More Photos!

This is Devin our friendly couch surfer friend and one of his three puppies we stayed with in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Our view from breakfast in Page, AZ.

Some good ol' fashioned pinball in Pheonix, AZ.

Chillin in the orb yard in the back of our friends house in Pheonix.  SAWEEET!!!!

Fivesday to ninesday!

ARIZONA! Finally we are somewhere warm! I busted out my sandals today for the first time.

On fivesday we passed away the day until Sarah arrived on the Greyhound back from Calgary and dealing with her passport issues. She had to apply for a new one and it was hectic but it seems like everything should work out. We got through the US border (although that was pretty nerve racking) and that was monumental for us! We drove through the night until about 7am. Slept a couple hours and drove all day till we arrived at Salt Lake City at 9pm on sixday. We stayed with a couchsurfer host (thanks Devin and puppies!) we were thankful to sleep inside as it was pretty chilly that night. He helped us get up early and we drove all day to get to Arizona.

 So grateful we got up early because we drove through Zion National Park just as the sun was setting. So beautiful! I wanted to go another route that was shorter but missed the turn off but I'm so glad because that meant we drove through this park! First time seeing a red road.

Drove on into a little town Page, Arizona. Slept in a Wal Mart parking lot again and woke up to this view>
Mini Grand Canyon!

This day we drove to Flagstaff, Arizona where Wal Mart employees helped us out to run an extension cord out their door so we could plug in for the night and use a heater!!! That saved our butt since it was super cold and snowy. I never thought we'd see snow in Arizona! Flagstaff is just super high elevation. We drove down from here to Sedona, Arizona. Took a nice hike around Bell Rock to an area with a calming energy vortex. More pics to come from that. We are now in Pheonix staying with some cool cats in an artsy funky communal house. Woke up to plus 22 degrees, we have now officially broken out our shorts!!
Life is hard.

FOURSDAY!

 Callisto Journeys Crew!

Sean, Jenni, Sarah & Eric

 View of the front of house

Back of house. PIMP MOBILE!

So here we are... today is foursday and we have been delayed in Lethbridge since onesday! We got to the border late onesday night and they took us into a locked cage to ask us questions. We were all silently freaking out wondering who was in trouble and why. It ended up that Sarah brought her passport she reported lost or stolen years ago. Once they figured out it was her own passport they were going to let her into the States anyways but we decided to drive back to Lethbridge so we could get a valid passport for her so we could go further than the States. We parked and slept in a Wal-Mart parking lot which was SO cold because of the insane wind here and the van is super drafty! The next night (twosday!) we parked our van in the backyard of a friend of Sarah's (thanks Trisha!)which blocked us from the wind and was much warmer. On threesday we met up with an wonderful couchsurfer Holly at the Penny coffee shop for a nice chat and coffee. Put Sarah on a Greyhound back to Calgs to deal with getting a valid passport. She's going to apply and come back to us tonight and we'll drive to Salt Lake City overnight. We'll get down to Arizona where we'll wait until her mom gets her passport and she will mail it to where we are. Might as well pass the time somewhere warm! Didn't get very far.... and we're trudging through much adversity to go on this trip, but nothing good comes for free. The beach and Callisto Crew are destined to be together!!