USA Day 8 - Zion National Park

Total States Visited: 3
Where Are We Sleeping Tonight: Pitch N Ride Campsite, Kanab, Utah

After a restless sleep on what may have been an under inflated air mattress, we packed up camp and set off nice and early. Clare drove around Echo Canyon before we visited Cathedral Gorge. The place is amazing and it looks like the scene from Star Wars where R2D2 is attacked by Jawas. Just think, they went all the way to Tunisia to film when they could have filmed right here!

Next we drove through the Dixie National Forest (although it doesn't look like a typical forest) and then crossed the border into Utah.

We visited a Walmart Superstore where Clare finally got to buy her jumbo 1kg tub of cheese balls and a pillow sized bag of potato chips. Oh dear...

Speaking of deer, there are lots of deer signs in test neck of the woods. Back home we have Qantas signs, here they have John Deere signs :)

We drove through our first ghost town today which was amazing to experience. The scariest thing is that we couldn't guarantee that there wasn't someone living there, hiding in the shadows waiting to spring on a broken down motorist or teenage camp councillors...

 
 

We drove through some amazing country today, including Zion National Park where we drove through a tunnel built in the 1930s. There was a fake civil war fort gift shop which had fantastic ice-cream and some cheap items I really would have loved to have bought if we weren't already running out of space in the car!

 

We drove on to Kanab where we set up our tent. It was so much quicker now that we know what we are doing with it. The best thing about camping here is the free wifi - amazing what we can do nowadays!