The Painted Desert Loop: Day 6, the last leg
The above picture petty well sums up our last day on the road. It wasn't actually snowing much but there had been a good snowfall over night. Highway 89 is called the highway of the national parks, and it does take you near or through the parks from Grand Canyon to Glacier. We have visited Grand Canyon, Zion and Bryce and the snowy roads made those side trips unattractive. The purpose of our trip was to explore some less frequently visited sites, not the most crowded, so we followed the urge to get home quickly. It was encouraging to see so much snow accumulation. Central Utah, like much of the west, has been suffering from drought and it looks like they may get some relief this summer. Maybe the biggest surprise of the trip happened when we drove by our old hometown of Sigurd where we lived from 1997 to 2013. In the early 2000's a company was issued permits to build a coal-fired power plant there. It was never built, due to a combination of impracticality and local oppositio