A timelapse of driving our Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome 124 miles from Hatch, Utah to Torrey, Utah.
Travel from Hatch to Torrey, UT
We drove our coach 124 miles, about 3 hours, from Hatch, Utah to Torrey, Utah.
Here’s the map, heading northeast:
Heading down the highway:
Paladin spent much of the time in his safe space next to my chair, as usual:
Some nice old buildings in Panguitch (I’m going to try to take more pictures of interesting towns we pass through):
Nice houses:
I worked on my laptop while Jenn drove:
Butch Cassidy’s childhood home:
An old building:
Junction, our turn:
Mountains:
Interesting rocks:
The Otter Creek Reservoir:
Lots of straight portions of the highway:
Which are a convenient and fairly safe time for me to get up and grab a snack from the fridge:
Mountains:
Never Rip Overalls:
Some horses crossing the highway:
More road and mountains:
Up and down:
Interesting rocks:
Arriving at our destination for a few nights:
Paladin on the dash while Jenn is checking in:
Olympic National Park bonus pictures
Back in October last year we took a day trip to Olympic National Park in Washington state. Here are some recently processed bonus pictures taken by Jenn:
Video: truck driving through Red Canyon and around Kodachrome Basin State Park
A short timelapse video of driving through Red Canyon, then around Kodachrome Basin State Park in Utah, including a dirt road portion.
Kodachrome Basin State Park
While we concentrate on National Parks, we also like to visit other interesting parks as we explore. One such was Kodachrome Basin State Park in Utah:
Like much of Utah, it features lots of interesting rock formations:
We had a picnic lunch in a nice sheltered picnic area:
Then strolled along a nature trail:
I liked how this cloud lined up with the rock tower, to make it look like smoke from a chimney:
Finally, we went for a drive on a dirt road to see some more rocks:
Stay tuned for a timelapse video.
Mossy Cave Trail hike, Bryce Canyon
Within the Bryce Canyon National Park boundary, but separated from the main part of the park, is a short hike called Mossy Cave Trail. This hike is 0.8 miles (1.3 km) out-and-back, with an elevation change of 300 feet (91m).
Here’s the trailhead:
Jenn with hiking poles; the first time we used them, very useful on the steep and rough path:
Some nice views from the trail:
A waterfall:
Another path leads to the Mossy Cave:
Really more of an overhang than a cave:
Still some ice lingering in the shade:
Bryce Canyon National Park at sunset
We visited Bryce Canyon National Park again around sunset, on two consecutive nights.
On the first night, we had a fancy dinner at Stone Hearth Grille in Tropic, Utah, in the “canyon” of Bryce (it’s not really a canyon):
Then into Bryce Canyon:
As you may have noticed, those pictures didn’t have much alpenglow, as the sun was already too low to reach the canyon. So we decided to go again the next night, a bit earlier.
This time, we had dinner at Bryce Canyon Pines, a more casual traditional American restaurant (with very tasty food):
And into Bryce Canyon once again:
Much better alpenglow this time:
We enjoyed having a viewpoint to ourselves:
A more popular viewpoint:
Another quiet viewpoint:
Video: timelapse of truck driving through Zion National Park
We drove our truck through Zion National Park (a second time). This is a timelapse from the dashcam of driving all the way through and back again, with some nice alpenglow.
Zion National Park again
We visited Zion National Park again, in the late afternoon and evening, and took several hundred more photos. Here are a bunch of the nice ones.
Heading through the mile-long tunnel:
A couple of the tunnel windows:
A fun game we play when visiting parks is to look for and pick up garbage. Because people suck, and we want to leave our parks better than we found them. This is my haul from one viewpoint:
We had dinner at a Thai restaurant just outside the park:
We’ve seen a couple of restaurants that have checkboxes for tips. I wish every restaurant would do this; it’s so much more convenient:
(Bringing an ApplePay terminal to the table is even nicer. Better yet, how about paying a living wage and getting rid of tipping, but this is an improvement over having to do the math.)
Back into the park:
Back through the tunnel:
The smaller tunnel:
Video: timelapse of truck driving in Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument
We drove our truck in Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, along Burr Trail Road to the Singing Canyon, a delightful little slot canyon that is easy to access from the road (most require a several mile hike to reach). This is a timelapse of driving to and from there, with lots of interesting rocks on the way. Plus a couple of cows.