Utah– category –

After Thor's fireworks and Hispanic pastries, it was time to hustle West, through Nevada, and start the drive North to Seattle.  We weren't quite done with Utah, however, as we had to make a quick stop at the border with Nevada for the s...

Though we saw many more, the bizarre hoodoos of the oil fields proved to be our goodbye to the majestic rocks of the Southwest.  We did stop for camping on the way West, but nothing as intimate of post-worthy as what we had experienced o...

Blown away by the rock wall of dinos, we headed back into Utah to see a place that Shiz marked on the map a long time ago, Fantasy Canyon.  Neither of us could really remember much about the place, save that when Shiz was doing research ...

We left our camping site outside of Natural Bridges and headed South on Route 261 back towards Arizona.  It's a pleasant if uneventful stretch of road that connects to Route 163, running mostly straight through trees and across dry river...

We had seen arches and we had seen canyons, but we had yet to see a bridge proper.  The difference between a bridge and an arch is that a bridge forms over a river, where an arch does not.  It might seem like semantics - I thought so at ...

Having seen the space in the rocks, we figured that we'd go see the space around the rocks and check out Canyonlands.  A lot of people probably call it the little Grand Canyon, but the experience and feeling of the two are very different...

After walking through the little goblin village, it was time for us to move onto another area of high fame, Arches and Moab.  Coming in from the North, we found a RV park with some space and planned our trek for the next morning up the b...

After one of the more memorable falls we had seen in a while, we decided to venture on towards Arches and Moab instead of visiting them later.  We drove and drove through the gorgeous country that nigh all of Utah, enjoying our ride and ...

After making sure that our last road hadn't knocked out any fillings, we drove out to a very popular campground by Calf Creek Falls.  The falls are right off of 12 and the hike is relatively flat, so it's a popular place to stop, camp, a...

With some glorious canyons fresh in our minds, we headed further down road 12 to the area's main draw, Hole-in-the-Rock road.  The local town, Escalante, is a great place to gather information, stock up, and rest for the roughest, more t...

With our closeness to hoodoos achieved, it was time to follow 12 even further East, towards the Grand Staircase National Monument.  We wanted to visit Zebra Canyon, but we were sure that there were other things in store for us on the way...

So with the Western stop of Highway 12 behind us, we continued on down highway 12 for more adventures and nature. Red Rocks Our first stop on the road East was Red Rocks.  It's right there off the road, provides a nice stop, and marks th...

Completely blow away by Antelope Canyon, we changed course, heading into Utah and towards the famed route 12.  We were naturally very excited for this leg of the journey, because this area of the USA is simply famous for national parks t...