Hello from Evergreen, CO
Thursday Morning — September 10, 2015 (Second post of this travelogue)
I decided that I want to document a few more items from my trip to Page, AZ
My hotel in Page was the Best Western View of Lake Powell (there are two Best Westerns adjacent to each other). Here is a map of the hotel location. If you zoom out a bit, you will see how close the hotel is to the Glenn Canyon Dam.
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I have not been a big fan of Best Western hotels, but this one was excellent. As I noted in the first travelogue post, I had a view of the dam from my room. The room was a handicap room which is often better suited to our needs (e.g. shower rather than a tub). The room was well equipped and the furniture was quite modern. I had been told that the hotel was recently remodeled.
The class had 9 attendees on Monday, but on Tuesday one of the three generators went down and they called three of the students out for the rest of the class to work on the repair. This is still the peak demand period and they needed to get the generator on line as quickly as possible. When I left Thursday, late afternoon, the generator was still down.
Thursday, after class, I drove to Cortez – a bit over 200 miles. Arizona does not go on daylight savings time, so I lost an hour of sunlight. Even though the last hour of driving was in the dark, it was not bad. I stayed at the Holiday Inn Express. Friday I drove to Evergreen via Durango and US 285.
Both of the stays during the drive (Moab and Cortex) were at Holiday Inn Expresses and both were in the $150 range. Both towns are tourist towns and the hotels charge accordingly.
The driving trip was through some of the most beautiful scenery in this country. I have told Pat that I want to duplicate this trip when she can go. There were other things that made the drive enjoyable. I had rented a standard car, but they upgraded me to a Jeep Cherokee. That was a fun car to drive. It had a USB plug which made it easy to connect my phone and listen to my music. Over the past several years I have honed my music library – and now have nearly 700 songs. Recently I have concentrated on classical jazz and jazz guitar – great listening.
That is all for this trip.