After a fantastic night sleep in a Hampton Inn, we had a nice continental breakfast and headed to the SLC airport. We were all sad to see big Jimmy leave, but happy that he's going home to keep all of our pets company. After dropping him off, we checked in to the Salt Lake City KOA. We got everything all set up and looking good for Grandma's arrival...we wanted to make sure she likes it right from the beginning. Right after we finished set up, the phone rings, a...

I was awake VERY early since I pretty much had not slept anyway. We got up and packed and out of the campsite as soon as possible. Translation = 9:10 a.m. We headed across the street to an RV repair shop. I had stopped in there the night before on the way to buy slingshots and spoke to a VERY old man who assured me they could work on our trailer in the morning. I forgot to mention that we developed a new problem with the trailer yesterday. J The emergency bre...

Well, our grand plan of waking up early and hitting the road before the main road between Zion and Bryce closed "fail"ed (Jimmy Jr's favorite word this summer.) I woke up in time to get us out the door, but read online that we MUST DO the shuttle bus tour of Zion. Since we will likely never be back here again, I decided we MUST DO it. We had a great breakfast and got on (and off and on and off) the shuttle. Round trip it was about an hour, and defin...

We left Lees Ferry and headed to Jacobs Lake, dropped our trailer off and drove down into the N. Rim of the Grand Canyon. Altogether about a two hour drive. Remarkably different than the S Rim, as everyone had told us. Very lush and green, many different types of trees. Remember the hail storm we had on Saturday? The N Rim got 6 inches of hail accumulation that day!! There were still remnants on the ground in a few places. Amazing. We didn't do much hiking...jus...