Utah

Thursday, we drove Interstate 70 from Palisade, outside Grand Junction, across the magnificent badlands west of Green River to Richfield, perhaps our son's favorite drive. South on Highway 89 through Panguich, then to the KOA in Cannonville, Utah, just outside Kodachrome Basin State Park; according to the abundance charts, the heaviest concentration of juniper titmouse on the planet.

Friday morning. Up early for four hours of birding in perfect juniper titmouse habitat. The results? We listed twenty-five birds, some really neat for us, like ash-throated flycatcher, golden eagle, and chukar....., but no juniper titmouse. Not this trip. Loved Kodachrome Basin.

Friday afternoon, on the move again, around the north side of Zion, over the mountains on highwy 20, south on Interstate 15 past Cedar City, Saint George, through the Virgin River Gorge, into Nevada to Desert Skies RV Park in Mesquite, nicely set up for an early arrival Saturday in Las Vegas tomorrow for the conference.