We're in the PINK!

A really nasty road brings us to a really nice campground in Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park. It is amazing to find huge dunes of very fine soft sand in this area surrounded by pine trees and red rock cliffs. This is where many movies thought to be filmed in the Sahara Desert have actually been filmed ( Lawrence of Arabiaand  Arabian Nights just to name a couple.) I hope to be able to post pictures when I get a good WIFI connection because it is truly a sight to behold. Every day they change because of the wind and footprints are never on the dunes for more than a day. They encourage you to bring a jar of sand from your “home town” which they keep in the visitor center.  There are jars from all over the world and you just can’t believe how many different colors there are out there!  But here they are definitely Coral colored. Unless you are Bill.  Then you think they are GOLD. But I have to remind him how often he is sent back to the dresser to get a pair of socks that match so we take his color wheel with a grain of salt…or SAND as the case might be. Anyway, you can walk all over them (Rufus too!) and it’s warm and soft….and good for the calf muscles!

We spent 1 full day in the town of Kanab visiting museums, historical homes and chatting with local historians.  We had no idea you could spend an entire day in this tiny town and still not see it all. We were able to tie it all in to Lex Chamberlain , who we met at Moqui Cave (see previous post),  and his family so we felt we had a complete picture of one of the founding families of this area. Kanab is also known as “Little Hollywood” because of all of the movies and TV shows filmed here. We went through Parry’s Lodge which is the place where all of the old time movie stars stayed…complete with their autographed photos and names above the rooms they slept in. Sammy Davis, Jr., Arlene Dahl, Ronnie Reagan,Frank Sinatra, John Wayne, Omar Shariff (sp? Sorry Omar), Dean Martin…well, more than you can imagine. It was a good day.

Tomorrow we will do some sand dune hiking and then prepare to head to Jacob Lake on Thursday for a few days where I can get some laundry done (fun) and hopefully have some good WIFI so I can post