Saturday, August 17, 2013

Driving on to Zion!



After a few days at Arches we spent another full day driving west, this time headed to Zion National Park. For this we kept on Interstate highways for time efficiency and easier roads, but we still saw some nice scenery. Along the way we also saw a group of about 20 Smart Cars traveling east, different yet similar to group of Model A's that we saw earlier in the trip. Looking it up later I'm pretty sure that they were heading to the Smart Car National Convention in Denver. At a gas station along the way we thought it is funny that they were selling used license plates from a variety of states that looked like you could just buy them and attach them to your car.  We also saw the thermometer hit 104 F, making it our hottest day so far, later we heard that it had been 112 at some places in the park. Our last stop along the way was to stock up on groceries at a nice supermarket in Cedar City. Watchman Campground at Zion is just inside the southwest entrance and adjacent to the visitors center making for easy access to the shuttle busses. The landscape at Zion is just spectacular. At Arches we felt like we were camping on Mars, but here it was like we were camping in some famous 19th century American landscape painting that is too perfect to be real. We also took in several ranger naturalist programs at a small amphitheater just steps from our campsite, and a great one about hummingbirds one evening at Zion Lodge. 




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