Today we spent the morning hanging out. Richard had to take a conference call, so we stayed close to wifi. The dogs liked having me around since they got to sit outside for a lot of the morning. It took them both a little while to stop standing and to lie down. Didn't bark at anyone, though. But if someone is walking a dog and I'm walking mine, Leinen will start into his panic squeal. The table shows a water pistol I have to squirt Leinen when he starts to make sounds.
After the call and a little lunch we went driving to Zion National Park. There are two roads through the canyon. One that goes straight in that we'll do tomorrow. You need to ride a free shuttle for access to that part of the park. The other road is a switchback road going up 5 thousand feet with remarkable views and into a tunnel that was built right before the time the Hoover Dam was built. It is about a mile long I think they said. When they built it they also put in several overlooks. Cars were much narrower back then, and they didn't have buses. Now it is one way with someone on each end letting the cars go through. It's pretty cool.
Here are the pictures.
I recommend anyone who will be traveling through 2 or more major National Parks this year to get the app called Just Ahead. You download narratives onto your idevice, or android. Then plug it in to the phone. It will work whether or not you have cell service. Whenever you pass something interesting it will start to narrate interesting facts and information. For example, in the above picture you can see a very wide rock on the left. It is a very flat rock used for rock climbing. It gave lots of geological information about the creation of Zion Canyon.
Here is a big arch. You just can't tell how big it is from the picture. Sadly, I didn't get a picture of the entrance to the tunnel.
I made this picture large for the blog so that you could possibly see the lines on this mountain making it look like a checkerboard. And that is what it is called. Checkerboard.
The tree on the left part of this photo is one I have found quite interesting here in this part of the country. It is an oak tree. I'm used to seeing giant oaks in the Eastern part of the U.S. Huge ones that are hundreds of years old. This oak tree may be that old, too, but it is maybe only 10 feet tall. The leaves are much smaller and clustered close together as you see in the pic below.
Just more of what I call awesome scenery and Richard calls just big rocks.
Here's a closer view of that flat side of the mountain used for rock climbing. Too bad it was in the shadow.
To give you a perspective the rock in the right center is about the size of a house. Like my trip to the Hoover Dam, the pictures just don't show you the size of everything. You need to go yourself!
As we are driving through Springdale, the local little Mormon town, a deer crossed the 2 lane road.
After the call and a little lunch we went driving to Zion National Park. There are two roads through the canyon. One that goes straight in that we'll do tomorrow. You need to ride a free shuttle for access to that part of the park. The other road is a switchback road going up 5 thousand feet with remarkable views and into a tunnel that was built right before the time the Hoover Dam was built. It is about a mile long I think they said. When they built it they also put in several overlooks. Cars were much narrower back then, and they didn't have buses. Now it is one way with someone on each end letting the cars go through. It's pretty cool.
Here are the pictures.
I recommend anyone who will be traveling through 2 or more major National Parks this year to get the app called Just Ahead. You download narratives onto your idevice, or android. Then plug it in to the phone. It will work whether or not you have cell service. Whenever you pass something interesting it will start to narrate interesting facts and information. For example, in the above picture you can see a very wide rock on the left. It is a very flat rock used for rock climbing. It gave lots of geological information about the creation of Zion Canyon. 
Here is a big arch. You just can't tell how big it is from the picture. Sadly, I didn't get a picture of the entrance to the tunnel.
I made this picture large for the blog so that you could possibly see the lines on this mountain making it look like a checkerboard. And that is what it is called. Checkerboard.
The tree on the left part of this photo is one I have found quite interesting here in this part of the country. It is an oak tree. I'm used to seeing giant oaks in the Eastern part of the U.S. Huge ones that are hundreds of years old. This oak tree may be that old, too, but it is maybe only 10 feet tall. The leaves are much smaller and clustered close together as you see in the pic below.
Just more of what I call awesome scenery and Richard calls just big rocks.
Here's a closer view of that flat side of the mountain used for rock climbing. Too bad it was in the shadow.
To give you a perspective the rock in the right center is about the size of a house. Like my trip to the Hoover Dam, the pictures just don't show you the size of everything. You need to go yourself!
As we are driving through Springdale, the local little Mormon town, a deer crossed the 2 lane road.
It was a beautiful day.
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