Day 3 - Coral Pink Sand Dunes
A more mellow day today.
After breakfast, we went to look at a house from the series Gunsmoke that was right down the road from ours. Then we went to see movie set buildings that were saved from some of the Westerns that were filmed near Kanab. The highlight for me were some structures from The Outlaw Josie Wales, which I had watched on the plane on the wayu out.
After breakfast, we went to look at a house from the series Gunsmoke that was right down the road from ours. Then we went to see movie set buildings that were saved from some of the Westerns that were filmed near Kanab. The highlight for me were some structures from The Outlaw Josie Wales, which I had watched on the plane on the wayu out.
After that, Jill drove us up to Coral Pink Sand Dunes. I asked the Ranger what had changed in the 40 years since I had been there. He had no idea, and he wasn’t even 40 years old.
The park is small and in the middle of nowhere, down an unused old road about 10 miles. What has changed is that in the last 40 years they have turned it into an ATV park, 1200 acres of it anyway. They reserved 200 acres to preserve a beetle, though. Cool looking, but a long way to go for a picnic lunch at a nice campground.
Stopped at Moqui cave on the way back, bought 3 flavors of beef jerkey in the parking lot that are pretty good. The cave had been a speakeasy during Prohibition, with all sorts of fights and general drunkenness, run by a polygamist with 55 kids. Must’ve been a helluva place. The girls checked it out and K bought a snow globe.
Back home. Before dinner, we drove around the Kanab Walking Tour of old houses, then it was dinner at the Rocking V Cafe, run by a guy formerly from Matawan, NJ. Nice fare, and we ate a lot for our $100; smoked trout, mozzarella and tomatoes, curry veg soup, tomato basil soup, shrimp curry, southwest salad, chicken Escalante. Nice service and friendly people. It’s the one place in Kanab for gourmet food.
The park is small and in the middle of nowhere, down an unused old road about 10 miles. What has changed is that in the last 40 years they have turned it into an ATV park, 1200 acres of it anyway. They reserved 200 acres to preserve a beetle, though. Cool looking, but a long way to go for a picnic lunch at a nice campground.
Stopped at Moqui cave on the way back, bought 3 flavors of beef jerkey in the parking lot that are pretty good. The cave had been a speakeasy during Prohibition, with all sorts of fights and general drunkenness, run by a polygamist with 55 kids. Must’ve been a helluva place. The girls checked it out and K bought a snow globe.
Back home. Before dinner, we drove around the Kanab Walking Tour of old houses, then it was dinner at the Rocking V Cafe, run by a guy formerly from Matawan, NJ. Nice fare, and we ate a lot for our $100; smoked trout, mozzarella and tomatoes, curry veg soup, tomato basil soup, shrimp curry, southwest salad, chicken Escalante. Nice service and friendly people. It’s the one place in Kanab for gourmet food.
