Goodbye Utah, Hello Arizona!

After our monster hike yesterday, we slept like babies last night, and slept in this morning. We got up, finished off our breakfast and packed up to leave the tiny house. We had an almost 4 hour drive ahead of us, with no particular plan for the day. Sounds like the perfect way to find something cool.

Utah towns are loaded with history! Most of the little towns were started as part of the Mormon church, and operated as communal towns. Some didn’t even exchange money. You earned credits for work and then had debits for things needed. As we traveled I researched the towns. Mike and I thought it was interesting. The boys, well, did not.

The views continued to amaze us. And we have noticed that all the mountains have initials or first letters of the towns on the hillside. After some research, we learned this are called Mountain Monograms in and around Utah. This is Kanab, Utah.

Here’s our cool stop today, Kanab, Utah… also known as Little Hollywood. Before we get to Little Hollywood, let’s talk about lunch. We stopped initially at a drug store/soda fountain type place, but when no one greeted or acknowledged us when we entered, it seemed odd, and then as we got to the counter, the sliced turkey for sandwiches was sitting uncovered on the counter. Um, yea, no thank you.

So off we went in search of lunch… and then we found it – Big Al’s! They explained that they don’t start cooking your order until you order so it takes a bit, and they really didn’t want you to stand around the counter waiting…

Hahaha 🤣 – seriously, that’s hilarious! But wait, check this one they had up as well:

So we went outside and waited, and killed some time playing Go Fishthen the food and milkshakes arrived – no more cards. Yum! This lunch was delicious!

With our bellies full, we set off to find “Little Hollywood,”. Old westerns movies were filmed here in Kanab , including The Outlaw Josey Wales. A 501(c) corporation runs Little Hollywood and have set up an old western town with sets from old westerns. (It’s probably a front for the mob but whatever, it was fun to see)Now when I say this place is kitschy, I mean serious Clark Griswold kitschy 🤣😂🤣But the surprising this was that Michael and Leo loved it! they pretended to be deaddrove a fake horse and wagonwere the jailer/went to jailand had a high noon showdownTotally cheesy and totally fun! It was starting to get really warm again, so we headed on to Page, Az And then we saw the state lineWe couldn’t figure out what was going on with our clocks. Suddenly the car clock and our phones were an hour different. The we realized that Arizona doesn’t recognize daylight savings time so we gained an hour from Utah.

And then guess what we saw: Another Dam – The Glen Canyon Dam! The boys were so excited about another Dam Tour

But then they remembered the Dam puns, and then they were all about the Dam Tour 🤣🤣🤣

Here’s a Dam picturehere’s a Dam little boy who reminded us of our cousin Rhett. Boys played this game about Dam trivia for about 30 minutes Here’s some Dam family pictures 🤪❤️

and here’s the Dam kid area

Hahaha! And now we’re done with the Dam puns🤪

We went to the pool before dinner to burn off some energy. I’m not sure what this game is, but had something to do with trying to pull each other off the rail?Who knows, but whatever. They were calmer than when they started.

For dinner, we headed out for Navajo taco’s – everyone who has been to this section of the county says we have to try a Navajo taco, so tonight we did…at Steer 89 in Page, Arizona

Wow! These things are amazing! Basically, it is a HUGE TACO served on this freshly baked flakey bread.Look at these 3 after finishing their 1st Navajo tacos