first show. Here goes road tripping across the country!<br><br>We have loved it. The first night we stayed in Manti, Utah. Expedia found a shady motel way too far off the route. They were closed when we arrived, but on the office door was ...

I went with my dad and stepmom, niece and nephew to the Little Sahara State Recreation area in Utah. It's a big place for ATV's and you just see huge trucks, four wheelers, and trailers everything. That kind of stuff isn't really my thing but I thought it would be ...

... balls. I think they are sand stone boulders tucked into the edge of the toe of the hill which appears to be lava-based. I passed what looked like a well drilling rig and thought about what this country would look like and be like with water. Coming into a couple of small towns, there are lovely, dark green fields of alfalfa that are flood irrigated, so this land can be really productive if it gets water. That's so true of much of the west! I can see ...

We put a lot of miles on yesterday as we continued our westward journey. Utah was suprisingly beautiful. We did not anticipate the splendor of the mountains and vast array of colors. It was pretty desolate so we drove further than planned. We ended up stopping at the Butch Cassidy Campground. It was not as "foo foo" as our last accomodations, but it was clean and the people ...

I think when Utah was put on the map-- it's only purpose was to annoy Red Columbus. I spoke to the campers last night around 9:30. They are at the Butch Cassidy campground in Salina, Utah. Red said the campground is "X-Rated." Red's words to describe Utah were ...

A slightly better nights sleep we woke to already very hot weather. Not much to do here albeit the scenery is wonderful. We spent some time around the pool - MJ now reading "Roughing It" by Mark Twain about his journeys in the early West. The initial "blog" about his stage coach trip along the Californian Trail is excellent - they managed 300 miles in 55 hours pretty much non-stop. The drivers seemed to work incredible hours and driving horses ...

... we spotted signs to Hwy6/50 - "The Loneliest Road in America". It basically runs straight through the middle of the Great Basin in scrub desert towards Reno and then on through Nevada and gets very little traffic. MJ wants to drive it one day - there are no services (or anything) for 80 miles and that's just to the stateline. We took at McD's lunch in Delta where it was obvious from the waitress that they don't get many Brits round here and then ...

Headed north up I-15 towards St George - passed thru the Las Vegas desert valley and then a scenic climb upwards to meet St George. We didn't stop but pressed on towards Cedar City - this piece of the interstate is very beautiful with scrub land on the left and the pine-clad hills/mountains on the right. As we approached Cedar City the sky darkened and it began to rain with the associated nose-dive in temperature. We parked outside the soda ...

Matt, reservo vuelos para los dos desde San Fran a Salt Lake y desde alli a New York... en el aeropuerto nos encontramos con la mama, y nos fuiemos a comprar una pizza para la cena... la mujer muy amable, muy madre... nos tenia todo preparado en la casa! Realmente aprecio su recibimiento! Salt Lake City es la capital mormona del mundo, las reglas de la ciudad estan ...

... so many cool things to see, especially for the aspiring geography nerd (Which I didn't really know I was yet)! We walked up an entire river down at the bottom of a gorge, literally IN the river, and saw some awesome rock formations as we walked around the deserts! One of my most memorable trips, and Cecil, Jolene and Manpreet were there too so that was great.