I think most followers of this site knows about the annual Southern Utah Tour. Several years ago we created a
rally where we would meet and travel together to three of Utah’s beautiful national parks. At first there were only a few that wanted to participate – maybe three or four. However, as these participants went to other rallies and talked about the fun we had it became more and more popular until now when we have to turn away more than those we can accept as a manageable number of 15 rigs. We have now included all five of Utah’s national parks.
There will be no hookups (except for electricity at the last campsite) for the entire trip. Some will be pure
boondocking. It is a fun trip where you will meet others and make lasting friendships. If you don’t know, don’t miss this opportunity, to learn how to boondock successfully. We have several folks who want to go again and again.
Everyone has a GPS and atlas and can easily find their way to all these beautiful parks. What we do is not only visit all the parks but we are with 16 other persons or couples of like mind and with whom they already share some preferences. Also we don’t travel from place to place by the most direct way but by the most interesting and scenic roads. Some of our camping places are well “off the beaten path”. We go to places that most Utah visitors never see nor know about. The casual visitor would not chance taking the time to find these places even if they knew about them. They would most likely “go with the crowd”. After participating in a Southern Utah Tour you will have seen a good part of the southern part of the state. Certainly enough to mark it off your bucket list. We go from one campsite to the next via paved roads. However, we do lead participants on side trips to places that can only be reached by dirt / gravel roads where there are points of interest and beauty you would not see otherwise. We’re not talking about four wheeling.
All the places we go can be easily reached by any production two wheel drive pickup or SUV that has not been intentionally lowered. By going to these places you will get some dust on your $50,000, 500 horsepower truck but all is not lost. We have located car washes for you. Sometime we will pass over a section of road that may have significant wash boarding but your vehicle will easily handle it. If it can’t you probably shouldn’t drive it to Utah with a trailer behind you.
We want folks to come on the tour who want to see more than what the beautiful parks offer. This has never been the type of gathering where we park the trailer, roll out the carpet and
awning or set up the auxiliary shelters, the imitation flower pots and pink flamingos and sit down. It was designed for the young at heart and curious of mind who wants to see and do more. In the evening we will sit around the campfire and chat or listen to someone entertain by whatever means. In the mornings we will either be visiting the local park(s) or taking a side trip we have planned for you.
I have noted that since we posted the announcement for the 2017 tour, there have been over 4000 views of the announcement. So it is apparent that there is still interest in becoming a part of the tour. Because there are so many folks who are interested in coming along we worked out a method of selecting participants based upon the clock. This is how it works.
At exactly midnight on 31 October 2017 Mountain Time the
registration will open. No
registration will be accepted before that time. The clock on your computer screen will create a “postmark” on your
registration email to me. Last year we had received emails with the requested information (see below) to fill our 15 slots plus 5 alternates by 0001 1 November 2016 so you must be quick. We have alternates to fill in a vacant slot if, and when, someone already selected has to cancel out.
The registration email from those interested must contain the following information in the following order.
1. Your name(s). Don and Betsy Taylor
2. The town (city) where you live. Salt Lake City, UT
3. An email address that you check frequently.
dtaylor@sisna.com
4. Your home telephone number. 801-***-4979
5. Your travel (cell phone) number (can be the same). 801-***-4979
6. Year, make and color of your tow vehicle. 4x4? ’98 Toyota Tacoma Sunburst Red 4x4
We don’t need any other information from you until later but we want your initial registration request to contain all that information and in that order. The information we ask for does not determine if you get a slot or not. It is the information I need about those who are within the earliest 20 post marks.
This is the only fair way to conduct the registration that I can think of since I know that there are more people that want to go than we have slots for. All you have to do is create an email addressed to me with the above information in the text. When the clock on your computer reads exactly midnight and the date reads 11/1/ 2017 Mountain Time, click on “send”.
You must calculate when would be exactly midnight Mountain Time in your own time zone. For instance if you live in CA, midnight Mountain Time would occur at 11:00 PM your time. It does not matter that you are all the way on the east coast. The instant you hit “send” is the time of the postmark I get on your email to me.
We spend a tremendous amount of time and effort in making this rolling
rally enjoyable and memorable for the participants. We have done a pre-run of this tour, made numerous telephone calls and spent hours engaged in research and planning alternate campsites etc. When we go on the tour we will incur pet care costs, campsite fees and gasoline expenses as well. Therefore we are asking for a registration fee of $20 that will be refundable if, for any reason, you don’t go on the tour. This should cover our expenses.
For now I would like you to make a short post just to indicate your interest in coming on the tour. This will let us know about how many are interested.
Don in UT
Look at Al and Cindy K's photo memories of last year's tour.
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