Another Giant Hole : Utah Lotsa Parks, part 3

Day 4 : Scenic road of DOOM and Canyonlands, Island in the Sky

This was the plan: take the scenic drive to Canyonlands and the highway back to Moab. That way we’d see more of the landscape than if we took the same road in and out. Much later, when we were ashen and still shaking and talking to a couple about how they looked up on YouTube a particular road they were thinking of driving, I had the clichéd palm-meet-face moment. Before that day, to me “scenic drive” has meant any or all of the following

• paved or level dirt/gravel
• curvy
• slight hills
• nice vistas

To people who didn’t grow up in Flatlander, USA, scenic drives consist of

• deep sand/gravel/dirt/half-buried boulders/washouts
• hairpin turns
• insane grades
• “Can’t look at the vistas, too busy focusing only on a spot 5 feet in front of the bumper to impede vertigo.”

Here’s how it all played out.

Another Giant Hole : Utah Lotsa Parks, part 2

Day 3 : Arches National Park

We got our Camelbaks filled (they recommend 1gal/per person a day) and headed out to Arches. It was a hot, amazing, and WINDY day. Forewarning, this post is image heavy. I got seriously trigger-happy.

Another Giant Hole : Utah Lotsa Parks, part 1

So it begins…
The main motivation for this blog was the latest trip I took with my friend Dan where we went to Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico, visited 9 National Parks, a bunch of National Monuments, and logged 5649 miles. The theme of the trip emerged over time, which was that essentially what we were seeing were a lot of giant holes in the ground. Neat.

Also, I’m still learning my way around this whole Blogger thing, so bear with me…

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