Utah Day 1

We stayed the first part of the Utah trip in the town of Cannonville, UT at an RJourney park.  I believe these RJourney parks used to be KOA places, but I'm not entirely sure.  It's right on Utah 12 and is only a 10 minute drive or so to Bryce Canyon.  I thought the place was just fine.  Reasonably priced, with clean bathrooms and showers, laundry, and firewood available.
The one bad thing about this place was the terrible internet service they had.  I've had similar things happen in hotels with an older laptop I have, but it just would not connect my laptop.  I contacted their support and they were unable to assign my MAC address for some reason or another they couldn't explain.  So I could not use the laptop, wife could not get her Android to hook up, and I had to log back in with a new Iphone ever 5 minutes or so.  The hook up to the network was just fine, but the damn provider they had with the ridiculous sign on to get to the internet was horrible.  Trying to plan routes and do all the things we take for granted these days become very apparent when you can't get on the internet.  Oh well. Here's a few pics of the little campground.
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Night time temps were a little warmer than our previous nights.  It was around 38-40F or lows, and quickly warmed up in the morning.  I watched the sun rise over the hill each morning and really enjoyed that.   We did have to run the heater every night we were on the trip, used the gas for hot water and taking showers, and cooked on the weber grill.  I was amazed that I managed the whole trip, even with having to have the heat on, without having to refill the tank and am just above 1/4 on the LP tank level.  Seemed very efficient to me for 15 nights of heat.
After three days of driving and acclimating to the elevation, we decided the first day to take a nice easy hike.  We were both ready to move and do some walking.  We headed to Bryce Canyon just up the road and did the Queens Garden/Navajo Loop hike.  This is probably the most popular of all the hikes in Bryce because it only has about 600 feet of climb and is just shy of 3.5 miles in length.  Unfortunately, that means you will most likely have plenty of company.  As we were so early in the season, it wasn't overcrowded, but the 80F temps did bring out many people.
The trail shows a little of everything Bryce is famous for...
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And on this trail everyone talks about the small section of switchbacks
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Which were really not much to worry about.  Still, the knee swelled up a bit and we decided we'd do a day of hiking, and then a day of off-roading from then on and hope I could keep up.  Fortunately, my wife coddled me for the rest of the hiking.
Here's the track of the loop we did.
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It was a great start at seeing the area again and the weather was perfect!
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