Utah, Glendale - Saturday, April 29, 2016 - Bauers Canyon Ranch RV Park

We’ve decided to stay here in Glendale for another week, we’ll be leaving next Friday.  Since we had one nice day to visit Zion National Park we’ve seen nothing but rain, cold with strong chance of rain or snow.

As I said in my last post we got here about a week ahead of decent weather.  We knew going north was going to be out of the question so we looked at moving east.  But since the bad weather was moving east that didn’t make too much sense.  We decided to stay here and wait on better weather to catch up with us.  About 3 days next week look like they will be decent to get to Zion again and then over to Bryce Canyon. 

We did get out one morning and make a run into the next small town.  They have a small mom and pop grocery that carries some decent produce.  Getting produce is our only problem right now.  With the diet we are on we go through a lot of it.  When we started this we decided that fresh vegetables were going to be a free food – didn’t count for calories or sodium.  When we buy produce I wash it as soon as we get home so it is ready to consume for a quick snack.  Cauliflower is our number one pick.  Right now I am at .4 of a pound from hitting the 40 pounds gone mark.  Greg has hit a plateau at 37 pounds gone, but he is sticking with the plan.

We need to find a way to exercise when we are forced to stay inside.  We have a small weight set with us – need to drag it out and make use of it.  We’ve hesitated to get Greg into too much strength training until we see the pacemaker doctor to make sure it is healed as it should be, don’t want to take a chance on pulling any wires loose.

I have made use of this time inside to experiment with some more low calorie/low sodium recipes.  I’ve added shrimp scampi, shrimp stuffed mushrooms, Mexican shredded beef, Spinach Dip and Pizza to our go to recipes.  The pizza was the hardest because my hand mixer doesn’t do dough well so there was a lot of kneading involved (exercise!!).  I found a no sodium pizza crust recipe to go along with the homemade sausage and pizza sauce recipes I have had for a while (I have used them to make pizza in portabella mushroom caps).  I thought the crust would be like cardboard but it was amazingly good.  It freezes well also. 

Utah, Glendale - Friday, April 22, 2016 - Bauer's Canyon Ranch RV Park

I wonder if I call the number on the sign I can tell them that their sign placement could have been better?

We are leaving the area of white mountains.

Getting into red mountains.

We took US 89 from Wahweap Campground all the way to Bauer’s Canyon.  The road was good and the weather is sunny and warm.

Scenery on the way here was gorgeous.

I need to find out what theses bushes are, they are everywhere.

The road did have a few steep grades and lots of curves.

Bauer’s Canyon Ranch RV Park is a lot different than Wahweap, no scenic walks going to happen here.  It’s a nice country campground with level pull through sites, full hook ups with 50 amp service that is strong and the TV was able to lock onto all three satellites.  It’s within easy riding distance from several things we want to see so it will work out well.  Phone service is a little spotty here but the wifi for the campground seems to be working pretty good.

I just won’t be posting any pictures of beautiful scenery I can see from the recliner.

This is the view from behind the park.

We walked through the town of Glendale on Main Street this afternoon.  They have a post office – that’s it, the walk didn’t take long.  The wind is gusting pretty strong this afternoon and will probably be the same tomorrow.  We are planning to get out on the bike on Sunday.

There are signs of spring popping up all over.

Today’s wildlife picture.

Right now it looks like our plans to go on north to Yellowstone from here might have to be put on hold until another trip through.  There is supposed to be a mix of snow and rain falling here Friday when we get ready to leave and further north they are supposed to be getting more snow and temperatures into the low 20’s at night.  We are considering moving east and going through Colorado to end up in Kansas with David and the kids for a while.