Back in Arizona Via a Zig Zag Drive Out of Utah

Yesterday was a crazy zig-zaggy kind of day traveling.  We left Kanab, Utah at 9am without a problem.  We were able to drug up Buddy about an hour before by grinding his pill down to powder and adding a tidge of water then using a medicine dropper and forcing it down his throat.  We hoped that the drug would work and he not get berserk like he did on the prior trip.

Formations right outside of Kanab

Getting my fix of red rock - will be a long, long time till
we see it again

Zion NP as seen from Hurricane, Utah

Zion National Park

We started our drive headed for the city of Hurricane which was west of Kanab and it sits on Interstate 15 in Utah.  Crossed back over into Utah and picked up I15 south to Las Vegas.  Through St. George then on through the Virgin River Canyon which was very spectacular in rock formations.  Dropped way down and along the river for about 15 miles then came back out of the canyon and hit the speed bump back into Arizona - again.  Traveled along in a wide open nothingness, drove into Nevada.

Dropped down into Hurricane to catch Interstate 15

Into Virgin River Canyon 

Muddy Virgin River flowing beside us through Canyon

And out of canyon near Mesquite

Las Vegas showed in our sights not long after and into the traffic and congestion of Vegas.  Ugh.  Dave was shocked that people allowed him to change lanes when he put on his turn signal, imagine that.  Left Vegas and headed south on Route 93, passed through Boulder and had Lake Mead Recreational Area and Hoover Dam on our left.  Lots of people visiting the dam.

Lots of wide open nothingness

Vegas, baby

Lake Mead - big bathtub ring also

Colorado River just south of Hoover Dam

Down into the Colorado River Canyon, spotted the Colorado in the distance and continued on.  Wide open nothingness.  Barren, dry, hot.  But we plugged along.  Not a peep out of Buddy all that time.  Stopped to gas up about 20 miles from our turnoff, jumped back on the route and got into Chloride by 1:15pm.  We entered back into Pacific time so our 283 miles was done in a little over 4 hours.  Utah to Arizona to Utah to Arizona to Nevada to Arizona.  Moved back and forth between Mountain and Pacific time zones for 5 1/2 hours.  Crazy.  And once we opened up the slides and started putting the RV into ‘rest’ mode, Buddy came out bright eyed and happy.

On onward we trekked

Home for the next week

We are in a small campground in Chloride, Arizona, about 15 miles north west of Kingman.  Chloride  is the oldest living silver mining town in Arizona and has the oldest continuously operating Post Office in Arizona.  Will check out the town and see what there is to see.  Will be here for 1 week, getting acclimated back to the extremely dry, sunny, hot weather before dropping down to Picacho for the winter.