Jordanelle State Park

Tuesday, May 25.  After my morning walk, when Paul walked his dog up on the ridge and spooked a couple deer, which jumped the path and joined 4 other deer, we drove into the little town of Manti to look around.

  Life is good -- the lilacs are in bloom in Utah!








Manti has a beautiful Mormon temple and is a very pretty little town.

Then we headed up the road, with a quick stop at WalMart in the next town.  We had a quick lunch along the road, in a valley between the snow-covered mountains.  OMG, is Utah beautiful!  As we sat there in such beauty, I did give a thought to all our Arizona family and friends who are probably suffering in the 100 degree heat by now. 

I thought I would take a picture of the road ahead, but around every corner seemed to be an even better view, so I will post a few pictures of "the road ahead."

You can imagine what a chore it is to drive for hours (maybe 3) with this scenery (actually, Joe does have a hard time keeping his eyes on the road).  We drove through Provo, which is in a beautiful setting at the base of the mountain.

then through Provo Canyon (gorgeous) and on to Jordanelle State Park, which is absolutely beautiful too. ( I need to find some more adjectives, or get out of this state), where we set up camp for 2 nights.

We got in about 130 miles today.  We've been on the road for 8 days now and are only in Utah -- we know we need to start putting in some miles or we will never get to Alaska.  But not tomorrow.  Tomorrow we are doing Salt Lake City.