As we entered northern Arizona, after leaving Kanab, Utah we stopped at Jacob Lake Inn & Restaurant for a bite to eat. The young man serving us at the lunch counter said he was a BYU student from Monticello, Utah, getting ready to serve a mission. We learned he performed in the "King and I" with Terry's brother Reid. We almost always find a connection to someone we know when we ask a few questions during our stops at Jacob Lake and other places on the Arizona/Utah/Idaho trail.

Linda was not surprised when I stopped the car, after leaving Jacob Lake and took this picture, east from the overlook above Marble Canyon and the Vermilion Cliffs. One of my favorite sights in all the world. I am certain that I have featured another picture or two of this great open expanse in previous blogs. It is the land, vertually unchanged, that grandfather Jacob Hamblin traversed so many, many times on horseback as frontiersman, church representative and missionary to the Indian tribes of this region in the late 1800's.