If you have never been there, go, the wait is worth it for their posole alone. I also realized I haven't put up a post on Moonflower Musing in about two month and only looking back through my photos did I remember why, been kind of busy...
those would be orca whales in British Columbia.
How did I get up there? Meandering, like I always do and to tell you the tale, I have to start way back at our Spring Break when we went wandering on the west side of Lake Powell and hugging the Utah/Arizona border, did a little research for a project I'm working on at Pipe Springs National Monument...
Apparently, she acts all nice and sweet until she gets close enough to the wooden fence to whack it hard with her horns and watch the tourists "have a cow"!...
From Pipe Springs we headed to Springdale and explored the backside of Zion National Park, just for fun...
where, in a wash, we saw desert sheep up close and personal, thanks to loud and obnoxious tourist above us...
Leaving Zion, we kept to the "back of things," leaving the pavement to drive a "seventy five" mile shortcut to Lake Powell and Hite's Crossing, the only bridge either direction for hundreds of miles, the ferry at Bull Frog broken down. Down through Water Pocket Fold we went...
weirdly the few cars that pasted us all from Washington State. When the tiny dirt road started to look more like wagons tracks, I got concerned, glad when we finally came to pavement again, Daughter #2 drove for a bit, in her permit year with literally, nothing to hit except for some sagebrush...
In three days, we drove in a 900 mile circle and never hit a interstate, getting about 30 minutes away when we were Springdale. So what do you do after that, you come home and drop the husband off then take the kids, who are still on Springbreak to see Grandma, nine hours the other direction in Northern Colorado. Then you drive back home and picked up our new puppy...
Cause that is what you do when you have a crazy spring and summer...is get a puppy! Next up, Piper and The Bike Race.
