Today we headed to Capitol Reef National Park. First time visiting, and I got a National Parks passport stamp, which always makes me happy.
Turns out Mormons settlers made the valley there their home, and lived off the land, including having huge orchards. We visited the homestead, the blacksmith barn, the meat-smoking barn, and the grade school. Then we hiked up to Hickman Arch and also checked out the petroglyphs. Or maybe they were pictographs. I watched the orientation movie at the visitors' center, but I'll be damned if I can remember the difference.
Leaving there, we headed through Grand Escalante National Monument on our way to Bryce Canyon National Park. All those mountain passes didn't agree with Farley. His check-engine light came on, but that's nothing new. And we've had the same transmission torque clutch-something-or-other code several times and it usually works itself out with time on a flat road. Hopefully he'll get some tomorrow.
Tonight we're "boondocking," free camping on public land that we found on freecampsites.net.
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Entering the national park.
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| Just a couple of miles to Hickman Arch. |
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Marc admiring the arch.
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| One lonely desert flower in bloom. |
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| Valley view. |
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| Wild turkeys in the cherry orchard. |
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| Not an unusual view for a VW van driver. |
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Thanks, freecampsites.net!
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