What a Ride and We Weren't in a Raft!!

Sunday
July 20, 2014


We got up early and found the Krispy Kreme in the Excalibur and had breakfast. Then George and I bid Caroline goodbye. She is flying home today and we're heading on.

George had us a rafting adventure planned today in Marysvale, UT. Just a hop, skip, and a long jump from Las Vegas. We headed out around 7:30 AM. It was a long ride. We enjoyed it though. We are beginning to see a little more green vegetation. Farmers are certainly irrigating.

As we enter the Colorado Plateau  we are seeing the beautiful mountains with red colorization in them. George said it was a high iron content. I know these mountain ridges are connected in some way with Zion and Bryce which also has that beautiful red hue.

We are driving and not dawdling around as we have many miles to go to get to Marysvale. I-15 speed limit is 80!  We took full advantage of every little mph. My phone GPS has us arriving at the rafting area at 12:56. We are supposed to leave for rafting at 1:00. We followed the directions and were swinging around some curves. Lo and behold, the navigation system takes us to the middle of town and leaves us in the middle of a street. We call the rafting guide and we are 5 minutes out so, off we go again. I am the whole time thinking that there are several rafts full of people waiting for the slowpokes to get there. HA. When we finally arrived, there were 3 other people waiting. There was a grand total of 5 going on the trip.

The raft trip was fun. We went down the river which had class 2/3 rapids out of 8. We had a grand time, no one fell out, and we all got wet, just what the pamphlet guarantees.

We arrived in Salt Lake City tonight around 8:00 PM. There was the most beautiful rainbow over the city. You could see every single bit of ROY G BIV. Tomorrow we have a tour of the city.