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We spent last night at another Comfort Inn, this time in the little town of Kenab, Utah, southeast of Zion National Park. Sheila wanted to take the opportunity of the remote location to see the Milky Way in all its glory, so we set the clock to 4 a.m., actually rousted ourselves at that insane hour, bundled up, left the hotel and drove back toward Zion, and found the deserted Kenab Canyon Road, parked on the shoulder, cut of the motor and lights, got out and looked up... into a sky almost completely obscured by clouds. Oh, well, maybe next time.
After breakfast we headed for the eastern entrance to Zion. There was very little traffic and we decided we'd been wise to come on a Tuesday to the third most visited National Park in the nation.
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| One of the first interesting sights along the road to the park was a bison herd. |
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| This fellow was the closest and we watched him break the ice in the pond to take a drink. |
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| The old-fashioned windmill there at the bison ranch was quite a change from the huge modern windmills by the hundreds we'd seen crossing the plains. |
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| We stopped inside the park to take a walk round this huge slope of open stone... |
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| ...you can get an idea of scale by noticing the tiny people in the background. |
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| By the time we got to this picturesque bridge we'd realized our impression of the day's crown from our eastern approach had been greatly mistaken. Many of the sites along the road had every possible parking spot taken. |
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| None of these photographs do justice to the immensity of the stone cliffs |
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