April 2022 – Stark Adventures

Day 36-38: On to Dixie Nat’l Forest and Bryce Canyon

April 20, 2022May 24, 2022karenstark

I am SOOOO far behind on this blog! Hopefully I’ll find some time to catch up. For the 17 days that we were with friends & family, we were too busy in the evenings for me to work on it. We only had Wi-Fi at Stark Park, and everywhere else we’ve been has had very marginal cell service, so I haven’t even been able to transfer pictures from my phone to Gladys, let alone load them into the blog library! 🤷‍♀️. Oh well… I guess we’ve been much more remote than when we’re on the boat where I can stay up-to-date.

4/6-Wednesday: We had a long 340-ish mile day planned, so we got up and going, out of the campsite and were entering the Grand Canyon National Park by 9:00. I finally got the sign!

Day 34 & 35: Kaibab Nat’l Forest at Grand Canyon

April 19, 2022May 24, 2022karenstark

Monday, April 4- We said thank you for ten fun-filled days with hugs good-bye to Kenny’s folks. Today we headed north to the Grand Canyon area of Arizona. We really had hoped to go to the North Rim, but the road is still under winter closure there. So the south rim wins for our visit this year. Both sides are surrounded by the Kaibab National Forest with lots of roads and trails for off-road discovery.
The route that we drove took us through the little town of Seligman (Sell-IG-men) which is on the old original Route 66.

Day 17 +7= 23: Florence with Friends

April 17, 2022May 24, 2022karenstark

Three weeks earlier…. Flashing Back…. like some TV shows do. 😉

Friday 3/18’s drive was a couple hundred miles, and we left or dusty sandy camping spot with no wind in sight. WHAT?! After the dust storm we’ve been in for two days, it stops the day we leave? 🤨 There were lots of rigs coming in for the weekend, so it was a good time to get out of their way. We came out and turned left, because we figured the road to the south was better, remember? It was good for awhile, then got really crappy with potholes and rough. And then…. it turned into a dirt road! Oh well. Sometimes a dirt/gravel road is better than a worn out paved road. We actually had fewer potholes and it was better!

What day is it, anyway?

April 10, 2022April 12, 2022karenstark

Today is Sunday, April 10 – Palm Sunday. 🌴 We are still alive, I promise. 👌 I figured I should at least tell you that much. We have been having a blast! We’ve spent a lot of time in places that have just one bar of cellular signal, so it has not been strong enough to load pictures into this blog. 🙁 And without pictures, what’s the point? 🤷‍♀️ We’ve only had wi-fi in one place, and there we were with family that we only see once a year and we were too busy for me to sit down and talk to you. Sorry about that.