Home At Last

We finally rolled in at 8 oclock last night after 26 (19 for Brendan and I) glorious day of road tripping. The final photo count is an absolutely shocking 3,500. Oi. If I edit and put them into a photobook at the rate of 10 a day, I should have all my photos archived and presentable in... a year. Sweet heaven above.

So my plan for tonight was to cull out the one best photo from each day to post up here. I couldn't do it. So I at least made it through the first four days - the first phase of our trip together - Zion National Park in Springdale Utah, in the south west of the state. An awe inspiring place with red and orange sheer, jagged mountains rising all around you, and an oasis of a river running through the bottom of the canyon. We did a few hikes here, and also spent one day doing a day trip to the north rim of the Grand Canyon. If i keep talking I'll never get these photos up, so here goes...

Flying over the Rockies

Cruising The Strip in Las Vegas

Valley of Fire State Park - a hike and picnic lunch on our drive from Nevada to the campground in Utah

The drive through Valley of Fire

The paved bike trail through Zion National Park

 

 

The view from the top of a the Canyon Overlook hike Rob did on his own - he is standing on top of a stone arch you'll see in another picture shortly - the road in the distance is an amazing set of switchbacks coming out of the Zion Mt. Carmel tunnel - one of Rob's favourite drives of the trip

Our home away from home, and the campsite with the best view on the whole trip

Another spectacular hike in Zion National Park, alongside the river in the ever narrowing carnyon. The trail eventually became JUST the river, and advised people continuing on the "wet hike" that there was a flash flood warning of MODERATE on for that day. Thank you, no. We thought that was a good place to turn around.

One of the breath taking view points along the Grand Canyon (the small peninsula in the distance is where we hiked out to)

The Grand Canyon. Wow.

The drive back from the Grand Canyon through Zion to our campground - this is the arch Rob hiked to the top of!

Our second day in Zion we hiked up to a waterfall and spotted lots of lizards

Roasting weenies!

The next installment - hitting the road for Bryce Canyon National Park, Escalante National Monument, Capitol Reef National Park, Goblin Valley State Park and Little Wild Horse Canyon - and that's just two days. You can see why I took 3,500 photos!