Utah and more

We stayed at Big Mountain RV park while in Nephi, Utah.  A very small town and the campsite had no internet or cell service even with our booster.  Because of this we decided to leave a day early and head to St. George.  But while we were in the area we felt we needed to see something, so we took a drive around the Nebo Loop, which was beautiful. We passed cattle along the road.

We stopped at 8000 feet for these pics.

The trees are starting to change to the fall colors and we drove up to a place called the Devil's Kitchen. Pics below.

St. George:

View from our campsite:

We were going to go to the Silver Reef Museum as they were advertising online about having Cowboy Days where they have people in period dress to talk about the cowboy days and Wells Fargo and they feature two shoot outs.  However their neighbors had placed complaints about the shoot outs so the event was placed on hold.  So, we drove to Zion National Park.  The pictures do not do justice to the majesty of this canyon.  You take a free shuttle that stops at nine points throughout the park. You can get off at any point and hike and then take another shuttle to the next point. We stopped and took the Grotto Trail, a half mile hike down to the lodge where we enjoyed a late lunch.  We thought of our friend Tarissa as we saw the rock climbers clinging to the sides of the canyons.

On the way to Zion:

In Zion:

The Patriarchs

The Throne

Saturday we went to a Swiss Festival in Santa Clara.  We were hoping to find out something about Swiss culture, however, it was more like a street festival. One cool thing was that they had a dog agility demonstration.  So we watched that, walked around, listened to a little music and supported the local high school cheerleaders by purchasing some baked goods.

After St. George we traveled to Page, Arizona and on to Flagstaff to spend a week with our daughter, Danielle.  We had a terrific time as always and took a drive to Payson, Arizona where we went to a lavender farm.

We also enjoyed Flagstaff's annual Oktoberfest.

On to Las Vegas for the Renaissance Fair with Janette and Reid.  Here is a pic of Janette and I freezing our tushies off on Friday night.

Now back to San Diego for a few weeks.  Doctors appointments and visits with friends.