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I got the feeling of dread knowing I had to wake up the next day, put on a tie and go to work...... I enjoyed the beautiful, yet rushed drive from Bryce Canyon and out via Cedar City. I went to visit my old Pirate4x4 friend Lance Clifford and his wife Renee at their house in Hurricane for a...

Bryce is awesome. I will let the pictures tell the story. The Amphitheater is the main event and spectacular https://youtu.be/S8f8zkoQgUk

Man, I want to go so bad. I was SO close last week. Too hot.......

This road popped me out on Highway 89 in Utah just east of Kanab Utah. I decided to stop short of Kanab and try to find backroads to Bryce Canyon. I turned up Johnson Canyon Road and it was just what the doctor ordered The first cool thing I saw was this abandoned ranch that I later found out...

I decided I want to see Bryce Canyon National Park up in Utah that afternoon. The GPS gave me a route but my Arizona guidebook had a better idea. Just outside Jenny Lake there is the Old Western Road through Orderville Canyon that goes straight north and was off-road so I took it...

A quick turn to the south to walk through the Grand Canyon Lodge and glance at the rim was enough crowds for me so I snapped a couple pics and hit the road north. Tatonka

Sunrise alone on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon can go down as a major bucket-list item. If you ever get a chance to witness and feel this, do it...... I got an early start because I had gotten up so early to see the sunrise. The road out was outstanding. I was in a hurry the night...

I grabbed a permit for Point Sublime and hit the trail looking for the sunset. It seemed to take forever to get to the campsite but I made it right as the run was setting. Surreal. I was completely alone. I had not seen a soul since leaving the asphalt. Day Two. Done.

My 22# Boston Terrier took a Cottonmouth to the eye a couple of days ago. I am glad they are tougher than humans.....

I flew past Flagstaff and headed up through the Navajo Nation. This drive is unreal. Truly unreal. The Navajo Bridge was built in the 1930's and was the only crossing over the Colorado River for 600 miles completely opening up this area to travelers. Amazingly beautiful The second...

After lunch I swung around the north side of Sedona and ran Greasy Spoon trail. It was a great trail with a pretty difficult long climb toward the end. Views as always were fantastic. Swinging back into Sedona, the views got even better The only misstep I took to this point was using...

The next morning I wandered around about an hour and listened to the wind in the Aspens. It is my favorite sound in nature. https://youtu.be/UMfJyt-LjmM I drove up to Snow Bowl to make a plan. It was nice and cool but a bit smokey from the wildfires north of town. I really wanted to...

Superb. Excellent pics.

After I left El Morro I looked at the map and figured I needed to climb into some serious altitude to sleep soundly Saturday night. A major heat wave was rolling into the Southwest and I needed to get up on a mountain. I fueled up with some more Blake's before leaving New Mexico. This time...

Haha....my company lets me drive anything I want as long as the (base) MSRP is under $45,000 I used to try to work the mileage angle and drive cars that got good MPG but then I realized I was being dumb and bought something I wanted........

After I knocked out the only thing on my agenda, I turned west and officially crossed the Continental Divide El Morro National Monument is just west. I had no idea what was there but it was close and on my way to Arizona so I stopped in to check it out.... .....and I am very glad I did...

The road and the scenery change from dusty roady to nice two tracks through the pine forests as I neared the continental divide at the NW side of the park. Big Tubes looked like the best of all the lava caves from my literature and it was also the most remote. I drove on a really great...

My friend Ron had told me about a great National Monument in New Mexico called El Malpais. I literally had no other plans except to start there and work my way west. I had to be in Vegas at noon on Tuesday. I checked in at El Malpas which is near Grants New Mexico about 24 hours after leaving...

A couple of months ago my company announced we were going to have a 3-day meeting in Las Vegas in June. Immediately my mind went to all of the awesome that is between here and Vegas and decided I would load up my company car and wander my way to Vegas over 4 days...... Although I am a huge...

Awesome! My first trip to Big Bend was a Lajitas to Santa Elena trip in 1988. I need to do a 30th anniversary trip to repeat that stretch.