Riding at Mount Carmel Junction and through the Virgin River

Church service missions are note like full-time missions, you can get some time off once in a while.  We changed the 'council's' schedule so that every third week we have the week off.  Well, Rich Poll called and he was taking about 10 couples riding at Mount Carmel Junction the exact week we were off at the Center.  Yea, a little get-away.

We pulled the trailer and RZR over to Mount Carmel Junction, just a few miles from Kanab and right at the entrance to Zions and spend four glorious days riding, camping, walking and eating.  We would ride for 4-6 hours each day and travel across the Virgin River about 20 or so times.  One night, the owner of Mount Carmel Junction Hotel and Restaurant took us on a guided tour of some slot canyons, the beauty of these is incredible.

Two days after we got there, we received a phone call from Adrian.  She was returning from a cruise with Ali and Demaree and said she was planning to stay in our house and Todd was driving down.  This prompted us to talk with Rich, who was teaching the owner of Mount Carmel businesses, who had just started a Polaris ATV rental business, how to rent the machines and Polaris was comping machines for our group, to get a comped RZR for Adrian and Todd.  It was a go and so they came over and rode with us for two days.  What fun.  Todd smiled the whole time, he was convinced that they needed to buy one of these -- we hope they will in the near future.

It is so fun to be out in this southern Utah country.  I love it each day I wake up.  What an incredible time!