Kaibabträume

Leaving Flagstaff on Thursday, I ventured farther north into Northern Arizona and the aforementioned dead area for my phone. Contrasting with last year was my car’s air conditioning choosing to work on this day along the Arizona Strip. I was going to try US 89 and see Page, Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell for the first time, but ample road construction had me at a standstill for 10 minutes so I finally u-turned over to 89A and resumed my preferred route up past the Vermilion Cliffs and up the Kaibab Plateau. I love the cliffs, but the much cooler temperatures of the higher-elevated plateau are my favorite part of 89A, especially in the vicinity of Jacob Lake. Here’s a video I took at the transition point between elevations.

Spent the rest of the day in Kanab, Utah and stopped for the night at Aiken’s Lodge, of all places. The next day began with a return trip to Pipe Spring National Monument in the Kaibab Paiute Nation and I ended up in St. George, Utah. I found a sixer of IPA from the local Zion Canyon Brewery at a gas station and later that evening drove all over Washington County (successfully) looking for more. The going-out would actually slow down over the weekend, as I was in Las Vegas but tired and sedentary staying at my brother’s house. Watching the Olympics insipred me to work myself over in his pool, but desert sun my ass. No tan to show for it.