After an interesting morning departure from the Sedona area, we made our way up to Lake Powell, just outside of Page, Arizona. Lake Powell is ginormous. Little known fact: Lake Powell’s total shoreline can measure from nearly 2,000 miles, using fairly standard measuring techniques, to infinity using an infinitely small unit of measure. We spent 4 nights here, and 1 full day on a boat in the water. After Lake Powell, we stayed a few nights in Kanab, Utah.<\/p>\n
The first step in leaving the Sedona area if you are heading north is to crawl your way out of the Oak Creek Canyon. It’s not crazy steep in most places, but it is long. While Vicaribus does love climbing hills for long periods of time, sometimes he tries too hard and clogs his fuel filter with rust from the diesel tank in the process. We then have to pull over and feed him a new fuel filter to coax him to continue. Thankfully this time we made just to the top of the canyon before having to go through this ritual. It is a ritual that I thought we had down to a 5 minute ordeal, but this time it didn’t go so well and we got too much air in the diesel line, which meant an hour or so of priming and general fiddling to get it running again.\u00a0 But, this actually this ended up being fortuitous. To quote Tombstone (a top 5 Nick movie), “That means lucky.”<\/p>\n
We happened to pull over in a large scenic view parking lot at the top of the canyon, where a lovely representative of Sunflair Solar Ovens<\/a> walked over to see if she could get some shots with an oven and the bus. Of course we said yes, and then after a bit of chatting and explanation of our predicament, we now have (had, but will have again (keep reading)) one, as she donated one of the ovens to our cause! I had actually looked into these, but never pulled the trigger. They are really cool (or hot i guess), and fold up nice and small.<\/p>\n The rest of the ride to Lake Powell was pretty uneventful. You can see it here in one of our latest Quick Run videos<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>