Alright, so we left Vegas nice and early this morning... sometime before 8am.

We zoomed off to Zion. That didn't take too terribly long. We hung out there, did a short few mile walk, and decided to go to Bryce Canyon. What happened to Death Valley? Well, it was too direct. ;)

Bryce Canyon was very cool. Such a spectacular view. Add to that 1x coverage while viewing and you can see the result on my phlog (see sidebar).

After Bryce, we started off towards Nevada where there's the Great Basin National Park, the only one in the state. However, we discovered on our way that it doesn't open until May.

That didn't stop us. We decided to go across the middle of Nevada anyway. When we got into Nevada after having driven a long way in the dark on straight roads. This particular border casino was amazingly pathetic. Heh.

We're now in Ely, Nevada in some hotel. Naturally, we have 1x coverage. In fact, we seem to have 1x coverage just about everywhere, even in the national parks. It's been nice for photo blogging and getting online. But it's also a big change from when getting even analog coverage in remote areas was hard.

With over 500 miles of driving and over 4 miles of hiking today I'm exhausted. And we still have to get home all in one day. The quick route home goes 50 through Reno to 80 and back. Mapquest lists that at 600 miles. But we're going to go east to 395 at around Mono Lake and then north to South Lake Tahoe and over. We'll see... ;)

Posted by Shane on March 28, 2004 10:23 PM | Permalink