Re: Utah Day 1

On Sat, 3 May 2025 17:04:46 -0500,
  sticks <wolverine01@charter.net> wrote:

 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.

I'm curious if you intentionally passed on camping at Kodachrome
St Park?  It is maybe close to 30 minutes beyond the highway, so
that could sure be a factor.

 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.

I keep active on my cell phone plan an option to use it as a
hotspot for just this reason.  It's not optimal, but better than
nothing if I need to plan routes (car or bike), campgrounds, or
activities.  My Acadia came with a data plan, so I can use it as a
hotspot if my phone isn't getting enough signal (two different
carriers).

I'm a little jealous of your visit to the Escalante Grand
Staircase.  That's very much on my list, but we didn't have time
to see much of it when we were there a year ago.  We did get
distant views from Bryce and Kodachrome, but distant.

Thanks for the reports and the pics!

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Ted Heise      <theise@panix.com>       West Lafayette, IN, USA