First Day In Page

25 September 2014

Weather: Sunny and at least 29C.

This morning we had a good sleep in at the Golden Nugget because check-out wasn't until 11:00am.  We didn't stay that long because we had an almost 5 hour drive ahead of us.  We headed out of Las Vegas following the directions of the Hertz Neverlost System and were not sure which way it was taking us.  We stopped at a gas station (I know we call them a service stations), to see if we could but a map but none of them were printed very clearly or covered the area we wanted.  We did manage to work out that it was sending us the right direction.  

On the road from Las Vegas to Page

Arizona sign

At first we followed the signs to Salt Lake City.  The drive was spectacular, passing through the Virgin River Gorge and through a number of National Parks with amazingly barren mountains of interesting shapes and colours.  

Justin and I at the Virgin River Gorge

We stopped in St George, Utah looking for some lunch and followed the signs to the Visitor Information Centre which was in a temporary location within the Rosenbruch World Wildlife Museum which is worth a visit.  I picked up a map and brochure on the Kane Country, it showed the route the Neverlost system was taking us.

Me with the Utah sign at St George

We drove onto Hurricane where we stopped for Taco Bell.  We had tacos and a wrap, which tasted alright to me.  We also had a nice cold cordial which was yumberry and pomegranate.  

Justin drove us out of Hurricane and then I had ago of driving on the wrong side of the road for the first time.  I drove for an hour to Kanab where we filled the Dodge up with gas (fuel) and then Justin drove to Page.

Before reaching Fredonia

Justin relaxing on the side of the road before we reached Page.

I thought we had a night tour booking of Antelope Canyon where we had to meet the guide at 8:30pm so we checked into the Holiday Inn Express Page which had changed its name to Clarion Inn Page.

Our room at the Clarion Inn Page

After checking in we walked across the road to Big John's Texas Barbeque for some dinner.  We weren't a fan of the flavour, I had the chicken nachos but it was nothing like nachos as I know it. Justin had the sampler with ribs, beans, potato salad, sausage, pulled pork and bread.

The sampler at Big John's Texas Barbeque

After dinner Justin drove us out to the meeting point for the night tour but they had already left for the night.  We weren't late and we waited 40 minutes but still no-one turned up.  It turned out the guide had that our tour was the following night which was fine as we had two nights in Page.