What a wonderful, great, awesome, inspiring, lovely day!!!!!!! Breakfast in Panguitch wasn’t too swell and I almost set the place on fire because my toasts didn’t jump out of the toaster… But from then on, things went great! A 7 mile ride along the Sevier River and then the turn onto scenic byway 12! Steady up it went. Even the new black stuff on the road could not spoil my day. Just before entering Red Canyon (guess why it’s name is Red Canyon?) I got on the bicycle path. It runs in between sagebushes and plants and I had a blast getting on and off the bicycle taking pictures of flowers.
It’s a climb, but it is so nice on the patch, away from the traffic. On top of the plateau it get’s suddenly green again, with grasses. The bicycle path keeps on going with rollers and here it was the first time of the summer I experienced a tailwind! Did I fly!!!! Just after the top there is a famous restaurant for soup and pie… what a combination… I only had a tomato cream soup. Then a last ride to Ruby’s campground where I was amazed at how empty it looked… But it was still early. I had a fight with my tent in the wind, but I conquered it and had it set where I wanted it. The food storage was another problem: the trees did not have branches without needles and after throwing the rope like twenty times, I finally got it over a branch and could lift my bag up in the air. I just hoped it was high enough (which I doubted). I finally got to take a shuttle to the park
and went first to Bryce Point. Then back in the shuttle to Sunrise point to get something to drink and walk along the rim for a while. It was awesome: the sky was sooooooo clear, you could see for miles!!!!
I had a peregrine falcon fly almost in my hair: the bird swooped out of the tree as I walked by! I feel so happy here in all this beauty! Tomorrow again!!!!
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