Katie's Outdoor Adventures: Spring Break 2015: Day 7

I awoke at 7:35am to my tent attempting to flip since it was not staked down. Everyone else started waking up around the same time. I got ready, and then worked on loading the car (which always feels like a game of Tetris, and I wanted it to be well packed since we would be driving all the way back to Austin).

We left the camp site around 9:15am. The drive out of Zion was pretty - I really love Zion. The rocks and cliffs are so awesome! We drove an hour to get coffee and generally chill at Willow Canyon Outdoor in Kanab.

Once we hit the road again, we drove through Marble Canyon, where we were for most of last year's spring break trip. We stopped for a short break at the Navajo Bridge to take pictures. It really is such a pretty area with the Vermilion Cliffs towering high above.

I drove for a 4 hour stretch from Marble Canyon to the New Mexico state line. We had planned to eat lunch in Flagstaff, but instead decided to just eat gas station food. No one really seemed happy with this, but perhaps it was the best decision considering lunch in Flagstaff would have been a rather late lunch.

Emily finished the drive to Albuquerque. The participants in our car had picked a Thai place to eat for dinner. However, after we accidentally went to the wrong place since one of the participants had given me the incorrect street number, we stopped at another random Thai place. This place had a long wait though, so we decided to go to a New Mexican restaurant in the same shopping center. This ended up being a great decision, since the New Mexican food ended up being really good.

Sean, Brad, and Kelsey (other guides at UT who had went on a personal climbing spring break trip) slept on the floor in our rooms at the La Quinta (Kelsey in my room, Sean and Brad in the guys room). Although I hurried and took the first shower and got in bed at 10:15pm, I didn't actually fall asleep for another hour due to noise and talking. So it goes.