Bryce Canyon and central Utah

Greetings, family and friends, from Fremont Indian State Park in central Utah.  Today is Thursday, June 6, 2024.  

This week we passed the one-year anniversary of our move into Emma Jean to live full time.  It truly has been a Great Adventure.  We've crossed the country, spent time in environments I had no idea existed, and seen things I couldn't have imagined when we lived in "traditional" housing.

The adventure has been good for my tiny cat brain, as each new location brings new sights, sounds and smells to keep me engaged and active.  I've even come to tolerate travel time in the truck, accepting it as the tradeoff for being in new and interesting places. 

The humans have loved the journey, as they've ticked off "bucket list" items, visited family and learned many, many new things along the way.  We're 15,000 miles into this journey, going strong, and have exciting plans for the summer and fall....

We leave our camp in central Utah this morning for a push toward Reno, driving nearly every day.  I find it really hard to write this blog in a moving truck, especially because I don't have opposable thumbs to hold the laptop, so am posting earlier than usual.

My post last weekend referenced Mark and Jan visiting Bryce Canyon National Park, and I promised to send photos from Bryce this week....

Their first visit to the park was Thursday, and they hiked through the sheer cliffs and tunnels of "Wall Street"....

....through Navajo Trail and Queen's Trail....

.....and back up through Queen's Garden.  The hike was more than three miles, with a drop of 580 feet from the rim down to the canyon floor, then a climb of 580 feet back to the rim.  Not for me, thank you.  I was happily at home napping.

Friday they regained their "sanity," stayed at the top of the rim, hiked the rim trail, and enjoyed the magnificence from above....

As with other visits, the humans say pictures do not do the scenery justice.  The "hoodoos" and sheer cliffs were awe-inspiring, Mark said.

Since it seems to have become a "thing," as the human kids say, here's another opportunity to "Find Jan" in the photo below....

We've spent the past four days here at Sam Stowe Campground in Fremont Indian State Park....

The humans took a couple of hikes and explored "petroglyphs" and "pictographs" left by the indigenous peoples centuries ago....

The only negative is that we've got a squirrel living in the bushes next to our home for the week, and he thinks he can run back and forth through our campsite to the creek.  Pretty rude, I think....

We leave this morning for a few drive days across Utah and Nevada to get home.  We are really looking forward to seeing the people that Mark and Jan love, and that I tolerate.

I will be back to you next weekend, June 14 or 15.