CHANGE OF PLANS

Most years by now, we have always been committed to a contract and been parked for the season someplace, somewhere.  This year is different for us since we longer signed anymore contracts with the Corps of Engineer.  Meaning we are free as a bird to do what we want, when we want.

We do have a commitment coming up, but not until the 1st of June when we will have to be at Grand Junction CO where we will volunteer for four months at the Colorado River State Park/James M. Robb Park.  But until then, we have been taking our sweet ole’ time heading in that direction.

We have spent the last month now at Mohave Lake and Lake Mead area near Las Vegas NV.  Our first plan of action was to hang out here at L.V. Bay campground until the 6th of May; where you are allowed 30 days on a site.  Then head on towards San Rafael Swell near Green River UT and near Goblin State Park on BLM Land. 

After talking to several campers that were heading North and making a pit stop to Zion National Park, we looked at the map and realized that was on our route heading towards CO and looked appealing to us.  Brian contacted the park and soon learned that it was difficult to get in due to high volume of guest.  However, they did make the comment that right after Easter and a week before Memorial Day they tend to go into a lull state, as long as we showed up in early week.  We would be guaranteed no spot if we wait until closer to the weekend-for they are always filled up.

As much as Brian and I love to hike and go exploring, Zion has what we are looking for with many ranges of hiking trails from easy, to moderate, to difficult.  Every day we can take a different hike, and never see the same area-so we are very excited about this new plan of action. 

We probably will hang out there for about 10-14 days or whenever we have had our fill of hiking.  Then we will move on to San Rafael Swell until it’s time for our appearance in Grand Junction.

We will get no TV reception, which is totally cool with us, and we may or may not get Cell phone reception.  Again, it sounds like a very active and busy place, so we can defiantly live without these luxuries.

We are going to take off early morning of our Anniversary (Monday, April 25th), go into Wally World that will do an oil change on our Motor Home, go to Sam’s Town for our Anniversary dinner/lunch.  Head out  for a one night stay at Virgin River Canyon; which is actually located back in AZ, but still on our path to UT; off I-15.  We should be in Zion early enough on Tuesday, April 26th to get a parking spot.

So, with that said,  we may literally be off grid for a spell.   I assure you that we will have fun and will post many new exciting things, once we are back on line again.  Until then….