Lots of Rocks and Canyons!

It has been a busy three days---at least for the humans!  I held down the fort at the camper while they spent lots of time at three different National Parks, 1 state park, and a pet rescue center.  Now I have tons of pictures to sort out and lots to tell you about.

Their first stop was North rim of The Grand Canyon  on Saturday.  There are no words to describe how impressive it was. They walked out on a couple short trails to get some good pictures and listened to one of the ranger talks.



North Rim of the Grand Canyon



After they got back to Kanab from that jaunt they stopped by Best Friends Animal Sanctuary, a no-kill pet rescue center here in Kanab.  They expected a small building housing just a few pets---boy they were the wrong.  What they found was a state of the art facility housing not only cats and dogs, but also birds, pigs and horses.  R&N were able to go on a hour and a half tour and were very impressed.  They have 500 paid staff members and lots of volunteers.  When they take on the care of an animal, they make a lifetime commitment to the pet, no matter what its disability or problem.  The ultimate goal is to find it a forever home, if that isn't an option, the pet lives at the facility for its lifetime.





Sunday they took a longer drive to Bryce Canyon National Park.  Again, a beautiful place and well worth the drive.  The park has shuttle buses so it was easy to get around and see all the different outlooks.  Bryce has lots of hoodoos, spires of rock that have been formed by erosion over millions of years.  Some of the hoodoos are at least 500-600 ft. tall!



Sand Dunes



On the way home they stopped to see the Coral Pink Sand Dune State Park.  Wow----what a great big litter box!  It looked similar to the sand dunes in Michigan, except they were pink.  People can drive four wheelers and dune buggies on them, but not passenger cars.  It isn't busy like the Michigan dunes.  One can just get on them off the road and there are no rangers or anyone checking flags etc.



Today's trip was to Zion National Park.  This park was totally different in that instead of viewing the park from the rim of the canyon, you drove down into the canyon and looked at the beautiful formations by looking up at them.  I'm sure glad I didn't go along---they had to take a steep road with lots of switchbacks to get to the canyon floor.  I probably would have gotten carsick.  Then they had to go through a mile long tunnel.  Once they got to the welcome center, they had to take shuttle buses to see the rest of the park.



Zion National Park



Busy three days!  Tomorrow we head towards California.



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Zion National Park