So… After five nights of camping and evaluating our driving threshold, we decided to bail on camping at Zion. Good thing too seeing as it was blazing hot there! Ended back at Vegas for air conditioning and getting cleaned up before meeting friends in San Diego.
While we were at Bryce Canyon, we had planned to visit some of the amazing slot canyons nearby but we didn’t realize that it was monsoon season. I always thought it was hot and sunny here in the summer but monsoon season means unpredictable flash flooding. The park ranger we spoke to recommended not to go so we heeded his advice. Will definitely add it to our next road trip plans.
But we did manage to venture down to a small slot canyon in Zion. Kids were awesome climbing up and down a very rocky and slippery slope as Dude adventurously moved forward. Meanwhile I was whispering under my breath, “So NOT safe. So NOT safe.”
We hope that we can instil a spirit of adventure in our children, to take risks and to follow wherever God leads even when it means veering from the norm and taking a road less travelled.
What legacy do you want to leave your children?
Amazing photos and story, Flo! Love following your epic trip, and frankly, impressed that you didn’t bail after your first camping night with the ‘fairies of death’! ;). But now, not only are you not newbies, but I’d say in a category of your own. Enjoy your upcoming week at the man made parks of Shamu and princesses!
Thanks, Anna! Thankful we only met the fairies of death in Diamond Lake otherwise we may have bailed a lot earlier. But being in mosquito free campsites is incomparable! Now we’re experiencing a whole different kind of tiredness. LOL!