Traveling with the Munschs

Monday, June 18, 2018

Great Basin National Park Pictures

Our forth stop was Great Basin National Park. It wasn't a log drive to Great Basin so we slept in and didn't hurry out of our campsite in Salt Lake City. It wasn't until we were well down the road that we remembered we didn't have reservations and should have hit the road earlier but didn't give it much of a second thought as we were sure we'd be fine. We continued deeper into desert terrain and I made a big deal about getting on the Loneliest Road in America. Which wasn't all that lonely, we saw quite a few cars and Lucas made sure to point out how it didn't really seem that lonely. As you know from Becky's post that we had a bit of a freak out when the first two of the three campgrounds were full for the night but we got lucky and snagged one of the last three sites available at the Baker Creek Campground. The spot wasn't great during the day as it was full sun but at night it allowed for unobstructed viewing of the night sky which was spectacular. Marcus and Lucas had fun playing by Baker Creek which was just a ways down the road from our site. It was rushing too much to get in but they had fun throwing in pine cones from one side of the road and watching them come out the other side of the culverts. The first full day there we did a 5 mile hike to the bristle cone pines and rock glacier. It was a beautiful and interesting hike that went mostly well, just fell apart a little on the decent. The next day we took a tour of the Lehman Caves and hit up the visitors center. I didn't get to hike Wheeler's Peak but I ever get back there I'm going to be sure to make it happen.

Lucas at Bakers Creek

Our Campsite

Marcus' PERFECT Smore

Becky reading in the camper

The hike to the Bristle cones and rock glacier

At the bristle cone pines

On to rock glacier

Made it to the glacier

Amazing views

Now for the decent

A shot of our campsite in full sun

View for the Vistor center

Reading time

Another shot of our campsite and reading time

A Beetle. Took the picture because they must have interesting beetles here there was a 3 day beetle convention going on while we were there... yes three days

Sunday, June 17, 2018

Antelope Island Pictures

Here are my pictures from our stop at Antelope Island State Park in the Great Salt Lake. We've been without service for a while and I'm falling behind Becky a bit here so I need to try to get caught up. The drive was pretty quick to Salt Lake City, traffic got a little crazy when we got into the city but we got to our campsite at Bridger Bay and setup and since we had a lot of the day remaining and it was in the 90's we headed right to the beach down the road to take a dip. It was disgusting, just nasty, the lake was like a sheet of glass and there were bugs and some sort of grim floating everywhere. The bugs were really bad at the shore but once you got out a few yards it wasn't a massive swarm. We had to walk out a long ways so we couldn't touch to get the full effect of just how floaty it was, we were like corks it was fun and made the nasty part bearable.
The next day we drove around the island and checked out some of the sites. Then when we got to the afternoon we stopped by the beach buffalo burger joint and had some burgers and then went swimming again. Today it was hot but also windy which if you ask me is the way to swim in the salt lake, the bugs were down to just a small band at the shore and all the grim and muck from the day before was pushed out by the waves. Beside getting a mouth full of salt water from a wave now and again it was great.
Our last day I took a 5 mile out and back hike along the lake shore that stared from our campground. It was a easy hike over some rocky terrain. Later that day we went to town to do laundry and grab some groceries. Anyway here are the pictures from our stop in SLC.