Milestone: 2 Months on the Road!
While in Lake Powell we stayed at Wahweap Campground and this was one of our favorites. The sites are spread apart and staggered so the views were of the lake and buttes.
We were able to get a tour of lower Antelope Canyon via kayak. (In 2016 we toured upper Antelope Canyon, we will include a couple pictures from that trip in the gallery, it is amazing). Most people know Antelope canyon from the iconic pictures of a multicolor slot canyon that is a hiking adventure. Those parts of Antelope are on Navajo land and are closed due to Covid, but the canyon is 25 miles long and part of it is accessible from Lake Powell. Our kayak trip started at 9am first by walking, what seemed like a mile down the boat ramp; I know I have never seen a ramp that long and I was already dreading the hike back up! We paddled about 4 miles into the canyon where there were very few people. Our guide explained that all of the water and electricity that is generated by the dam goes to California…it is mind blowing considering most of the Navajo Nation does not have running water or electricity but that is a whole other discussion! We finished about noon and had to hike up the ramp….I am not exaggerating it was like hiking the Grand Canyon! The tour was with Hidden Kayak Tours and well worth it!
Another day we hiked to Toadstools Hoodoos. The hike was mostly sand (hate it) but opened up to a landscape one might find on another planet! Toadstools are spire-like structures with a boulder perched on top of a pedestal rock, like a toadstool! A fun hike, so glad we did it!
Yesterday afternoon we went to Horseshoe Bend, a place that most people have seen in photographs of the southwest. It is gorgeous view of the Colorado river winding in the shape of a horseshoe…This is a walk…about a mile and a half and because of it’s popularity it is “Covidville”. We wore masks the entire time…got down there took our pictures and got the hell out! LOL.
Now for the BS part of Lake Powell…When we were getting ready to leave our last campsite (Kaibab Paiute RV Park) I was dumping our sewer, yep, my job, not Carol’s…rather than standing watching the sewer hose, I went to the back of the Airstream and was looking at the bike rack. Good thing I did, the bracket that is connected to the back of the trailer was snapped in half! WTH! So, as I always do, I go to the door and say, “Carol, we have a problem…you need to come out here”. Last time I did that, I had the sewer hose in a pipe that went nowhere…another story for another time! We had to leave, so we reconfigured everything in the back of the truck and put the bikes in with the front wheels hanging over the tailgate. We called Colonial Airstream and they said they had the parts and would send them priority mail (mistake #1). We gave them the address of Wahweap Campground (mistake #2)and all was good (we thought, mistake #3). We arrived in Lake Powell, the truck was not damaged, bikes were not damaged so we thought that was that…the parts were to arrive on the 15th. Nope, that was not the way it rolled….I got a notice from the post office that the package would not arrive until the 19th! We were supposed to leave on the 17th…so we dealt with it and extended our stay. Well, we went to find the package on the 19th, we knew was delivered via the tracking number. We went to the campground office (useless), went to the lodge (useless), went to HR office (semi-useless), went to the post office (useless), went back to all of the above (all useless) then sat in the truck going through all of the prompts on their main phone number…Carol hit the prompt for the warehouse…If I had known that was who she was talking to I would have told her it was USELESS….but the guy found the package in the WAREHOUSE! WTH! The bike rack is fixed, the bikes are on the rack and we left today for Homolovi State Park in Winslow AZ.
To be continued….
