Kman and I joined up in Devore off the 15 on Wed. morning May 17th, 2006, and spent the night at Nevada Mugs' place in Vegas. We launched from there up into Utah and thru Zion. Having seen it before we kept moving and got to Bryce in short order. Bryce was amazing and we stopped several times to take pics and enjoy the canyon.

Just on the other side of the park, we spent the night in Escalante and headed out to Capitol Reef and Grand Staircase the next morning. The roads through here are incredible and the bright red landscape made me feel like I was on Mars. On to the Glen Canyon Nat. Rec. Area and across the Colorado River where the scenery flattened out and we rolled into Mexican Hat for the night.

The next day it was on to Monument Vally and the Navajo Reservation. Many films were shot here including John Ford's "Stagecoach" and "Back to the Future 3". I was very impressed with these rock formations standing like totum poles, but we kept moving east toward our next destination Canyon de Chelly (pronounced de Chey).

There were plenty of places to buy trinkits and we stopped often. The people were extremely interesting and the canyon had ancient drawings on the sides of it. Heading south from there and then west, we passed thru the Hopi Reservation and made it to Cameron for the night.

Day 5 was the South Rim in the morning and Sedona in the afternoon. Having never really seen the Grand Canyon this was a must for me. We stopped to look down inside a couple times before actually entering the park. Finally there it was, surreal in a way, and almost a bit of a let down even as magnificent as it was. We had seen so much that week, and it felt like the adventure was coming to an end.

So we spent the next night in Precott watching the weather reports from Calif. It seems there was a bit of rain headed our way, but we were prepared for it and the next morning we headed for home. Down the Yarnell grade and across the desert westward went Sparky and Kman, their thirst for adventure quenched for the time being. What will be next you ask . . . We shall see . . .