We decide to get up early leaving the camper at the campground and do the one hour drive to see the condors. What we didn’t account is the time different between Arizona and Utah. Arizona does not do daylight savings time. The couple from yesterday said the condors start to fly around 9:30 AM. Well, that’s 9:30 Arizona Time while Kanab’s time is 10:30. We need to be back at the campground, hitch up the camper, and checkout by 11 AM. We arrive at 8 AM Kanab time yet that’s 7 AM for the condors. There are no birds to be seen nor do we see anybody else. After an hour of looking and waiting we are rewarded in seeing roughly 10 condors on the ledges high up on the cliffs. They are breathtaking. In 1982 only 22 California Condors remained in the World. All were captures and a captive breeding program was started. Ones raised in captivity are released either in California or where we are now. There are between 400 and 500 condors alive today. The most exciting part of this story is condors are now beginning to successful breed and raise young in the wild.
We return to Kanab, checkout, get supplies and are on the road again. Our route takes us by Bryce Canyon National Park which we decide to bypass. We were there two years ago at this time of year plus today is National Parks Day were all the National Parks are free today. We take Utah 12 through some amazing landscapes and are now camped in Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument.
Seeing North America 