Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico
August 3-12
- Departed hotel around 9 and hit a Wal-Mart for supplies ($102). Drove from Nellis to Hollow Flats (somewhere between Cedar Breaks and Long Valley Jct). On the way, we drove through Zion National Park.
Very cool place - incredible sandstone formations and lots of wildlife - and it is easy to want to stay. Unfortunately, there were no fires allowed and campgrounds at the park were pretty full (of screaming children), and this was not a place we really wanted to be. So after touring the park for a while, we continued driving.
- Stopping at a house advertising firewood for sale, we met a retired gentleman who had quite a collection of animals - chickens, peacocks, billygoats...large ones. Large, smelly billgoats. (we know they smelled because he insisted we pet them.)
He was quite a character, and full of information, which of course helped us - not that we needed to know how the irrigation laws in southern Utah worked, but he did give us some good camping location tips. He mentioned Dixie National Forest, accessible by taking US-89 to UT-14. We stopped at a visitor center and they directed us to a fairly secluded area (except for ATVs). It was a nice site - cooler here; elevation was about 6,000 feet. - High temperature today was 107 degrees. Here in the forest it ended up around 75 degrees...nice to be out of the desert!
- Beer of the Day: Moab Brewery Scorpion Pale, Wasatch Apricot Hefeweissen, Wasatch Evolution Amber Ale
- Dinner: Turkey brats and corn
- Mileage: 230
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