We’ve been planning for a few weeks to take a week’s vacation, and our desire was to head to Bend, Oregon. However, the weather didn’t cooperate (cloudy and sprinkles) and the high country roads were still closed due to snow. So, we headed to southern Utah. That’s quite a difference in environments, but still the great outdoors.
We chose this week to be comfortably before Dan and Janet’s twins were due—we want to be available to offer some help to them when they are adjusting to two new babies at home.
It was a long drive to our motel in Hurricane (a few miles outside of St. George). We hit Las Vegas at dinner time, so I looked for a restaurant using my iPhone and found a Carino’s, one of our favorites. It was quite a ways off the freeway, and I imagine I took the slow way all on surface streets. After at least half and hour we arrived to find the restaurant permanently closed—out of business. What a waste of time.
We finally arrived at the motel around 9 pm, got settled in, and began to think about what to do tomorrow. We think we’ll bike ride into Zion Canyon.
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