Provo and Cedar Breaks

After a few days of travel, we arrived in Provo for a week. Lots to do as w wind down our trip. Plans are mostly the usual but we found a Les Schwab across the street from us. They are known for their tires so we went over and they had tires for the MH. We asked that they get them in but we had the right of refusal based on the manufacture date. Mh tires don't turnover as fast as passenger car tires so you need to watch out for their manufacture date. We had excellent dates so we brought MH in and had new tires on the fronts in a couple of hours. They couldn't do an alignment so we will schedule that for when we get back to AZ.

Next was the car, that needed tires all around so the car went in the next day. Les Schwab was able to do an alignment on the car so that is finished. Our week in Provo is revolving around tires.

The next crises was our vacuum cleaner died. Finally found the model we wanted at a Walmart 10 miles away.  Another trip out. This was how our week continued. This was a good break at the end of the trip.

From Provo, we drove to Cedar Breaks, a miniature Bryce at 11,000 feet. This is a small park and has few visitors, much less crowded than Bryce.

As we approached our campground we started seeing and smelling smoke. Of course, a forest fire. The fire was in a canyon south of the campground and north of the park. The wind was blowing NE so all was well

This campground is a Dark Sky campground. If you have never seen the stars when in an area without any lights it is a mind boggling experience. So many stars, har do imagine. I wish thre was an easy way to take pictures of the stars. I just feel so minuscule when I see all these stars.

The next day we drove over the Cedar Breaks. This was an interesting diversion. The usual animals encountered: Turkey, a few sheep, and deer. The morning temperature was 19 degrees and a 30 mph wind. We are at 7500'. Time for goose down coats since we are going p to 11,000 feet.

Then we rounded a corner and saw a herd of sheep with a rancher. We didn't think much about it and slowed down. We noticed a "sheep" sitting on the road and slowed down some more. This was not a sheep, but a dog guarding the sheep herd. till didn't think about it too much. Until the dog started becoming aggressive toward the car. We would stop, dog happy. We would creep, dog unhappy. We finally figured out the dog was trying to herd us away from the sheep. I would have been happy to oblige but I had no place to go other on the road. I have never ben herded by a dog before.

Once past the sheep, wandered through the caldera of an old volcano. This was so different. The amount of lava strewn about was unimaginable, went on for miles and miles.

And then more sheep!!!!