A day of two halves. In the morning we took the shuttle bus to Bryce Point: the southern-most point the suttle will go – and walked back to Inspiration Point (couple of miles) along the rim (the trail was called…
Category: USA Road Trip
The journey to Bryce Canyon today was a nice relief from the desert as we headed over and through the Dixie National Forest via Highway 12. Part of the forest was still on fire and there were fire warnings throughout…
So…. due to popular demand, I (Rachel) will be writing todays blog 🙂 I apologise now to all fans of Andrew’s blogs as mine will definitely be the dumbed down version!!! No big words and no arty farty descriptions of…
Lazy start to the day as we were not in any particular rush to set off. Half the journey would be back in the same direction we came in to Monument Valley, via Bluff. The GPS said we should take…
Our tour of Monument Valley began at 8:45am. We were the only people on the small, converted 4 wheel drive truck when we set off but the driver stopped to pick up a group of people at Goulding’s Lodge, only…
Our second National Park in Utah was Canyonlands. This was further away than Arches but took only approx 1 hour to get there. Canyonlands covers a very big area and only a part of it is accessible by normal vehicles.…
We felt quite sad leaving Moab this morning. It’s the sort of place you feel you can spend more time just chillin’. One guide book says it’s the only town in Utah were you will not feel you’ve seen the…
We arrived at Drift Adventures at 8am and were given life jackets and an army-style metal can to keep our belongings in. We were then loaded onto a bus that looked like something out of an Indiana Jones movie, with…
Following the morning rafting adventure we got lunch in Moab: After changing we set off for Dead Horse Point. This is where Thelma and Louise (for those who have seen this great movie) drove over the cliff at the end.…