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We are done with our roadtrip! Well, I'm still in California for a couple more days, but Tanika is now back in Washington. Below was our final itinerary. We had a really great time, and pictures are on the web.

http://www.shadlen.org/~maria/pmwiki/Pics/SWtrip09

The times are approximate driving times, but we found them to be pretty close.

Current tentative itinerary:

• June 27th, AM: Fly to Salt Lake City, drive to Vernal (~3 hour drive)
• June 28th - July 2nd Yampa River Trip
• July 2nd - July 4th Timpanagos Cave National Monument,
  • July 3rd - Timpanagos Visitor's Center, 9am, will have tickets there, take jacket and water
  • visit caves and hiked to Silver Lake
  • http://www.utah.com/provo/hiking_trails.htm
• July 4th Dinosaur museum
• July 5th - return to Salt Lake City, Mormon Temple, David flies back to Seattle 3:10pm
• July 5th from Salt Lake City to Bryce, 4 hrs, 2 nights
• July 7th 2 hrs to Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, 3 nights
• July 9th Capitol Reef 2 hrs, afternoon, drove on to Moab
• July 10th Moab 2:30 hrs, 2-3 nights Arches and Canyonlands
• July 14th Canyonlands
• July 17th Mesa Verde 2 hrs, 1 night
• July 18th Four Corners 1 hr
• July 18th Monument Valley 2 hrs, 1 night
• July 19th Page 2 hrs, 2 nights (Antelope Canyon)
• July 21st Vermillion Cliffs 1 hr, 1 night (Buckskin Gulch)
• July 22nd Grand Canyon 2 hrs, 1 night
• July 23nd Zion 3 hrs, 2 nights
• July 25th - 8 hrs to Bakersfield 2 nights (visit Pat & clan)
• July 27th - 4:30 hrs to Bay area, hang out here and Davis rest of trip
• July 30th - Tanika returns to Seattle from SF (6:05PM), I hang out in bay area and Davis, visit friends
• August 5th - I return to Salt Lake City and fly home (flight is Aug. 6th 11:14AM)

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