“Wilderness is not a luxury, but a necessity of the human spirit.”
– Edward Abbey
The hotel we stayed at was the nicest yet. We had a ground floor walk out slider to this view. I worked for about an hour in the with this view. Not too shabby if I say so myself.
This morning’s driving stats and where we are at:
So our first stop was horseshoe bend. We parked in the lot and walked about 1.5 miles to see this:
Next off to Bryce Canyon. The drive there was amazing the landscape changes so much it is really breath taking.
We made it to Utah! The first time we stopped at the state line sign.
Travis has become quite the photographer and getting used to the facebook checkins. This was him the whole drive to Bryce Canyon.
Next Stop Bryce Canyon! Seriously each wonder of the world is better than the next.
So many people stopped us to pet and ask about Riley; Most of them from Europe. We found out that Flat-Coated Retrievers are very common over there. Spoke to one couple who had 4 of them. Riley was just soaking it all in. We spoke to another couple who used to have a Golden named Riley. So they got their Riley fix by loving on him.
As we were walking out of Bryce Canyon we stopped at the general store for water. Ended up getting a slice of Pizza and an ice cream sandwich. It was starting to get chilly so move to a bench in the sun. Ahh perfect. Walked back to the truck we started talking about selfies and selfie sticks (which I refuse to buy). Then Travis told me about the selfie song. When we got back to the truck and were driving out of the park he played it for me. So funny! {Video to come when I have better internet}
We started heading to Zion Nation Park, only like an hour away. Stayed at a motel about 15 minutes away.
Not our best motel but it was convenient.
Across the street was a restaurant where they advertise their Ho’made pies. The Thunderbird restaurant did not let me down I had a strawberry Rhubarb pie.
It was amazing! So the story is that back in the 30’s when this restaurant was first started they ran out of wood for the word HOME, so they shortened it to HO. And it stuck..
Start of day 3 stats.
Today’s travels took us out of Tennessee, into Arkansas and then Oklahoma.
First mission was to find an outdoor eating establishment that Riley could on the patio under the table. Score! At the Acme Feed & Seed, food was good but a little to fru fru for me.
As promised I am blogging about our cross country trip to California. So much has happened since my last post I have a lot to catch you up on (and I will over this next week) but for now we are starting with the present.
The gate was busted open into George and heather’s pasture.
Not sure how or why one of the three main barn horses broke the gate latch and opened the gate between them.
Golden Spike Farm's Plog 
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