Sunshine Daydream And The Long Strange Trip

Hi everyone. I'm starting this thread to use as our travel journal as we are getting ready for our maiden voyage.

This Friday we will be leaving for Snow Canyon State Park down in our little corner of the Mojave Desert near St. George Utah. The weather forecast looks to be gorgeous with highs in the upper 70's and lows in the 40's. We will be there for 4 days.

We have stayed at this park before in our old teardrop. It is a great place for late fall and early spring camping and is a gorgeous place to visit with lots of great hiking and a very nice bike trail.

I will be sure to post lots of pictures when we return!

 

Have a great time on your inaugural adventure!! Look forward to hearing about it!

 

Sunshine daydream, walkin in the tall trees
Going where the wind blows
Blooming like a red rose
Breathing more freely...



Looking forward to reading about your adventures...keep on truckin!

Michael

 

Snow Canyon State Park is a great place for the first trip. Some day I will return to the wonderful National and State Parks in Utah.

 

CICO in Chicago on July 4 weekend??



I am not going. I did not get tickets.

and I've now ruined your trip thread....

-Al

 

Have a great (long and strange trip Joe!

 

I'm looking forward to the pictures and more news about your adventures.

 

Al, I am painfully aware of the Chicago concert. I also have no tickets lol.

 

Snow Canyon State Park

3 Nights
622 Miles round trip.

Here are some pictures of our first trip in the new tear.

Our Site:







Some hiking on the first day:







We met fellow Camp-Inn owners Rod and Kathy from Colorado:

 

Continued...




Relaxing back at camp:



Hiking the Petrified Dunes trail:

 

great pics!! Have fun!

 

Looks like a wonderful maiden voyage and the pictures are great.

 

Whoa, really Kewl..

Nice trip... wonderful places down there..

 

Gotta love it when the daydream turns real...glorious weather...beautiful pictures...thanks for posting them.

Michael

 

Professor Valley - Colorado River

3 Nights
494 miles round trip

Just got back from camping for 3 nights along the Colorado River. This was a trip with the Utah Whitewater Club and we were supposed to run the river but it was too cold and rainy for me so we didn't even rig our boat up. Besides I have run this stretch a number of times so I was just as happy to sit and camp and read and enjoy the views.








Here are a couple of our friends who didn't let the cold stop them:


Of course the day we left was gorgeous and warm!

 

Sevier River/Castle Rock Campground

3 Nights
392 Miles Round Trip

Spend the last three days camping in Castle Rock Campground in Fremont Indian State Park and boating on the Sevier River through Marysvale Canyon with the Utah Whitewater Club. Great weekend!

 

Uinta Mountains / Lost Creek Campground

7 Nights
128 Miles Round Trip

Just spend a whole week at a nice little campground close to home doing a lot of relaxing and very little else. Did a bit of fly fishing and a lot of reading. Very nice to get out of the heat of the valley. Quite cold and rainy for the first half of the trip. Last half was more sunny with temps in the high 60's and low 70's.

There was a young bull moose in the campground several evenings and one night while doing the dishes, he came right through our camp site!

 

You have moose!?!?! I never see moose until several years...in Canada...in Alberta...an acre away...in a mustard field. You get him in camp!

It's a rotten jip.

But good for you. Looks like tons of fun.

Sue

 

Yep, we have a lot of moose here. Especially up in the Uintas.