Saturday, July 19, 2008

WHAT A RIDE!!! continued

When we left Geln Canyon Dam we rode past Page Arazona and down a beautiful cliff side that eventually took us here, to the Navajo Bridges. there are 2 of them and they go over a green
river below. We walked out to the middle of the bridge and the river was green as far as you could see in either direction. WEIRD!!!!
We left Navajo Bridges and headed for the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.. Remember that I said it was 103 in St George that same day.... well as we got closer to the Grand Canyon area we saw these on the way ........
We stopped at the Jacobs Lake are and had lunch and met some people that were traveling from Connecticut, the same area that Tom went to high school in. In fact, Tom graduate with the man's sister. We talked to them for about 45 minutes as we had lunch and started off to the rim of the Grand Canyon...... We were within 18 miles from the rim and the rest of those clouds rolled in. We stopped and put on our rain gear and headed out again but to our surprise this storm came in hard. It dropped to 45 degrees and started hailing and raining hard!!!! It hurts as it is coming down fast and hard and you are traveling fast on a motorcycle. We went as far as we coul until our glasses steamed up and we could hardly see because of the storm and we had to turn back, yet again. Back at Jabocs Lake we got a head of the storm and started back to St. George again. WHAT A RIDE!!! It was great and BEAUTIFUL!!!! The Lord sure has made a wonderful planet for us to live on and enjoy!!
We left to come home on Monday and we took a detour through Cedar City to Cedar Breaks, another beautiful ride!!
On the way up you are going through the Dixie National Forest And then you get to Cedar Breaks it looks like a mini Bryce Canyon.....After that we went down through Panguitch to visit with our very good friends Bruce and Joleen Hatch. While we waited for Joleen to get off work Tom and Bruce had fun with the men that sat outside the store.

I never see Tom Smile quite as big or have as much fun as he does with his good friend Burce!!!!

We went to dinner at the Pines a little place not far from Bryce Canyon. It was good.. and then we were off again just enjoying the ride back.

What a great time we had. Thanks Burce and Joleen for alwas making time for us when we come through. Thanks Linda and Jim for the use of your place. It is wonderful....

1 comment:

{leah} said...

The pictures are great! Even though I already know about it, it was fun to read, and see all the pictures to go with it.

love you!!!

Oh, I LOVE the new background! It looks great!