Nights are often either too hot or too cold… My boss keeps throwing the sleeping
bag off or on her. At 7 am the sun was coming from behind the trees. Time to
get up. A rather lazy breakfast at Ruby’s General Store, ending with sending a
package to St. George – less weight to carry on the bicycle. Well, Sweet
Machine is still resting at the campground. Hopefully it will still work on
Monday! Yup, I get to stay at the campground while the boss gets to play in
Bryce Canyon again – taking the shuttle bus. A mama deer with two babies were
crossing the road – a happy feeling again! My boss takes the Sunset campground
stop, which means she’ll have to walk along the rim to Sunrise point. She finds
the quietness along the rim amazing. There must be so many people in the park,
but once away from Sunset point, where the tourist busses unload noisy French
people, the serenity of the park returns. With one exception – the Queens
Garden trail. This awesome trail takes you from the rim to the bottom of the
Bryce amphitheater. It is the most popular trail and there is always some
people around.
My woman gets to see Queen Victoria,
a huge rock being held in
place by a tree
and the many holes in the rock made to get people through the
rocks.
She also finishes her quest for the special signs which is part of “stay
healthy and move” – getting American kids (and adults too it said in the
brochure) to move more. The goal is to find 3 different signs along hikes in
the park, take a picture of them and then pick up your reward in the Visitor
Center. Of course, my human was eager to find out what the reward was and she
just had to find 3 of those signs.
The Navajo loop trail connects with the
Queens Garden trail. This trail is famous for “Wall street” and the narrow,
steep winding path that leads from the bottom all the way to the rim again.
The
human newspaper says this is the best 3 mile hike in the world! Well, my boss
does love it! The hike is always different – so many things to see. Back on the
rim, my boss thinks she should still go to Inspiration point – a viewpoint she
hasn’t been to this year yet. Uphill along the rim now. A lonesome tree seems
to be a perfect rest stop – inhaling all of Bryce, if that’s possible. Become
one. At the highest overlook she hears thunder – still far away, but the way
the clouds move – on the way to Bryce. Time to call it a day and head to the
Visitor center – picking up the hiking reward (a nice pin) – and then to Bryce
City (or Rubyville). My boss is sooooo lucky – she has just time to get settled
in her cabin when the white rocks fall down from the sky again.
What a lot of
rain. Hey boss, don’t you smell this – this ugly smell? It comes from the back
of the cabin. As she looks through the window, my boss notices a narrow cage,
covered with a blue tarp. But wait… there is something white and black in it –
does it move… she keeps looking and suddenly she sees like teeth… it’s an
animal – and what animal is white and black and smells ugly??? Yup, it’s a
skunk stuck in the cage! When the storm has blown over, she goes outside to the
back of the cabin – but keeps her distance. Nothing to see now. Well, she
decides to go to the manager at the entrance, where she tells this weird story.
They begin to laugh at the office – yes, they say, we finally trapped it! When
my woman got back a car with three boys showed up. One brave guy got the
closest and pulled the tarp all over it. The three of them lifted the cage and
stuck it in the car. They were going to bring it to some other place – hopefully
far enough from our home!
BTW – my boss says sitting on a saddle of a
bicycle is like sitting in a sofa, compared to sitting on a horse saddle: she
can still feel yesterday’s ride!
BTW2: So far I have seen on TV and heard on the
radio a lot about the upcoming presidential elections. Those two guys are
campaigning and when one says this, the other one reacts and says that. It is a
fierce battle between those two and I wonder who the people will choose!
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