Vacation - Part 1

I'm a little behind in getting something posted about our trip which was a few weeks ago. When we returned we had my Dad's visit and then all the birthday fun not too mention our laptop went kaput. Well . . . I am using the new laptop now and it's beautiful! Here are a few pictures from our first day which was mostly spent driving.

The purpose of our trip was to visit Zion National Park in southern Utah but we were staying in Mesquite, NV a small town just over the border from Arizona (the northwest corner of Arizona). There is this part of our state that is completely sectioned off by the Grand Canyon, Utah, and Nevada and we drove through it everyday getting back and forth to Zion.

We took the long way getting to Mesquite so we could avoid Saturday traffic at Hoover Dam which would have been the most logical route. Our drive took us north through Flagstaff and then to Page where we stopped for lunch.This is some of the beautiful cliffs in Northern Arizona.Keeping the Pickle contained for lunch was tough along the lake! We found a "picnic area" near Glen Canyon Dam but it was deserted because the water level is so low. There were signs that referenced a "beach" even . . . so sad.
I captured Pickle's one nap that day . . . which was conveniently right when we came upon the visitor center for Escalante National Monument. This was a great visitor center that was all about dinosaurs!!
Um . . . one of the interesting things we saw on the road in Utah.