Bryce Canyon Unplugged

As we pull out of Bryce Canyon at sunrise, everyone asleep in the backseat, I believe that I could stay on the road another month without a blink of the eye. It's really crazy how much we've seen and done. When I fall asleep I remember at least 30 things I didn't add to this story.

Yep, they are teachers from Maine ;)

...Teddy dropping the SH#% bomb while playing Mario

...the guy that was carried out of the river walk by 7 others after breaking his foot while jumping off a cliff. A 2-3 mile hike back.

...polygamy beer and the promiscuous French teenagers.

...how filled these campgrounds are with Europeans. Americans are the minority around here it seems.

...finally got a small run in. 463/1000. The heat and altitude made me lazy.

We spent four nights in Bryce, much of it just regrouping, eating, swimming and playing Mario. No 3G and very weak wifi was rough on the kids at first but they got used to it quickly.

***I, Annie, did not get used to it thank you very much . We went into town and got service and I got 27 messages . ( I'm so loved ) I even allowed them to take another 20 mins at the grocery store so I could have service longer . Anyways it's all good . (:

Teddy found an apricot tree in the KOA AND a bing cherry tree (private property) the kid was in heaven!

The three snuck back under cover of darkness to sneak another handful of cherries. It was in a neighbors front yard and reminded me of grandma Sass' walnut tree. There were thousands of cherries!

The KOA here is beautiful, reading outside the camper left me feeling like I was as far from home as we really are.

Kevin and I drove in to Escalante to check it out and I found my most favorite thing in the whole world....a dirt suck upper that rescued the Durango from 3 weeks of dust, dirt and hair. Yay!!!

To close out our stay here we took a three hour ATV tour. Between Arizona, Utah and Colorado there are over 3000 miles of ATV trails maintained by the US Forest service. Many of them are old logging roads and they're also built as fire stops to control wild fires.

They are all open for public use and it's possible to ride from northern Colorado to Las Vegas on an ATV.

It rains approximately .5 inches per month here so the bandanas were necessary to keep dust out of our mouths. Teddy still has dust coming out of his tear ducts.

 

We needed an air compressor to be able to see each other at the end but it was completely worth it.

Definitely an option for the Zombie Apocolypse!