Day 12- Hurricane, UT to Williams, AZ

After the handlers' experiences in the Subway (which I will leave to Handler 2 to relate to you, as he seems so keen on never letting go of it) they decided to depart from the Zion area post-haste before it finished its threat to kill them.

We followed the Highlander on the quickest route to Arizona (which sadly, required going through the park once again).


We passed some lovely scenery of course.

And finally were free of Zion and its evil influence!

We made a quick side trip to the Coral Pink Sand Dunes state park.

The dunes were not quite as pink as we expected.

After that we skirted Grand Staircase Escalante and the Vermillion Cliffs before crossing over into Arizona. This required us to go over a high bridge over the Colorado river. Here, Handler 2's chicken gene took over and he had Handler 1 drive over the bridge for him. We passed by Lake Powell as well. So strange to see boat yards in the middle of the desert.

We stopped briefly in Page, AZ to gas up and, unfortunately, found no strange things afoot at the Circle K.

Just outside of Page is the picturesque horseshoe bend and we stopped to take some photos.

Before continuing on to...

It was fairly late in the afternoon when we finally made it to the canyon, so we were only able to get in a few sunset pics.

We had dinner that evening in the El Tovar dining room which turned out to be the nicest place we ate at, with great service, and so-so food. However, we found something interesting. Arizona does not follow daylight savings time. As such, even though we had just traveled from West of where we were eating, our clocks were an hour too fast. We ended up waiting an extra hour for our dinner and had drinks and appetizers (which included the world's largest fried calimari) in the lounge beforehand.

We also learned it might be hard to get rooms in the area. We figured this from the confused look the maitre d' gave us after he asked where we were staying and we told him we didn't have plans for that yet. However, we did manage to find a good room at the Super 8 in Williams, not too far away.