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\n\tFriday we travelled from Torrey, UT to Cedar City,UT. <\/span>Our route took us over the famous “Southern Utah Scenic Byway 12” (link to information and pictures)<\/a>. <\/span>We traveled this route in 2013 but the opposite direction. <\/span>Going from east to west seemed quite different from the other direction. <\/span>Either way is an amazing drive. <\/span>At one point you are on the spine of the rock formation and there are steep cliffs on both sides of the road (see picture).\n<\/p>\n \n\t \n\tTowards the west end of highway 12 we drove into Bryce Canyon National Park. <\/span>While we have seen this park several times, it never fails to amaze us with the incredible views. <\/span>I am posting a couple of <\/span>pictures of Bryce Canyon, but they don’t begin to do justice to the splendor of the canyon.\n<\/p>\n \n\t \n\t \n<\/p>\n \n\t \n\t \n<\/p>\n \n\t \n\tAfter touring the park, we drove to Cedar City for the night. <\/span>It turns out that we had to adjust our itinerary a bit because several Holiday Inns were booked up.\n<\/p>\n \n\tFrom Cedar City we made a fairly short drive to Mesquite, NV and stayed in a beautiful Holiday Inn with a room that had a balcony which overlooked the pool as well as the whole valley. <\/span>Pat was able to spend a couple of afternoons playing the slots, while I did some computer projects. <\/span>\n<\/p>\n \n\tToday we drove from Mesquite to Pahrump. <\/span>We are using this location to make some day trips into an area we fell in love with several years ago. <\/span>Our first trip to the area was during our inaugural trip in the Bus (2006). <\/span>A few years ago I uploaded what was then an email blog to our blog\/travelogue. <\/span>Two of the posts from that travelogue will give you background as to how we discovered the area and why we loved it so much: <\/span>(2006 Inaugural Bus Trip post 5)<\/a> and (2006 Inaugural Bus Trip post 6)<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n \n\tTo summarize those two posts we found the tiny town of Shoshone, CA from a book that we carried which listed all of the hot springs in the south west. <\/span>That led us to a small campground that was pretty bare bones, but just right for us to “hide out” and relax. <\/span>From there we ventured into Death Valley. <\/span>We would never have chosen to tour that area, but once we did, we were blasted away by the amazing diversity of scenic wonders that the park has to offer. <\/span>We subsequently went back to the area a couple of more times over the year.\n<\/p>\n \n\tWe had hoped to stay in Shoshone but the one motel is very basic, yet charges a fortune for the rooms. <\/span>If we had the bus with us we would have stayed in the campground. <\/span>The other issue <\/span>is that there is no cell service in the area. <\/span>In the past we would drive to Pahrump to make our calls (about 30 miles).\n<\/p>\n \n\tWe will describe our re-visit to the area in the next post or two.\n<\/p>\n \n\tThat is all for this post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hello from Pahrump, NV Monday evening – November 11, 2019 (Second post of this travelogue) We are at the Holiday Inn Express in Pahrump (link to Google map) {google_map}36.207985, -115.981095{\/google_map} Friday we travelled from Torrey, UT to Cedar City,UT. Our … Continue reading ![\"Highway](\"http:\/\/beltguy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Highway-12-Medium-225x300.jpg\")
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