This morning we hooked up the car and discovered a small radiator leak. That's a little scary - we just had the radiator problem fixed! Randy tightened a connection and it seemed to stop.
So we drove on, stopping at the Utah Visitor Center. We were there before it opened, so we went next door to have breakfast at Cracker Barrel. Then back to the Center to get some maps.
Utah seems to be a lot greener than Nevada. We decided we did not want to drive the RV through Zion National Park - there are a lot of switch-backs and a couple of tunnels that require stopping traffic in order to get an RV through - so we took a southern route that dipped south into Arizona and came back into Utah through Kanab. Kanab is surrounded by pretty red mountains, and they lay claim to being the site of several films.
Our RV park was just east of Zion National Park. When we tried to hook-up, we discovered our plug wouldn't work. This has happened once before when we visited Kill Devil Hill. As then, Randy was able to fix the plug. What couldn't be fixed was the fact that our RV was badly out of level - the front was way lower than the back. When we put the jacks down enough to correct the situation, the front step was way too high. Me and the dogs were likely to break a leg getting out! I built up a little step of rocks and asked the folks in the office if we could get a real step. The manager promised to have one delivered to us, but it never happened, so we just used the rock steps, very carefully.
This RV park has no wifi and no phone service, so we were out of touch for awhile. But what it does have is Zion National Park, just a couple of miles down the road! We drove the jeep through the park - it was simply amazing. Mountain goats were grazing near the road, and they are so used to people that the traffic didn't bother them at all.
And the park was so beautiful - can't wait till tomorrow when we can explore!
There was one short tunnel, followed by another one that was a mile long. Very dark! A few windows were cut into the rock wall occasionally to let in a little light. This is the tunnel that RVs have to drive through in the middle of the road, to be sure they can clear the ceiling. So every time an RV approached the tunnel, from either side, traffic going the other direction had to be stopped.
There are buses that run through the park - that may be useful to get around.
On the other side of the park is a little town with a small grocery store - that may come in handy in the future. But for now we headed back to the RV to rest up for tomorrows hike!
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