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Old 05-15-2018, 11:58 PM   #1
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Working and experiencing Bryce Canyon and The Great Staircase, Utah

We are back for our second stint as convenience store clerks at the Sinclair gas station just outside Bryce Canyon National Park. It's a way to earn a bit of extra money and having full-hookups during some of the cold and hot days of spring and early summer. Working for minimum wages is a bearable trade-off when natural wonders are a hike or short drive away on our days off; stepping outside our Airstream and getting to view red and orange rock is a daily reminder we are outside of surburbia. We have only scratched the surface in exploring Bryce Canyon and nearby Grand Staircase but they have already scratched their names across my heart.
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Old 05-16-2018, 12:05 AM   #2
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Old 05-16-2018, 12:07 AM   #3
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What a great way to experience such awe-inspiring beauty. Thanks for sharing the pictures and video.

Working for minimum wage seems like a good trade off. If I could do it I would!

Enjoy!
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Old 05-16-2018, 05:30 AM   #5
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Gorgeous!

Have a great summer.

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Old 05-16-2018, 06:44 AM   #6
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Great work, Jeff! Thanks for sharing.
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What a great opportunity to see the beauty of our country. I would work for minimum wage as well. It is definitely a trade off. Love your pictures.
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Thanks all and thank you Sweetpea2. If one has a passive income along the way, then working minimum wage makes full-timing doable - making less money but living simply and spending less money still makes for good math.
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Fabulous! We look forward to visiting Bryce in the near future. Thanks for enticing us so thoroughly!
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Thanks for sharing. It was great bumping into you at the Sinclair for propane. It was nice to have lunch with you guys while we were at Bryce.

I was able to hike Faireyland loop twice, hiking both directions, from our North campground site.

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Kelvin, it was great for us to meet you and Cindy...and thank you again for the great lunch! I applaud you for hiking Fairyland twice and in both directions - I think hiking clockwise is even harder...and from your campground no less!!! Wow! I haven't done it in its entirety yet and have to work up to it but I should have opportunity to do so.

Meeting you two makes our replies that much better moving on. We hope to cross paths again. Hamburgers and hotdogs always sound good to me! Say hi to "Celsius" for us!
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Old 05-17-2018, 06:38 PM   #12
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Working and experiencing Bryce Canyon and The Great Staircase, Utah

Nice! Thanks for sharing. Hope to make it down there this summer and hopefully say hello. I enjoy the Fairyland loop trail - pretty taxing (feeling my age) but very scenic. Hope they have the drinking water quality situation down there under control.

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Old 05-19-2018, 01:59 PM   #13
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Thanks for sharing your beautiful photos. Bryce Canyon is the most beautiful of the parks in my opinion. We spent 5 weeks touring all the NPs last year and absolutely loved it and can't wait to go back. There is so much to see and do. Utah is extraordinary place. We really enjoyed our visit. Well worth minimum wage when you are surrounded by such beauty. Enjoy!
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I get to walk on this dirt road just outside our trailer every day before work. I am reminded of a sentiment put forth in the documentary 180 Degrees South. I admit this is a bit self-congratulatory and also realize I am unbelievably blessed to have received the opportunity to act upon it...but it's always been there inside since I was a boy.

"How can people who are trapped in the city try to create a more ecologically minded world if you don't know that it's possible. A good example of how people become closed off from their ecosystems is with their Walkmen or iPods. So you start to further close yourself off. You don't want to breathe the dirty air, you don't want to hear because it's annoying, you don't want to look because it's ugly. That is why we don't understand nature, love it or take care of it. We don't realize that we depend on it psychologically and physically 100%." - Juan Pablo Orrego, environmentalist, Chile
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Old 06-18-2018, 01:20 AM   #15
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The dream for me is to become a backpacker. I'm still working out the kinks: testing out equipment and most of all, trying to convince the wife to go along with me. Getting down the eating and sleeping parts were successful but we'll have to work on the carrying/hiking part.

We ventured back out into the Dixie National Forest and Boulder Mountain off Scenic Byway 12. Before presenting my first Mountain House dinner to Coffee, I treated her to lunch at Burr Trail Grill, located at the intersection of Burr Trail and Highway 12. They have the best tasting hamburger we've ever eaten - local and grass-fed; you can taste the difference.

I hadn't set up our Half Dome 2 tent in almost a year but its design is so superior, even a city slicker like me could set it up. Coffee hammered in the stakes while I fired up our cheapo Chinese camp stove - it fired up like a champ and we had dinner in the darkness. The last time Coffee and I slept in a tent was back in summer of 2014 before hitting the road full-time. Back then when we looked up, there was nothing in the stars that offered an inkling of trailer life on the road...but they have been kind to us. We felt like kids again.
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Old 06-18-2018, 01:29 AM   #16
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We took a detour from coming down off Boulder Mountain and took Burr Trail Road to check out its switchbacks. This is the incredible breadth in topography in and around the Staircase. The Burr Trail was carved out 20 to 100 feet at a time back in the late 1800s to drive cattle from the town of Boulder down to the Colorado River. The incredible route is testament to the wonder of geology and the stubbornness and grit of man.
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Old 06-18-2018, 01:49 AM   #17
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We drove up and camped above Escalante in the Dixie National Forest and then drove up Hell's Backbone Road. I work with a young relative of the man who volunteered to pull a compressor with a bulldozer across two tree logs above the chasm. We are now used to canyon country, so to finally realize a beautiful alpine climate just outside the Grand Staircase is an incredible juxtaposition of terrain - further proof of the wonder of southern Utah.
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Old 06-18-2018, 02:02 AM   #18
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We decided to go back to Boulder Mountain and try a different campground: Pleasant Creek. Sleeping in a tent is good for me: I go to bed, er...bag earlier and wake up to the birds singing. Going from living in 200 sf to 32 sf and waking up among the trees can be further evidence of the movement toward minimalism.

But then a nice hot shower in the Airstream back home reminds me I'm not a survivalist.
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My giant friends...Populus tremuloides, the quaking aspens.
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Beautiful pictures!

And, backpacking! Wow!

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