From 22nd October to 4th November 2015. Four days in Las Vegas and then touring around.
We managed to get some sleep despite the room shaking whenever a plane took off. We took the 7am shuttle bus to the airport and were checked in and through security with loads of time to spare for the 9:43am Delta flight to Atlanta. We left a bit late and so had just enough time…
We were up and out of the hotel promptly to head the five minutes down the road for our 9am helicopter flight. The short flight with Papillon was definitely worth the money and gave us a much better sense of the scale of the canyon. Back on the road and our next brief stop was…
We were up just after sunrise (the hotel alarm clock was 12 hours out!). However the view from the room was still pretty impressive. We had breakfast in the restaurant and had a quick look around the Navajo museum before hitting the road. For a lot of the journey along highway 160 we were beside…
We checked out of the Cactus Hill motel and grabbed a late breakfast at the Coffee and Candy Cafe in Torrey. Our next stop was in Hanksville to fill up with petrol (slightly more expensive than last time at $3.19 a gallon) and to get a sandwich for lunch. We stopped at Hog Wash picnic…
We had the few bits of food we bought yesterday for breakfast in our room. We then headed down to the Capitol Reef visitor centre. They advised against the Notom-Bullfrog road in an ordinary car so we stuck to the paved scenic drive and short stretch of unpaved road at the end along Capitol Gorge.…
We were up fairly late, checked out online and went to have a late breakfast in the Ruby’s Inn restaurant. We picked up a couple of sandwiches for lunch from the shop. It was cold and raining so we had a backup plan of visiting a museum in Boulder. However when we got to Calf…
We checked out and headed straight through Zion. After passing through the mile long mount Carmel tunnel we stopped at a couple of lookouts to admire the eastern side of Zion park. Aside from a quick pit stop our next stop was at red rock canyon on the approach to Bryce canyon national park. We…
The Zion park shuttle buses finished running during the week last week. So we drove into the park, paid the $30 for a week’s pass and parked up near the grotto. We walked up the west rim trail towards angel’s landing. At scouts lookout we both decided that the roped climb and precipitous ridge to…
We had breakfast in Greenbergs again before checking out and hitting the road out of Vegas. We stopped off at the Walmart supercentre in Mesquite to get some bits for lunch and ended up sitting in the car in a nearby car park to eat it. Next stop was at the visitor centre and wildlife…
We went to Della’s Kitchen at the Delano for breakfast with Kate. Pretty expensive, but very good. Ady and I both had the pork benedict. We got the monorail back up to the Excaliber and walked to the Thomas and Mack for the last day of the PBR. JB didn’t ride due to a sprained…