Friday September 1st 2017

I stayed at home today. After yesterday’s high level of activity associated with the hiking in Zion National Park and an interrupted night’s sleep, I wasn’t in the mood for much activity today. I had the alarm set for 5:45 this morning to attempt to get a reservation next March 1st in the Fort Meyers area of Florida. Knowing the alarm was going to go off early, I kept waking up to see if it was time to get up yet. I know that’s why I set the alarm, but … I didn’t get the one available site, just like I missed the available sites on the twenty fifth and twenty sixth of August. I’ll try again tomorrow morning. There are three sites available then.

The labor day weekend is here. I don’t know what happened to the summer. I’ve been in the Utah area since the end of June. My stay in West Wendover NV in early July was within yards of the Utah boarder. Next week I’ll move to the Lake Powell area. I’ll technically be in Arizona, but within yards of Utah. In West Wendover I had Salt Lake City TV channels. I’m not sure if I’ll have Salt Lake City or some Arizona based stations in the Lake Powell area. All of Utah seems to have the same Salt Lake City based stations. Unfortunately, this is important to the impression you get of an area. I’ve come to understand and know what to expect of the news broadcasts out of Salt Lake City.

I’m going to share more pictures of Zion National Park in this blog entry. The way I’m including these pictures is different from the previous method. These pictures are links to the full scale versions of the pictures. The way I’ve been including them involved extensive, time consuming, editing to reduce the size of the images before uploading them to the Word Press blog hosting site.

This weekend I plan to visit the Kolob Canyons Unit of Zion National Park. This area is north of here off of Interstate 15. It isn’t as heavily visited as the main unit. Hopefully, it won’t bee too crowded on the holiday weekend.