| After a beautiful ride from Canyonlands National Park, despite a little rain and a lot of wind, we arrived in Bryce Canyon just in time for sunset. Mike had seen pictures in the other national parks we'd visited, but they do nothing to prepare you for what it's really like here. Simply Amazing! |
| Between being covered in sap and Mike's sciatica (or tennis elbow or pink eye or bug bite or which ever ailment it was that manifested whenever we had to choose between camping or staying in a hotel), this was definitely going to be another hotel night. As we were checking in, another biker came in and asked about the weather. "Supposed to be a snow storm tonight." No. Is that possible? For Pete's Sake, it's June! Well, you better believe that was justification enough for Mike for all the hotels we'd slept in so far and all the hotels we certainly would be staying in from here on out. You just never know when it could up and snow on you, right honey? |
| It's funny; I can pinpoint the exact moment that we ceased to be a "camping" couple and officially became a "pansy" "indoor" "hotel" couple. It was right about three hours after I took the picture below, when Mike finally woke up and looked outside. "Aw, we're snowed in. Can't ride today." That was it. That was effectively the end of Mike's camping career. But not mine, I tell you! You'd better believe that I'll be a camping fool on solo trips! (Mike's pretty sure that "camping" and "fool" are synonymous anyways, so I figured I'd just run with it.) |
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| Our original plan had been to head north out of Zion National Park and travel up into Idaho, then back down through Oregon, Nevada and the Gold Rush Country of California. It turned out, though, that this storm was actually pretty serious and that we were just picking up wisps of the very southern tip of the storm system. It's not that we don't like adventure, of course, but we were already a little tight on time due to the weather we'd been skirting on the whole rest of the trip. Being rushed and riding in icy snowy conditions is not the best choice to make, especially since we were on vacation and didn't have to stick to no stinkin' itinerary. So, plans changed. We took an extra day to explore around Bryce, and after the snow melted a bit we made the leisurely trip over to Zion. |
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