Utah!

We left Williams AZ this morning at 8am, driving east until we got to Flagstaff and then turned north on US route 89.  This is a really nice road, not a highway, but very scenic.  Talk about red earth and towering cliffs!  The neat thing - we will be on this road all the way into Montana and up to Glacier National Park on the border of Canada.  Our route took us through Navajo territory, very barren, but how do the people (Dine') live like this?  We traveled along the eastern edge of the Grand Canyon up past it to Page to make the turn heading west and north.  No water, no trees, but still small communities in the middle of nowhere land.  We had planned to stop in Page, AZ to tank up the truck, which is where Glen Canyon Recreational Area, Glen Canyon Dam, and Lake Powell is.  Talk about amazing!  This is where the Colorado River gets dammed up and the government monitors the release of water - this is the river that eventually flows through the Grand Canyon. Lots of million dollar homes advertised - have a breath taking view of Lake Powell right from your living room! Lots of jet skis, boats, and RV parks are in Page - a big mecca for outdoor types.  Hot, but there's water!

Got into some trouble before we stopped in Page - only we didn't know it until Dave did a walk around while filling up the tank. Dave said we had a 'problem' in the far back of the RV - I hadn't a clue what he was talking about until I walked to the back and saw insulation  hanging from the frame of the RV and the pan that covers the fresh water tank under the RV belly just hanging.  What the heck?  Fortunately the support for the back jacks was holding 1/2 of it up - enough not to drag on the ground.  We did drive over some rough road along the way, and when he pulled the RV to the side and we got under the RV to look - poor design.  The pan broke away from the bolts holding it up.  Dave got rope out and strung up the pan and weaved the rope back and forth and tied it off, hoping we'd make it to our campground in Glendale, UT which is a very very small town on Route 89, and 89 is paralleling Interstate 15 - so if we have to get to a big town - just drive about 30 miles west.  And, where we are in Glendale - we are in the middle of Zion National Park, Bryce Canyon National Park, and about 30 miles north of the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.  Lots to see and do and Dave already contacted someone to come to the campground to fix our problem - this weekend.  We will sit here now until July 5th then move more north towards Salt Lake City.