bryce canyon

Hi we are still here in panquitch for a couple more days. Today we went to Bryce canyon. I think I liked it more than the grand canyon. Not as immense but a lot more interesting formations. Before we got to the canyon we saw the most amazing thing and I was very worried we were going to have to find a way to bring it home with us. There on the side of the road with a for sale sign was a 69 dodge dart swinger 34o. The car of our youth!! Kevin needed tissues to wipe the drool. He took the number down and called as soon as we made it to camp alas the guy actually was selling it for what its worth and the credit card doesn't have 15000 on it. Oh well. we did make it to the canyon and the pics will show how amazing it was. Shawn I took 270 pics so I hope that you can manage to help me stitch them together. A single pic doesn't give the feeling of the place. Then we went to kodachrome basin after driving by it the first time by about 40 miles. Kev let me drive so of course I opted for a dirt road to see chimney rock. it was cool. I even got to drive back to camp. Then we did the laundry and talked to T&B. We are off to see Zion tomorrow.

grand canyon

We made it to the grand canyon. that crack in the ground is immense!I took 165 pics today a record! mind you not all of them were at the canyon as there was some cool stuff on the way to panquitch. The time zone things were all screwy there. the bus was on pacific time the news letter said it should be on mountain time I still have NY time. but it made it hard to figure out how much we could actually do before we had to leave. We took the FREE shuttle all the way to hermits rest which took about 3 hours making kevin a bit anxious about getting to camp before dark. We stopped at a few of the places along the way. Deb la I kept thinking of you biking all the rim trail. That really would be the best way to see it all in about a day the top of the canyon is relatively flat and has good trails. It is a rather long walk but would be a great bike ride. there was a raven entertaining people at hermits rest and we saw a deer just hanging out a bus stop that was probably a 10 point buck. he seemed very unconcerned that it was hunting season. There is no way however I would want to go into the canyon on mule. that thing is steep!!!!The rafting down the colorado river still sounds like fun to me though. On our way to panquitch we went through a dust storm kinda weird. The canyon lands all around are just amazing everywhere I look there is something beautiful. I was however again saddened by the squalor of some of the people. Living in small shacks or tiny homes many in just old camping trailers. it got into the 90s again today. I'mgoing to try uploading some of the pics now