M&R's Vacation Stories

Link to Photos of Big Bend Yours Truly (Photo credit: Rebe) If you have been paying attention then you might recall that we were in the Big Bend area of Texas back in May when the pandemic was ramping up, but while we were there the national park was closed so we had to settle for the state park.  Well, the national park is open now and we decided to drive the 10 hours again to see it during it's peak season...winter.  Sadly it's also peak COVID season.  We decided to stay in the same location we did last time in the thriving metropolis of Study Butte-Terlingua Texas.  Day 1 Dec 9th Finally we get our chance to see what we missed in May , BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK.  We decided that the first day would be an easy day, mostly driving and seeing most of the park.  The park is 50 miles wide in a straight line so seeing all of it in a day is a tough go, but our focus today was the easternmost section of the park.  We started with a quick stop at the main visi...

Utah Part 1 Ranger Rebe at Dead Horse Point Capitol Reef Album Arches Album Canyonlands Album Day 11 Moving Day It is always sad leaving a beautiful place like Zion, which may or may not have made it into my top three favorite National Parks. But this is the day we left, this is a Saturday and it was rightfully planned this way as you can imagine most parks are slightly more crowded on the weekends so being at Zion on a Saturday was not in the cards.  This is also why we went to Bryce first weekend instead.  The move now is towards the middle of southern Utah, to the least known of the Mighty 5, Capitol Reef National Park.  Capitol Reef is only three and a half hours from Zion, but with so much beauty in southern Utah we decided to take the long route and see some of the cool sights. We left the park through the east entrance, the same as which we entered and headed toward Kanab. From Kanab we continued heading west on US 89 through Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monu...