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I thought I would warm up once we ate dinner and went to bed, but... NO! It was the coldest night we have had so far.....there was ice in our water jug when we got up this morning (and a little bit of frost on the inside of the windshield!)
We said "Goodbye" to Zion this morning and headed to Kanab, Utah to try for a permit to hike to The Wave (a cool sand/rock formation out in the desert that they only issue 20 permits per day for hiking). The office that issues permits isn't open on the weekends (of course not), so that plan was out for now. Instead, we saw Pipe Springs National Monument was only about 20 miles away, so we headed out there to look around this afternoon.
It is an actual spring in the middle of the desert that was originally used by the Utah Paiute Indians and then taken over from them by the Mormon settlers, who built a fort complex over the spring and used the location to hide their plural wives and children from the authorities so the husbands wouldn't be arrested. In time, the location (40 acres of land) was designated as a U.S. national monument (the Mormons had already sold it to an individual) and the surrounding 120 square miles or so was designated as a Paiute Indian Reservation.
It wasn't what we were expecting to see, but it was very interesting anyway. We took the tour of the main fort house/buildings and then walked around the rest of the grounds. I learned some historical things that I had never heard about before, which is always fun.
We are staying in a hotel (using free points again) tonight. We did all of our laundry since we left home almost a month ago and are now completely up to date with the blog again-----INCLUDING PHOTOS!
Not sure where we will head tomorrow, but I wish everyone a Happy Easter and we'll write again as soon as we can.
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