Today started with big blue skies filled with big puffy clouds. The temperature was perfect for our gear level. It’s pretty tough to tell how the road is going to feel during the load up part of the morning. You typically feel over dressed, because while loading your body temperature goes up. For example no matter the temperature, my sun glasses fog if I put them directly against my face before I start moving.
So with a clear forecast we head to Zion national park.
On the way there the scenery was amazing. It’s something you need to see with your own eyes to truly appreciate. Think about the old school Coyote and Roadrunner cartoons, it was miles of awesome like that today. Once we got close to Zion a shift in the force was obvious. There they were, massed humanity. Oh no. Urge to kill rising!  We sat in a line of cars for probably 20+ minutes. Our cold weather gear betrayed us and soon sweat was everywhere. Once through, we geared down and headed in. Robots grouped up everywhere, thinking of only themselves and the horde they are closest to. They drive way below the speed limit, stop in the road instead of pull outs, or attempting to pass when there isn’t any possible way. The scenery, absolutely beautiful…when you could safely pay attention to it. At one point we were stopped waiting to be allowed to drive through a tunnel, it was the hottest it’s been on the Funcut, and Swampkat says, “This sucks.”  I completely agreed. Being surrounded by all those people and not being able to enjoy the road is aweful. (Not as bad as work, but close) The tunnel was cool, but again, the humans. What do we have to do to get a rapture up in here?
Leaving the park and heading into Navajo territory we rode through beautiful scenery and got hit with a little rain here and there. I saw clouds that were the huge puffy type, but their undersides were a reddish pink. It was awesome. Though the terrain is beautiful, it is not fertile. Once again we found ourselves cursing the people who were responsible for relocating a tribe. How selfish they were/are.
We are currently staying deep in the Navajo territory tonight and will push to the north rim of the Grand Canyon tomorrow.
Before coming here we did some research on this area and one of the things they said was be ready to see dead animals on the side of the road. We saw 1. What’s funny, well not actually funny, is in Utah I don’t think there’s anyone in charge of removing road kills. The were everywhere! I’ve never seen that many ever. From mummified deer and calves, full size dear, birds, little unidentifiable fuzzy stains, to at worst (sorry) skin and hair smashed flat into the road and raw chucks of flesh smashed and spread across the road. It was graphic and not something forgettable. Like I said sorry. I’ve given a lot of shit to Utah, but it was a great place outside of salt lake city. I want to mention how well their drivers are on the freeways. They use signals, pass well, and just seemed more aware of their surroundings. We were watching TV while in Utah and saw a commercial that seemed out of place or out of time at least. It was a click it or ticket commercial. It was typically a family trying to convince the man in the car to wear their seat belt. Low budget and lame, what actual caught my eye was when the commercial said, Enforcement starts now. I was like wait, now? It’s 2016, what the hell? That explains why cell phones were everywhere on the road. Apparently it’s 1995 in Utah.
Now, time to see what Tuba, Arizona had to offer, see you guys around.