Day 5 - Hurricane warnings

Price, UT to Hurricane, UT  274 Miles
September 5, 2012

Pulled out by 7:30am on UT10 through Huntington, Castle Dale, connecting with I-70 just east of Fremont Junction.  It's a beautiful ride on the high desert just skirting the mountains.

 





The terrain is gorgeous.










I normally have a significant aversion to "slab" (interstate highway).  But one can make an exception for I-70 from where UT10 joins it until it become I-15.  An example is below.

 Pulled into Hurricane about 1:00pm and Bob met me downtown and I followed him back to his home below Pine Mountain, the defining point in this area.  Zelda joined us a little later and we went into Springdale for an early dinner of great southwestern cuisine.  That stuff is way up on my food radar, and around here they do it well.

 A little scenery on the way into Springdale.
Springdale is the gateway to Zion National Park.

Enough yet?  No...okay.











 A little more.  An this is outside the park, huh?








We drove down this lonely, unpaved road to the ghost town of Grafton, UT.  Some of it is familiar to most.

This is the spot where Paul Neuman and Katharine Ross were riding the bicycle as B.J. Thomas sang 'Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head.'

Grafton Cemetery

M. Isabelle Hales, killed by Indians April 2, 1866.  She was twenty-two at the time.

Also dying that day, and in the grave opposite her head was Joseph S. Berry.  He was twenty-three.

Has to be a love story here.

This grave is also marked.  I have absolutely no idea what this means, or who, or what, is in the grave.