Yesterday we
caught up on NASCAR races and laundry.
Even managed to work in a haircut for Greg between races.
Today we
decided to do a short tour of the town we will be calling home for the rest of
the week.
It was a
little hard to get me motivated this morning, this is the view from my
recliner.
Kanab is a
nice, well-kept town, several hotels and restaurants, a couple of local
groceries – no big box stores anywhere around.
Before we
left the coach we decided to try the Kanab Creek Bakery for lunch, their, ad
looked good. It turned out to be kind of
a surprise, they have 5 parking spots and one of those is for handicapped
parking. There is no table service, you
go to the counter to order your food, get a number, pick a table outside and
they bring your food to you. If you are
new and don’t know where the menus are until you are already in line there is
some pressure to pick quick because others are in line behind you. We both picked the pastrami sandwich on
country bread because it was something we recognized and it was the first thing
on the menu. Greg thought a dish he saw
being carried out looked appetizing until he found out it had rabbit and
rattlesnake sausage on it. One of the
owners here is from Belgium and the menu leans toward traditional European
food, some prepared in wood fired ovens.
The pastries looked particularly inviting.
There is a
small patio for enjoying your meal.
As it turned
out the pastrami sandwich was a great choice but we should have just ordered
one, they were enormous – looks like we will be having the same thing for
supper. I tried one of their Italian
Organic Sodas. I thought it was good,
Greg turned up his nose after tasting it.
We did
weaken and have madeleines for desert.
We were thinking of you Maddie!!
The Levi
Stewart Memorial was just across the street so we stopped for a short walk. This is the site where Fort Kanab was
established to protect early settlers from Indian raids.
Levi Stewart
brought the first party of Mormon pioneers to Fort Kanab to form a permanent
settlement on June 14, 1870. Just 6
months later on December 14, 1870 his wife and five sons perished in a fire at
the Fort.
One of
several fountains on the site.
Scenery in
the area.
We went to
the Kane County Office of Tourism to gather some more information on local
spots for taking in scenery without getting into some of the tougher off road
areas. Some of the information we had
read noted slick rocks and deep sand, we don’t really feel we are ready for
either of those. We also aren’t ready
for long hikes, rappelling down canyon sides and crossing rivers. They were able to recommend a couple of
places we could go and still stay out of trouble. That will be for later in the week.
Downtown
area is pretty.
I liked the
old signs on the local drug store.
We ate at
Houston’s yesterday for lunch. Greg had
a club sandwich and I had a chicken ranch wrap.
Both were good and were generous enough to cover supper too.
Kanab is
known as “Little Hollywood”. Especially
when westerns were popular on television many movies and television series were
shot here. Among the stars were Maureen
O’Hara and Fess Parker of “Daniel Boone”.
When the
stars were in town they stayed at the Parry Lodge.
We stopped
for a walk through Denny’s Wigwam. The
sell western gifts, jewelry and ice cream.
All of the tour buses stop here.
It also has a lot of western memorabilia. One of the pieces that caught my eye was this
saddle which had a letter of authenticity above it saying that it formerly
belonged to Robert Leroy Parker who was born in 1866 in Beaver, Utah. Parker was raised on a ranch about 45 miles
north of Hatch, Utah. We Know Parker as
Butch Cassidy.
Greg found a
new friend when we stopped for a break in the shade. Temperatures were in the high 80’s to low 90’s
here today.
Across the
street from our resting bench is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day
Saints church in Kanab.
Next door is
a Family History Center we will be visiting later in the week.
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