{"id":37,"date":"2013-08-28T03:25:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T03:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beltguy.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/28\/hello-from-zion-national-park-uta\/"},"modified":"2013-08-28T03:25:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T03:25:00","slug":"hello-from-zion-national-park-uta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beltguy.com\/Travelogue\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"Hello from Zion National Park, Utah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello from Zion National Park, Utah<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday evening August 27,&nbsp; 2013&nbsp;&nbsp; (Fifth travelogue of this trip).<\/p>\n<p>Today, we toured Zion National Park and tonight we are staying at the Zion Lodge in the Park <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/?t=h&amp;q=37.249020,-112.956683(Shepherd)\">(map)<\/a>.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>In researching the area, we ran across a great guide on touring the area by car <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myscenicdrives.com\/drives\/utah\/zion-canyon-loop\">(link)<\/a>.&nbsp; We have some very good friends who full time in their bus and they really explore the areas they travel to and we live vicariously through their email \u201cblog\u201d.&nbsp; Today we felt like we would make them proud with our explorations (are you listening Stevi and Ed?).&nbsp; We will detail those travels in our next blog.<\/p>\n<p>Our main reason for this post is to show you our cabin at the Zion Lodge.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-hjpBrSzXe6s\/Uh1sDEaVMFI\/AAAAAAAAAjw\/wWg--TICFHI\/s1600\/Our+Cabin+at+the+Zion+Lodge+(Medium).JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-hjpBrSzXe6s\/Uh1sDEaVMFI\/AAAAAAAAAjw\/wWg--TICFHI\/s320\/Our+Cabin+at+the+Zion+Lodge+(Medium).JPG\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\nOur Cabin at Zion Lodge<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-bhI13Tf_dpc\/Uh1tMk_XIMI\/AAAAAAAAAj4\/EVZ9I68tE9o\/s1600\/View+from+our+front+porch+(Medium).JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-bhI13Tf_dpc\/Uh1tMk_XIMI\/AAAAAAAAAj4\/EVZ9I68tE9o\/s320\/View+from+our+front+porch+(Medium).JPG\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\nView From Our Front Porch<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>Tonight we sat on the porch and saw a deer wander by within 20 feet and two small foxes scamper through the parking lot in front of the cabin.&nbsp; We met one of the workers here who really studies each place he works.&nbsp; He said the main lodge burned down many years ago, but our cabin, and the ones surrounding it, were the original ones built sometime between 1927 and 1929.&nbsp; The feeling of being surrounded by the shear walls of the various kinds of rock and all of the beauty is beyond description.&nbsp; Indeed, the photos we have taken don&#8217;t begin to capture the beauty.<\/p>\n<p>It is getting late, and my pea brain has gone into overload trying to convey how neat this place is.<\/p>\n<p>That is all for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello from Zion National Park, Utah Tuesday evening August 27,&nbsp; 2013&nbsp;&nbsp; (Fifth travelogue of this trip). 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