We got away about 10am this morning. I had a small job to do and put it in the mail. Bryce Canyon is not as far away as Zion was yesterday. We stopped at the same station and filled up with gas and headed on down US89 to sr 12 to the park.

This is a very interesting but different park than Zion. Zion was all above you as you were driving in the valleys. At Bryce Canyon you are on top looking down into the vast canyons and at all of the stone sculptures that are there. They call them Hoodoo's as they look like individual people or sculptures all done by the wind, rain and the freezing and thawing of the weather.

In the photos you can see the Natural Bridge, caused by water erosion as well as wind and other elements. The colors are so vivid, it is hard to believe their richness, even in the dark and rainy weather we were having. One can only imagine the colors on a bright sunny day.

We saw this Doe laying in the woods chewing her cud. We were at least 300 yds away and Evelyn zoomed in and got this close up.


On our way back from Bryce Canyon we took another route that took us north and then west back to US89. It was a small road that eventually became sr22, but it was not wide enough to be stripped and it went out into the country for miles without even seeing another vehicle.

When we left the park, we were still quite high and this little road took us down and down into a valley and through the mountains and finally out to the small town of Antimony, UT. Really just a wide spot in the road, but the most civilization we had seen in about 35 miles other than lots of ranch land and cattle and some crops growing in the lower elevations. We did see one huge fancy ranch entrance that lead out towards the mountains to the east, but we could not see any indication of buildings or anything, so it must have been quite a distance back off of the paved road.

It is back on the road tomorrow toward Canyonville, OR.