Days #534-540 of Our Epic Trip

4-19-2025
H: 57ºF L: 30ºF
Boondocking, Hog Canyon, BLM Land, Kanab, Utah

Today is a travel day! Before we left Page, AZ, we walked on the bridge overlooking the Glen Canyon Dam. We found a free visitor center and dinosaur tracks next to the dam although we didn’t go in. We also saw beautiful Evening Primrose flowers near our camper.

We drove into Utah to boondock in Kanab, UT. It’s a beautiful area. As usual, our drive was perfect and it was hard not to marvel at this awesome life we are living. Retired and our home is where we park it! Our options are limitless!

We are camping on BLM land right next to a river with views of cliffs. I have wanted to go to Kanab, UT and Best Friends Animal Sanctuary for years so I’m so excited to be here!

Once we got set up, we went back into Kanab to drop one of the cars off at the charger. We also stopped at Best Friends Roadhouse and Mercantile. It’s a hotel which is very dog friendly and offers a dog park including an area for dogs who like to be by themselves, a dog wash, splash pad, and dog beds. It’s run by Best Friends Animal Sanctuary.

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4-20-2025
H: 66°F L: 32°F
Boondocking, Hog Canyon, BLM Land, Kanab, Utah

Happy Easter or 420 Day, whatever your particular persuasion is. We celebrated by having lunch at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary’s Angel Village Cafe where they offer a vegan buffet for $5. Today was meatball subs (Morning Star), potato salad, pasta salad, salad bar, and dessert. It was so good! The cafe is perched on a cliff and offers beautiful views. We enjoyed watching a beautiful bird looking for dropped morsels.

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4-21-2025
H: 70ºF L: 36ºF
Boondocking, Hog Canyon, BLM Land, Kanab, Utah

We went back to Angel Village Cafe for another $5 vegan buffet. It was so good! Daniel and I eat breakfast and dinner but don’t usually eat lunch so this will be our main meal for the day.

After lunch, we took the boys for a walk on a trail overlooking the canyon. Best Friends Animal Sanctuary has opened up their land for visitors to respectfully enjoy the natural beauty.

We took a Grand Tour of the sanctuary. The founders, a group of animal lovers, pooled their money to buy 3000 acres in 1984 and started building the sanctuary using Time Life how-to books to build the facilities. The sanctuary now owns 3700 acres and leases another 33,000 acres from the Bureau of Land Management in an effort to provide a safe place for both domestic and wild animals.

Most people taking the tour ride in a van with the tour guide but, since we had the boys with us, we followed behind in our car and tuned into their radio station to hear the tour guide. We stopped in Cattown at one of the cat houses and met some adorable cats who have a large indoor/outdoor area to roam and do cat things.

We also stopped to meet the pot bellied pigs and give them some scratches. They were very relaxed and seemed to really enjoy the attention.

On our way home, we checked out other BLM boondocking spots and found a site next to this cool alcove in the rocks.

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4-22-2025
H: 72ºF L: 40ºF
Boondocking, Hog Canyon, BLM Land, Kanab, Utah

We went back to the Angel Village Cafe for lunch. You just can’t beat a $5 vegan buffet!

One of the initiatives of Best Friends is to have all the shelters in the US be no kill by 2025. The following statistic is hopeful but there is obviously still a long way to go:

In 2016, around 2 million cats and dogs were killed in shelters across the country. That number is now down to about 425,000 per year. (Best Friends Animal Sanctuary)

One thing individuals can do is “Adopt, Don’t Shop”. Find your next furry family member at a shelter or rescue group.

We drove around the sanctuary to see more of the animals and the sanctuary. There is a big pet cemetery, ancient rock carvings, hiking trails, and an old barn used in the Disney movie One Little Indian.

Next we stopped at Kanab Dinosaur Tracks. They were a little hard to find and the trail was a little dangerous. We saw pretty flowers and someone had helpfully marked the tracks by surrounding them with rocks.

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4-23-2025
H: 63ºF L: 38ºF
Boondocking, Dixie National Forest, Bryce Canyon City, Utah

We stopped at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary on our way to our next destination to do a little more exploring. The natural amphitheater, which they use for events, is really neat with a natural spring running through it.

We also had lunch at Angel Village Cafe while our truck charged. Best Friends has free EV chargers all over their sanctuary. They also have neat statues all over.

We drove to Bryce Canyon National Park and found a free boondocking spot at Dave’s Hollow in Dixie National Forest. You must camp in designated sites but they are mostly spaced far apart. After setting up, we took the boys for a walk.

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4-24-2025
H: 63°F L: 3°F
Boondocking, Dixie National Forest, Bryce Canyon City, Utah

We explored Bryce Canyon National Park. I probably took too many pictures but it was so pretty. You could see for 80+ miles. We didn’t do any hiking because the popular Wall St. trail was closed and there were a LOT of people visiting the park.

The hoodoos (tall, thin spires of eroded rock) were spectacular. I always think about what the thoughts were of those who discovered unusual landscapes such as this.

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4-25-2025
H: 55ºF L: 41ºF
Boondocking, Fishlake National Forest, Torrey, Utah

We took the boys for a walk before leaving for our next destination. This national forest is so pretty and we have really enjoyed our time here.

We stopped at Mossy Cave in Tropic, UT on our way to our next destination. The area was pretty although I felt the Mossy Cave was a little underwhelming.

We highly recommend driving Scenic Byway 12 in Utah which takes you through Dixie National Forest. The scenery was spectacular with red, grey, and white cliffs and rock formations to mountainous evergreen forests. One stretch of the road is on the ridge line of a mountain with steep drop offs on either side. The ridge top was barely wide enough for the road. Both Daniel and I felt queasy driving on that part of the road. I had both hands white-knuckled on the steering wheel; otherwise, I would have taken a picture.

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Stats

Expenses:

• Tesla Cybertruck fuel: $0
• Tesla Model X fuel: $0
• Campsite: $0
• Camping memberships: $38.26
• Food: $161.08

Tesla Cybertruck miles driven: 198.3 (156.5 kWh)

Tesla Model X miles driven: 455.6 (126.8 kWh)

Number of people asking about the Tesla pulling the camper: 0

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