Attention: This post, like so many travel entries I made in the earliest days of blogging, was a mere one photo. Here in late 2022, I’ve been repairing them.

Left Kanab, Utah, as the sun crept over the horizon, with it just visible, we were passing the Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park at the start of a beautiful day.

Woah, this is Maisy the Donkey, who we just met last year during winter and was a juvenile; her coat was much darker. As a young lady donkey, she’s shed that thick hair, and her ears sprouted right up. We are passing through Glendale, Utah.

This is John Ninomiya flying his cluster balloons near Panguitch, Utah, at their annual balloon rally.

While I can tell you that we are on state route 89, I can’t tell you anything else here other than I loved the reflection.

Courthouse Inn in Junction, Utah, is for rent for people who might need eight bedrooms and 4.5 bathrooms for that larger family reunion they’ve been planning.

Many of the photos I take are for the future should the day come when we can’t explore these areas, and we need the reminder of what the landscape looked like when we were able to travel and stop wherever and whenever we felt like it.

Driving by free-flowing water always demands an extra moment when you understand that so little of America’s waterways are still flowing and not dammed.

It may feel like summer at home, but the green and the snowcapped mountains remind us that spring is just giving way to summer in other parts of the states.

I could tell you we went to see a performance of A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor today at Abravanel Hall in Salt Lake City, Utah, but no one we know has heard of this National Public Radio show. Linda Ronstadt and Ann Savoy performed, as did Ramblin’ Jack Elliot.

Ramblin’ Jack Elliot is a bit of a legend having studied under Woody Guthrie and subsequently using that influence to help Guthrie’s son Arlo learn the craft.

We’ve heard their voices a hundred times, that is, Fred Newman (left), Tim Russell (middle),  and Sue Scott (right), who live on from their performances in Guy Noir, The Lives of the Cowboys, and of course the messages from the Catchup Advisory Board.

It was a great show for those of us oldies who like that kind of thing.

After the show, we took a walking tour of the downtown area, visiting Temple Square and admiring the people walking around a bustling downtown area with open restaurants and cafes.

The UTA light rail system moving people around actually had riders late in the day – take that, Phoenix.

Our day ended at Bountiful Lake, pictured above, near the Great Salt Lake and Ogden. Lodging was at the Alana Motel in Clearfield, Utah.