Yes, the hammock was a good good idea, I downed 15mg of melatonin to make sure, but I dont think I needed to. This morning was much better than yesterday. With the exception of breakfast. There is technically a provided "breakfast." Mini wafles, toast, and hard boiled eggs. 
But then it was that or go get Dennys... probiably should have got Dennys but we where in a hurry. Walked out of the room that morning and saw that Mesa, and we just wanted to get to it as fast as possible.
Man it was a beautifull drive, and the speed limit of 80 for most of it makes it even better! It was a nice short morning's drive.
Then there was the inevitable, road construction! With obligatory board flagger.
We made it to Panguitch Utah by lunch time, and found a wonderfull lunch at Cowboy's Smoke House. I ordered the Philly Cheesse sandwich, a coffee, and a glass of ice. One cream bowl later and I have a coffee icer.
We decited to see Bryce Canyon, because being behind means its the perfict time to visit amazing land scapes! Naturally there was some roade construction allong the way.
While we where going through the slow moving section we noticed there where some prety cool rock structures. Little did we know what was to come.
I also snapped a photo of what the construction workers where actually doing. Apparently removing the road or something...
At one point they even put the road through an arch way.
Then we saw this nice snowy mountain in the distance and just couldnt resist snapping a photo!
We finally got in to see the actual canyon! or atleast the top part of it. It gets better!
This is going to be a photo dump, there is so much going on that I cant describe it all. I will try to point out a few notable things. A term that dad possibly coined or stole was tourons, the phenominom where seamingly normal people sudenly become morons simply by becomming tourists, its one of those "check your brain at the gate" type things we think. I will point out several of these.
Now here we almost have a classic example of Tourons, this poor fellow dropped his phone by holding it out over the edge just like I was. I would call him just unlucky though as whats the point of having a camera phone if you cant hold it over the edge and take pictures? He just slipped. I took pictures like that at Shashone falls and here and it didnt happen to me, so who knows!
But here, here really are some Tourons. The wind is blowing, the storm is comming, the sign says DO NOT CROSS, and what do these fine people do? climb down to stand on a crumbling rock spire 4 feet wide with 100-1000 foot drops on either side and hold their arms out!
We watched the ranger go over and talk with them. I was half hoping one of them would fall, or almost fall on video. It would have been tragic, but amazing!
Here we have some other people doing a similar stunt.
Now this is where the real tourons come in. These 2 ladies are sitting an a questionably alive root that is possibly half rotted that is suspended off the ground with their backs to a 200 foot drop for a nice photo. Now at least the other 2 where on rock, these 2 arent. That root could snap at any second and send you sprawling backwards flailing with your arms to not hit your head on the rock. Thing is, there is no rock behind you, just air, so you fall 200 feet and all of you hits the rock. To quote Tony Start "Not a great plan."
Oh, and incase that first image makes you think its safer than it is, its not. That branch could also flex sideways and spill them off the end of it into the same pit
This thing is really cool, I definitly want to hike down to it some day. But not today, A.) we are running out of time, B.) that storm is closing in, and C.) the hike down is actually closed today for "reconstruction"
And you can clearly see where it needs it
But apparently reconstruction means paving the damn thing so you can wheel grandma down into the depths of the earth on her wheel chair.
Well, thats about all for bryce canyon, I would highly recomend you see it in person, definitly worth the $35 week pass they sell (no day pass option btw, just week (who DOES THAT!)) Im sure you can find a cheep partly used week pass somewhere in town from some shady merchant who buys and sells passes that havent expired yet. But the park is amazing and even has a few hikes that I want to go on, and I never go on hikes. It seems to be a popular spot, we spotted French, Japanese, German, Chinese, Russian, and American tourist there all speeking their native toung, so I am assuming that even in their native countries this is a destination.
On the way out I saw this bus and had to get a picture because all I could think of was "Wait, who am I suppose to shoot?"
After that the storm did hit and we headed for Page AZ, the town whe where planning on spending the previous night in. To be fair, the est. 10 hour drive would have been a bit much even without other things, but we are already 4 hours in to this day and not even close yet. So to the road!... to back track 30 minutes to the actual highway that goes to Page because Bryce Canyon and associated town of Bryce is... well... in a canyon.... no through roads.... Aaaaany who we hit the same road construction we did on the way in on the way out, this time stopping twice, once under the stone arch even!
Back on the highway we had 100 miles of absolutly beautiful terrain. At some point we finished The Color of Magic and started on its sequal The Light Fantastic, same author, same reader also a good book, just not AS good as the first one. Still it lays a nice ground work for the rest of the series. Here is another photo dump of the wonderfull drive!
And naturaly there was road construction
We soon found the Grand Canyon!, well technically its Lake Powell on one side of the dam and Glen Canyon on the other side, but Lake Powell is just Grand Canyon that is full of water, and Glen Canyon is part of the same canyon network as The Grand Canyon so its the same ok! We snapped some wonerfull pictures and then drove accross the incredible tall bridge. So you know what that means! PHOTO DUMP!!!
all in all not as good as Bryce Canyon, but still impressive.
And we have finally made it to Page AZ! The place we where planning on staying last night! It is now 6:00PM. We looked arround for a good place for dinner, all we could find was a Denny's.
Except for the rocks, this place reminds me of home. Same grass and bushes and grass.
After a while poking arround Page we decited to try to make it further today so we dont loose a full day. And we head for Flagstaff. And for some reason they put a round about in the highway its self, still, I have seen worse.
Cool thing I just noticed about the lane markers here, the center lange has yellow retro reflectors, and the lane divider is white... but only on our side. On the other side of the road the lane divider is red. They are directional retroreflectors. Oh also, we saw a town called Gap, just thought that was interesting.
After an hour or so we stop in Cameron AZ at the Navajo Trail Tradin Post. I found a whole bunch of route 66 name plates there and took pictures of as many of my friends names as I could find. You can find them on this page, just search for your name and see if you can find on. I unfortunatly couldnt find all the names, but the one at the top should cover you if you dont see your name.
With this rest stop out of the way we continued on towards the Comfort Inn in Flagstaff.
We got there safely, the room is not much, but there is enough room to fit my hammock if you rotate one of the beds. It been a long day, we saw 2 amazing views and passed through more timezones than I can count and boy can I tell it in the images I took, so many jumps in the naming both backwards and forwards. Still we are right in the middle of the Grey Zone, so I suppose it makes a bit of sense. Night everyone.
Day 3