July 22nd Drive to Cedar City, UT

  

Saturday, July 22nd, 2006
Day 27
Drive to Cedar City, UT

Today was another driving day, but it was quite nice. We drove from Ely, Nevada to Cedar City, Utah, roughly 200 miles in less than 4 hours. We are back into Mountain time, so it was later when we got here by an hour. The KOA we are staying at here is quite nice and rather expensive as far as camping goes, so we took the “cheaper” site. We still have all the amenities, we’re just in a smaller site with no grass and kind of in the back. Well, we are as far back as you can be. It doesn’t matter though, because how much time are we actually at the site? Not too much.

Tomorrow we are going to Bryce Canyon National Park. It looks beautiful from what I can tell and if the colors here, 78 miles from Bryce, are any indication, it should be breathtaking!

It rained here today for a little bit, but the kids still got to go in the pool for a little while. We found a grocery store and tried to get gas, but the gas station’s credit card machine was not working. So, after grocery shopping we discovered that by spending money at this store we can now save 15 cents per gallon of gas at the gas station we were trying to use. Cool! So tomorrow we will go back there and use our coupon! We can save up to $15.00 which will offset the high cost of this campground.

You may have noticed I have figured out the picture thing a little better. It is somewhat involved, but now I think I can get a photo on each page. On this page I am putting one of the view from where we had lunch. It was a turnoff on the road we were on in Nevada. It is called Cathedral Gorge State Park, Millers Point. Hope it comes out OK.

I almost forgot to mention that Rod was giving up hope of seeing any deer in Nevada. Today as we were getting close to Utah, before lunch, he finally saw two. Unfortunately both of them were road kill, but they were deer! The first one was a big antlered buck. The second was a doe. He saw them within a couple of miles of each other. Well, there are deer in Nevada, but apparently the heat keeps them bedded down during the day. No real shocker there.