Utah Road Trip

 WiFi will be non-existent for the next week, so I am posting a couple of our excursions while we still have service.

We had 5 counties we wanted to find geocaches in during our Utah visit of several days. These photos are of a one day road trip, about 325 miles through the 4 counties.

We stayed in Cedar City while the cold front moved into the state. The area avoided measurable snowfall, but did not avoid the extreme temps. The truck showed 17º when we left at 8 AM, but as we climbed in elevation, this was the lowest temp. (Temps did improve to 'normal' in 48 hours.)

Hwy. 14 was narrow, icy in spots, winding, and surprising had more traffic than I would have expected for about a 2000' elevation gain. Pretty scenery though.

a change in the terrain

And again, an unexpected historical find. I convinced Hubby to stop so I could take photos. There was a puzzle geocache at the homestead, so he solved a puzzle and I was happy to wander around with my camera.

house and barn and other visitors

his home at age 14 to 18

some of the info signage

some info on Butch Cassidy & this site

a two room house that would have had a loft or upstairs

the kitchen area

dresser in the bedroom area

the barn

small pens either side of the door with a divider separating the back half

we did score the cache find

this gal did not move as we drove by on the way to a 

one 'unknown grave' cemetery

snow on the mountains in the distance, farther north

some colorful leaves on the trees

a pasture with sheep

and a resting black llama keeping watch

(llamas are very good guard animals)

I also saw a corral with some horses and a camel. Yes, a camel. A dromedary. This certainly isn't typical camel habitat. We thought the reason for the camel might be for Christmas pageants??? And of course, there is no photo, because by when my eyes and brain made the connection, we were well passed the unusual sight. He didn't think it was worthy of slamming on the brakes or turning around.

We drove through a number of small villages. This one room school is no longer used, but is well preserved. A larger neighboring community appeared to have a school with boarding facilities, maybe a high school only? We weren't certain. We saw unused school buildings in most of the villages.