In Kayenta, a small town on the road to / back from the valley, the tender of the Burger King is the son of a former "wind talker", the Indians who helped encoding the messages furing World War 2, based upon their language. He has dedicated a small museum to his father.
Page, upon the banks of Lake Powell, offers a very strange welcome: a belt of churches, all of them erected in the same street, you just need to pick up the one you prefer... Unfortunately, it is not possible to visit the Glen Canyon Dam at the moment, but even from the outside, it is very impressive.
So many people back from the US had told me that Bryce was their favorite park, that I was really looking forward to seeing it. And when you stand in front of the amphitheater, it is easy to understand what they meant. The pictures can only give a very fade idea of the shapes and the colours. You can stay all day long at the same place and just watch the change of colours depending on the height of the sun of on the clouds.
Or you can also go for a walk, and enjoy all the animals which get very close to tourists (chipmunks, different kinds of birds, fawns...).
Unfortunately, half of the park is closed at the moment, because of a forest fire that they have been fighting since June 14th (!).
Not far away from Bryce, Zion is also a geologist paradise. I should have payed more attention to my geology lessons 20 years ago, may be I would understand what I see today...
After a short break in St George, to see the second holy Mormon temple in Utah, it is Nevada again. Tonight will be less productive in Mesquite than a few days ago in Laughlin : in the casino, I am going to lose the 50 cents I had won then ;)
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