The road to Bryce was a white knuckler for Gordon. Tight turns and many edges and big drop offs. We made it but Gordon swore he'd never drive it again.
Along the way we stopped at a neat rock shop with an interesting story. Before it was a rock shop it was a dinosaur mini park. The original owner was a quirky engineer whose hobby was dinosaurs. Over years he had built full scale fiberglas models of his favorites. When he sold his business and retired the State of Utah bought his whole collection and moved it to NE Utah. Quite a tribute to his hobby.
The Bryce canyon was very colorful. Charles took tons more photos than Gordon.....guess why! The edges at the viewing points were HUGE. Hence Gordon spent much time exploring other areas and Charles took the canyon edge pictures.
Charles saw some really really dumb families take their kids past prohibiting fences to get closer to the 2000' edge drop offs. Kids and adults are lost this way every year as the footing is also very unstable.
Had lunch at the Bryce Canyon Lodge and regrettably it was not good. We both had burgers and the meat was horrible. This experience was wonderfully eclipsed by dinner hours later at the Pines Hotel Restaurant.
Settled into the Steelers and Bangals game after dinner.
Overall a great day edges aside!
Hoodoos are the name of the towering columns of sedimentary rock rising from the canyon floor.
Next to last photo outside our motel room door.
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