Our new plan for sleeping in the tent on cold nights was a fiasco! Elise woke up in the morning with a really bad headache and nausea. I immediately applied first aid by rushing her to the nearest restaurant for the healing balm of a cup of coffee, but even this didn't help. We drove back to the campsite, which by now had warmed up considerably, and Elise stretched out in the tent and slept.
When she awoke, she was considerably better, and we were able to do two short hikes at Kodachrome. The Angels' Palace Trail took us up and down among the hoodoos and had some wonderful views similar to what we had seen in Bryce. The second trail was a nature trail which identified some of the flowers and trees in the area. I can now identify rabbit brush, which is a bushy yellow flower that seems to grow almost everywhere along the roads, roundleafed buffalo berry, which has pale green leaves also on a bushy plant, Indian paintbrush, and the yucca plant.
Our next priority was to find a place to sleep for the next few nights until we reached a location where the elevation was lower, the night temperature was higher, and the price wasn't extravagant. After checking at a few places, we finally settled on a cabin in a KOA "Kampground" . For $50.00, it came with a bed, a desk, a porch with a swing, a picnic table, a view of surrounding cliffs, free WIFI, and most important, a heater.
I made us a spaghetti dinner at the picnic table and we called it a night - a very comfortable night in a warm room. I probably wouldn't have done this if Elise didn't absolutely require it, but I'm not complaining.
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