We’ve just hiked our way to the top of a plateau known as Upper Table Rock and the view is breathtaking!  It’s so quiet I can hear my heart pounding as it settles back into a normal rhythm after our ascent.  The dark gray rain-filled clouds are hovering and ready to burst.  The air is cool while the birds soar in silent flight.

Allen Saunders: Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.
—Publishers Syndicate

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

— John Muir

In my last post I told you about the benefits a traveler can find by checking into a B&B.  I thought I’d turn the page and tell you what the average day of an innkeeper is like.  Although I’d be happy (kind of) if it did, the daily routine of this innkeeper does not include eating M&M’s and watching television.

It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want –

oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want,

but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!

-Mark Twain

 I have been nominated for a Super Sweet Blogging Award and I must confess I have never heard of said award but that doesn’t mean I wasn’t super pleased to have been nominated by Natasha at Tasha’s Travel Troves.  Tasha has a powerful story, one that should be read and admired. So, thank you Natasha!

You know that feeling of “been there, done that” but you can’t quite place your finger on it? As I was formatting this post I kept thinking, “Have I already said this?”  Turns out, I have.  The original draft was still sitting in my file folder. Forgetting that I had actually published it on the blog months ago, I was giddy at finding it; a little like finding a dollar on the sidewalk! 

It’s been nearly a month since we found ourselves in Zion Canyon National Park.  Scary how fast time moves us forward, isn’t it?

When we were visiting Zion and Bryce Canyon National Parks, we stayed at a wonderful hotel, The Desert Pearl, in Springdale, Utah.  Between the back of the hotel property and the cliffs of Zion, there was a small neighborhood of homes.  Talk about a back yard view!