Day 25: July 11, 2013: Bryce Canyon

  • Jul 15, 2013
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Scott started the morning with a 32 mile bike ride.  He traveled to Angel’s Point and back.

Scott wanted you to know this ride was powered by Nutrisystem.

 

After a delicious breakfast of pancakes we headed to the Bryce Canyon Visitor’s Center.  We spent some time talking with our neighbors about the wild night before.

 

Cody started the morning with digging again.  The visitor’s center had some great hands-on activities including a tiny room that showed the night sky.  While I was trying to figure out where the kids disappeared to I met Renee who showed me the tiny hidden room and my giggling children.  The photo on the right is of Ebenezer Bryce, a Mormon pioneer to the area, the very man Bryce Canyon was named after.

Andrew was the park ranger who gave the kids their junior ranger books.  He is a grad student working on his masters in geology.  He also recommended the ranger talk on geology at 11:30. He did a great job of combining humor, relating to the kids, and including important information.  He taught us that Bryce Canyon really isn’t a canyon after all.  It is really the eroded edge of a plateau.  Andrew reasoned that isn’t as much fun to say as canyon.

We met up with Renee and Scott and their two cuties from Cape Cod at the ranger talk and then we chatted for about an hour about traveling and camping with little ones.  They were traveling much longer hours than we were.  They also had the added challenge of no way to recharge their cameras, phones, or even their car adapted crock pot as their electrical system kept blowing a fuse.  Renee was super organized with activities for the kids, meals, and their daily itinerary.  Renee and family were headed to a cabin in Colorado for a one week vacation from their camping trip.  That was the second family we met that was going to end their extended camping trip with a more relaxing vacation.  The other family was the family from Holland and they were headed to Hawaii.

The afternoon rain was a little longer than usual today.  We hid out in the van for a while working on the junior ranger books.  We went back to the visitor’s center to turn in our books and spend more time out of the rain. It seemed like the rest of the world had the same idea.

Scott put up a tarp in our neighbor’s campsite with his help.  It wasn’t the best day to ask Scott to make pizza, but it was oh so delicious.  Our neighbor, Jonathon, had literally just graduated from his undergrad in geology the week before.  He was out on field study in Montana and was slowly working his way back to Texas.  He was incredibly excited about the geology of Bryce Canyon and geology as a whole.  When I was wrapping up for the night I noticed he was hanging out in his trunk reading a geology textbook.  One of the chapters of his book had Bryce Canyon as the cover picture.  Jonathon’s enthusiasm for learning was inspirational.

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