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From: George.Anthony <ganthony@gmail.net>
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Subject: Re: Utah Day 1
Date: Mon, 5 May 2025 00:17:11 -0000 (UTC)
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sticks <wolverine01@charter.net> wrote:
> We stayed the first part of the Utah trip in the town of Cannonville, UT 
> at an RJourney park.  I believe these RJourney parks used to be KOA 
> places, but I'm not entirely sure.  It's right on Utah 12 and is only a 
> 10 minute drive or so to Bryce Canyon.  I thought the place was just 
> fine.  Reasonably priced, with clean bathrooms and showers, laundry, and 
> firewood available.
> 
> The one bad thing about this place was the terrible internet service 
> they had.  

It’s actually wi-fi service (I’m sure you know) and you’ll be hard pressed
to find an RV park with decent wi-fi. Even the ones with a fee aren’t
anything to write home about. 

I've had similar things happen in hotels with an older laptop 
> I have, but it just would not connect my laptop.  I contacted their 
> support and they were unable to assign my MAC address for some reason or 
> another they couldn't explain.  So I could not use the laptop, wife 
> could not get her Android to hook up, and I had to log back in with a 
> new Iphone ever 5 minutes or so.  The hook up to the network was just 
> fine, but the damn provider they had with the ridiculous sign on to get 
> to the internet was horrible.  Trying to plan routes and do all the 
> things we take for granted these days become very apparent when you 
> can't get on the internet.  Oh well. Here's a few pics of the little 
> campground.
> 
> <https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/xtcvz3827c15vxte0v8u8/RJourney1.JPG?rlkey=ugss0vmj0q2y31sg1syndq0e4&dl=0>
> 
> <https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/5sp8pg4m5v87a8r8opwqs/RJourney2.JPG?rlkey=ogxtj7t53e0ifi6uoy6yr9yi2&dl=0>
> 
> <https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ozdrz0rgdjzny7r5g8weh/RJourney3.JPG?rlkey=7adnez04npqaxdjcanmk7unmb&dl=0>
> 
> Night time temps were a little warmer than our previous nights.  It was 
> around 38-40F or lows, and quickly warmed up in the morning.  I watched 
> the sun rise over the hill each morning and really enjoyed that.   We 
> did have to run the heater every night we were on the trip, used the gas 
> for hot water and taking showers, and cooked on the weber grill.  I was 
> amazed that I managed the whole trip, even with having to have the heat 
> on, without having to refill the tank and am just above 1/4 on the LP 
> tank level.  Seemed very efficient to me for 15 nights of heat.
> 
> After three days of driving and acclimating to the elevation, we decided 
> the first day to take a nice easy hike.  We were both ready to move and 
> do some walking.  We headed to Bryce Canyon just up the road and did the 
> Queens Garden/Navajo Loop hike.  This is probably the most popular of 
> all the hikes in Bryce because it only has about 600 feet of climb and 
> is just shy of 3.5 miles in length.  Unfortunately, that means you will 
> most likely have plenty of company.  As we were so early in the season, 
> it wasn't overcrowded, but the 80F temps did bring out many people.
> The trail shows a little of everything Bryce is famous for...
> 
> <https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/vr2prwsjxugnfndbrzrr4/NavajoLoop.JPG?rlkey=b4qjic6xpt8vf8xwuf41fan1c&dl=0>
> 
> And on this trail everyone talks about the small section of switchbacks
> 
> <https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/xykz8l4gb5ye3kqlp5ey9/Switchback.JPG?rlkey=mwljukwqq0lfpztut8kh6ccmy&dl=0>
> 
> Which were really not much to worry about.  Still, the knee swelled up a 
> bit and we decided we'd do a day of hiking, and then a day of 
> off-roading from then on and hope I could keep up.  Fortunately, my wife 
> coddled me for the rest of the hiking.
> 
> Here's the track of the loop we did.
> 
> <https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/6dflotom9t8a7t7q53ngm/NavajoTrack.jpg?rlkey=6301en5z0qozaqewo83uhbj16&dl=0>
> 
> It was a great start at seeing the area again and the weather was perfect!
> 
> 

 Nicereport and photos. As has been said here, it’s hard to not find beauty
in Utah.