Wake up, woman … we are in Bryce! You are
supposed to be on the move! There are so many options for my boss – I wonder
which one she will choose: a bicycle ride to the south end of the park? (No,
Sweet Machine is tired!) A hike across the bottom of the amphitheatre? No,
another day! We will walk along the rim to the Fairyland trailhead. Last year
we started out on this trail, but returned about a quarter of the way. As soon
as we leave the Sunrise viewpoint behind us, there is hardly anyone to be seen
on the trail. It’s a silent walk along hoodoo’s
and bristlecone pine trees.
The path rolls up and down, giving us a view
of the “Chinese Wall”.
As my woman is walking she suddenly realizes she did
leave a message in her room where she was walking to (you never know in case
she would not return!) but she had no cell phone with her! (Who cares – there
is no reception here anyways – but wait doesn’t 911 works everywhere?) Then she
thinks about the whistle and the bear spray (this could be used against anyone
in case of an emergency!) still hanging on her handle bar bag … up in the room.
She also suddenly notices a man ahead of her – waiting and waiting and waiting.
What to do… she thinks! A couple comes up from behind! Let’s hang around them!
Now we can easily pass the strange man (he’s is making a phone call…) and head
on with our walk. She climbs until she reaches a plateau: grass and flowers –
no hoodoos here – and tracks of wildlife in the muddy earth. Time to start
singing again since the German couple is somewhat slower than my boss. At a
viewpoint my human notices the sign of the quest for healthy living.
Here my
boss waits for the couple and then has a talk with them: they are going to do
the whole Fairyland loop. Wow! That’s a hike my boss wants to do - but not all by herself. Now my boss chooses
to return to the more populated places on the rim. She starts out on the trail
to the Tower Bridge but suddenly remembers what she wrote on the note in the
room and returns again. Time for lunch at Sunrise point general store: a hot dog (yeah - dogs do get hot here!) and a visit to the rest room where some good advice is hanging!
In the afternoon she hangs out at the Sunset Point –
goes down a while on the Navajo Loop.
Sitting on a bench along the rim is also
one of her activities – just absorbing it all or those days in Belgium when the
weather is grey again and things do not work out the way we want it to go. Later
that evening, as my boss sets out for the sunset, some raindrops sent her back
to the room. Listening to Carlos Nakai is also a great way to spent the
evening!
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