May 9, 2012

Hi all our friends and family,

Susan and I are still at the Zion National Park. We are staying at a wonderful RV park near the south entrance to the park.  It is hard to describe how different the landscape and terrain is compared to our lush northwest forests. Here the absolute stark beauty of the flat top buttes in their beautiful red ochre colors are.  It is truly a majestic park area that everyone needs to see at least once in their lifetime.  Sweet SuzziB and I took a 50 mile ride up to the Kalob Resevoir.  The elevation of the reservoir is at 9000 feet above sea level.  That is 4500 feet higher than the Summit of Stevens Pass and 2000 feet higher than the top of 7th Heaven at the Pass.  We rode up the twisty mountain road in awe at the sight of the canyons and rock mountains.  The cactus were in bloom, small black eyed Susans, many purple and white fields of flowers, and a lot of bright yellow and neon red blooms in the higher elevation meadows. We are off to Page, Arizona on Saturday morning.  Page is close to Lake Powell. We will be staying at the Wahweap  RV park there.  I am including in todays post some shots from this area and some from the RV park.

More Later,

PS: I have to wait for a faster connection in order to upload some of the pictures.  The connection keeps timing out