October 27th, 2009
Road Trip to Salt Lake City
We are in a raod trip heading north out of Phoenix and ending up in Salt Lake City, Utah. The drive is about 650 miles and goes across some spectacular country side. We are going to be taking out time on the trip, not needing to get there quickly we will be stopping at several National Parks on the way.
The plan is to head north to Flagstaff where we will pick up highway 89 north toward Page, AZ. Then we are going to be headed to Big Water where we will spend some time with an old friend. Big Water is a wierd place. It started to be developed because the original plan for Lake Powel was that the water from the lake would fill up to the Big Water area. During the construction of the dam plans were changed to lower the lake level. Thus the lake never came to Big Water, so really there is very little water in Big Water. Any way my friend moved up there a year ago and is building a passive solar house on some land there she inhearited. It sohould be really cool to see her and check out what she is up to there in the middle of no where.
From Big Water we are going to visit the Coral Pink Sand Dunes state park. This is a soectacular place where the sand is really coral pink and the topography of the land causes the sand to pile up into dunes. After that we will drive through Zion, not really a proper way to see Zion but better than nothing. From there we will need to get ourselves to Salt Lake City so we don’t miss out on our reservations at hotels Salt Lake. We will be there for five days and on our return trip home we will be visiting Arches National Park and Monument valley.